Hoge Veluwe

The Hoge Veluwe National Park is in several ways a unique Dutch nature reserve. It is not only one of the oldest national parks in the Netherlands, it is one of the largest lowland nature areas in Northwest Europe, especially if we include the other nature reserves of the Veluwe. In addition, there is a lot of space in the national park for cultural-historical elements, for architecture and visual arts.

The area that now forms De Hoge Veluwe owes its status to the Kröller-Müller couple who bought it in 1909 as an estate with the main function of providing a hunting ground. For hunting, mouflons, wild boars and red deer were released and even kangaroos for some time. Forest exploitation also continued. When the couple ran into financial problems in the early thirties, an attempt was made to sell the estate to Natuurmonumenten. This failed, after which the Empire provided the necessary 1000,000 guilders to buy the area from Anton Kröller in 1935.

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