Strabrechtse & Somerse heide

STRABRECHTSE HEIDE Based on https://www.route.nl/fietsroute/115405/fietsen-over-de-strabrechtse-heide recorded on 20 August 2019 / https://www.routeyou.com/nl-nl/route/view/6536761/recreatieve-fietsroute/strabrechtse-heide Checked on 5 September 2020

THIS HAS ANOTHER EXTENSION OVER THE SOMERSE HEIDE

The Strabrechtse Heide is one of the most beautiful heathlands in North Brabant. You will experience plenty of silence here. In between you go to Heeze. Here you can get off at Tapperij De Zwaan for a coffee with something tasty, before you drive to Heeze Castle. This moated castle is located in a beautiful place and is a real photo opportunity.

South of the Strabrechtse Heide lies the Keelven on the Somerense Heide. This used to be a large heathland and ran from the Strabrechtse Heide via the Pan to the Weerterbos. As with many areas, and this area as well, these were formerly transformed into production forests for mining. But since the closure of the mines, people have regained an eye for nature and these production forests are being transformed into mixed forests and small-scale heaths with fens. On the basis of the natural relief, the fens have been restored and thus the Keelven and a number of small fens 'have been created'

Then you cycle past the Strabrechtse Heide again. You pass the Hoenderboom, where the boundaries of five surrounding municipalities once came together. Nearby you can see the Grafven, it is said that a number of women were murdered here at the end of the sixteenth century on charges of witchcraft. In Lierop you will pass the striking Holy Name Jesus Church from 1892, the route ends at the carpool of Lierop / Sommeren

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