Goolse Geheimen Paradise walk through the forests of Gorp and Roovert

Goirle, North Brabant, The Netherlands

Hiking route: 1031669

based on 4 reviews

Provided by: Vereniging Recreatie en Toerisme Goirle, Noord-Brabant

10.8 km
02:42 h
616 kcal
30 m

Description

This walk passes the following beautiful places:
1. Nature Gate
2. Climbing forest
3. The fussilade site
4. De Roovertsche Leij
5. The old bridge over the Leij
6. The Leenhof
7.'t Castle
8. The veranda
9. The New Hoof

This walk along Gool's secrets starts from the parking lot of the Roovertsche Leij. This nature gate is a beautiful place to start walks and bike rides. You can start immediately with a cup of coffee at Rob and Maud Mutsaers or only enjoy all the goodies they serve the guests at the end of the walk.

Climbing and Adventure Forest
We cross the wide sandy path and walk into the forest, on your left you will see the 2nd secret, the Climbing and Adventure forest of Martijn van Gool. Highly recommended for anyone who dares to climb high through the trees. It is a completely safe trail with professional guidance and even suitable for wheelchairs.
At the end turn left and then take the first sandy path on the right through a beautiful avenue with large old trees. At the end of this path we turn left, on our right we walk along a meadow, at the end of the meadow you come to a junction where we turn right, the first sandy path on the left leads us to the firing place.

Fusillade place
This is a special place, something to think about! 5 hostages were shot here by the German occupiers during the Second World War. It was an execution in retaliation for an attack by the Rotterdam resistance. 5 innocent people were murdered here on August 15, 1942 to ensure that people would not support the resistance. Forest ranger van Heerebeek discovered the fusillade at the time and, together with Mr van Puijenbroek, went to investigate when the Germans were gone. Only after the war was the grave excavated and the bodies recovered. The posts to which the hostages had been tied had also been thrown into the grave. These poles can still be viewed in the museum of 't Heem on the new Rielseweg.
The five hostages were: Mr Robert Baelde (35 years old), Willem Ruys (47 years old), Otto Ernst Gelder (49 years old), Christoffel Bennekers (48 years old) and Alexander, baron Schimmelpenninck van der Oije (29 years old). In August 1945, this image appeared in the Nieuwsblad van het Zuid to announce the grand wreath-laying ceremony that would take place the next day. We walk further and turn left at the fork and right at the intersection.

Paradise Bridge
We turn left over the bridge to follow the walking path along the Rovertsche Leij. This beautifully meandering river originates in Belgium and joins the Nieuwe Leij a little further on at Breehees. The river is still in a kind of primordial state. Not yet touched by human hands. At the end of the path you will arrive at the new cycle path and you will see the old bridge on your left, also called the paradise bridge.
Jan van Gorp
We follow the road to the right and keep left at the fork and see the Leenhof on our left where the van Gorp family once lived. A special one from Gorp was Ioannes Goropius Becanus (Jan van Gorp, 1519-1573). He was a humanist, linguist, philosopher and personal physician to the queens Eleanor of France and Mary of Hungary. He claimed that the Low German language was the oldest language in the world and that Adam and Eve had therefore spoken Antwerp in the earthly paradise. He worked on it in the tower of this farm. A facade stone refers to this scholar Ioannes Goropius Becanus.
That is why the bridge over the Rovertsche Leij is called the Paradijske, and that in the Nieuwe Hoef, where we will soon pass, a sign of the former border café't Paradijske - with Adam and Eve - is exhibited.

The castle
On your left you will see a beautiful castle, built as a hunting lodge in 1873 by Eugène de Zerezo, the Tejada, a son of a noble Spanish family. The current estate was created through the purchase of the farms on Roovert and the surrounding heathland. Het Kasteeltje is now owned by the Goirlese Van Puyenbroek textile manufacturer family,

Waranda
Opposite the castle we walk into the Waranda or Starrebosch. This forest was created by Cornelis Bles in 1770 in the form of a park with a diamond around the round pond, with an island with trees on top.
We walk back to Jan van Gorp's fiefdom and take the walking path to the left of the farm and walk again along the Rovertsche leij. After a few kilometers we leave the forest and see the meadows around the hamlet of Breehees. We take the sandy path to the left and cross the bridge. Then take the first path on the left into the forest. We keep left to arrive at the Nieuwe Hoef after a few kilometers.

New Hoof
There are many beautiful farms on the estate'Gorp en Roovert\\\', but hardly one like"de Nieuwe Hoef\\\'. A tenth farm dating from 1641, this is where the' used to be. tithes\\\' collected from the surrounding lands. In the past, every tenth sheaf of the produce of the land belonged to the landowner. These seasonal yields - harvests - were stored in the Nieuwe Hoef\\\'. This farm is of the long gable type with the bakehouse to the side, has always been kept intact and it still shows pride and even some majesty. The kitchen and'good room\\\' have been preserved, complete with original cupboards, box bed, stove and wall decorations and of course the poster child for the imagination of Adam and Eve in the Gorpse Paradijs. They are open on Saturdays and Sundays for walkers, cyclists and nature lovers. From 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Paradeske
At the end of the lane you will see on the left the house that was built for the forester and at the very end where we turn left onto the cycle path back to the street point, the farm inn'het Paradijske\\\' once stood. . The café was completely destroyed by lightning in 1912.
Have fun walking
Niek Schenning
Chairman of the Recreation and Tourism Association
Restaurant Arable farming, pasture or grassland Forest Cultural routes Nature Route Nature gate

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Directions

# Description Distance
Natuurpoort De Roovertsche Leij (Gorps Baantje, 5051 PX, Goirle, North Brabant, The Netherlands) 0.00 km
63
63 (5051PX, Goirle, North Brabant, The Netherlands) 0.27 km
69
69 (5051PX, Goirle, North Brabant, The Netherlands) 0.86 km
3
3 (5051DZ, Goirle, North Brabant, The Netherlands) 1.58 km
2
2 (Gorp, 5081NA, Hilvarenbeek, North Brabant, The Netherlands) 2.37 km
91
91 (North Brabant, The Netherlands) 2.83 km

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