Tour of Zwillbrocker Venn from Winterswijk

Your route starts at Restaurant De Voortwisch. First you make a round trip to Willinks Weust. The groundwater remains in the calcareous soil and that provides a lot of variation. You see beautiful deciduous forests full of plants and animals, from oak-hornbeam forests to old oak forests. On car-free roads you cycle through a small-scale landscape of winding streams, woods, fields and hedgerows. Time stands still here. Just over the border you cycle through the rough swamp of the Zwillbrocker Venn, one of the oldest nature reserves in Germany. This is the northernmost breeding ground for flamingos in Europe, you can spot them between March and June. On the way back you pass the recreational lake't Hilgelo. Here you discover the Sevink Mölle, a round stone belt mill from 1867.