Local & Tasty Route

Het Hogeland, Groningen, The Netherlands

Cycling route: 117898

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Provided by: VVV

51.4 km
03:01 h
905 kcal
3 m

Description

Winding roads, small wierde villages and old mills. Originally the region in Central Humsterland focused mainly on agriculture, but gradually it became more and more a commuter municipality for the nearby city capital of our northernmost province. The municipality also contains the old Middag and Humsterland cultural landscapes, with the area around and above the village of Oldenhove even being the oldest cultural landscape in Western Europe. National Landscape Midden-Humsterland is characterized by natural and cultural-historical landscape elements such as wierden, salt marshes and dikes. The plots of the agricultural land are irregularly distributed and you can look far into the open landscape. You see the characteristic old farms, often of the head-neck-trunk type that was popular in 1850, but there are also other monumental farms. When you cycle through National Landscape Midden-Humsterland you will not be surprised that this beautiful Dutch environment is on the World Heritage List. The cycle route starts near windmill De Meeuw. De Meeuw was built in 1851 to replace a burnt-out mill. The mill underwent several restorations in the twentieth century, during which the octagonal flour mill was stripped of its husks. The grinding mill can be visited on Sunday afternoon. You cycle four kilometers further to the Allersmaborg, which is built in a meander of the Reitdiep between Ezinge and Aduarderzijl. The oldest part of this deposit is the fifteenth century stone house, but the first settlement probably dates from up to three centuries earlier. In the sixteenth century, a wing was added, giving the deposit an L-shape, and in the seventeenth century, canals were constructed, canals were constructed, and a drawbridge was built. The Dovecote was founded in the mid-eighteenth century, but acquired a neo-Gothic style in the course of the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century, in 1976-1977, the deposit was completely restored. Then you set course for Oldehove. The small town has less than 2,000 inhabitants and in the village there is a beautiful old tower mill from 1855. De Leeuw replaced an octagonal upper porter in 1789 that stood southwest of the church. In 1972 the mill was sold to the then municipality of Oldehove and in 1974 the mill was restored. This restoration took two years. In'78 the mill was put back into use for its original function; grind and peel. In the summer of 2010, the mill was out of operation for a short time to repair the inner bars. Minor repairs were carried out in 2011. You reach Piloersmaborg/Hamsterborg via the wierde village of Niehove. This is the last farm deposit in the Netherlands and the history of the castle dates back to at least 1521. In that year, the deposit is first mentioned in writing, when a pastor from Oldehove inherits the Piloersmaborg. The priest's son-in-law converted the farm into a fortified castle. In the decades that followed, the castle was extensively renovated and the war damage was repaired several times, a plaque from 1633 with the family coats of arms of the owners is proof of this. In 2013, a hotel is located in the Piloersemaborg/Hamsterborg, so that the castle can only be viewed from the inside by guests. The estate around the deposit is freely accessible.
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Directions

# Description Distance
65
65 (9893PD, Het Hogeland, Groningen, The Netherlands) 0.00 km
De Meeuw (De Meeuw, 9893PB, Westerkwartier, Groningen, The Netherlands) 0.19 km
47
47 (9892TG, Westerkwartier, Groningen, The Netherlands) 3.12 km
Allersma (Westerkwartier, Groningen, The Netherlands) 4.59 km
66
66 (9891BA, Westerkwartier, Groningen, The Netherlands) 6.62 km
67
67 (9886PG, Westerkwartier, Groningen, The Netherlands) 7.94 km

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