Time travel by bike between Maastricht and Moelingen

The first sight of today's bike tour is the Meschermolen. The mill was built as a water mill in 1699. At the end of the nineteenth century, the mill was converted into an overshot water mill. The mill fell into disrepair from the 1950s onwards and was no longer used. The Meschermolen was completely restored between 1996 and 1998 and is now operated on a voluntary basis.

Then you cycle on to Hoeve Libeek. This is a large castle-like farm that was built around the thirteenth century. The current marlstone house dates from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The surrounding wings of stables and barns were added later, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The farm rightly bears the title of national monument. A little further on you pass Huis Blankenberg. The castle was built around 1825 on the foundations of a medieval fortress in the shape of a lighthouse. The complex has been part of the Academic Hospital Maastricht since 2004 and was used as a nursing and recovery clinic. At the end of April 2010 it was bought by a Catholic foundation in Blankenberg. This beautiful house is also a national monument. Feast your eyes on the hamlet of Sint-Antoniusbank. Approximately 40 houses form the buildings of the hamlet. Until 1827 it belonged to the municipality of Heer en Keer, but then it became the municipality of Cadier en Keer. In 1982, Cadier en Keer municipality became part of the municipality of Margraten, which merged with Eijsden in 2011. In the hamlet, many historical elements can be found, if you know where to look. Despite its small scale, you can find two closed square farms, but also a monumental farm that, despite its nineteenth-century construction, dates back to the seventeenth century, a former monastery in which apartments have been created and an old farm with remains of a square tower and a covered well.

The last sight on this beautiful route is the Lombok mill. This historic water mill was built around 1500. The mill was used for grinding grain. In the past, there was also an oil mill behind the corn mill, but only the opening for the axle of the water wheel remains. The mill was in operation until 1960.