Huttenheugte along the German border to Schoonebeek and back via Zandpol

This route takes you through the former peat area behind Coevorden and along the German border to:

Picturesque Schoonebeek
Schoonebeek is one of the oldest mining villages in Drenthe, it was founded in the thirteenth century. In 1943, the second largest oil field on mainland Western Europe was found here. Oil was extracted here until 1996. There is still an old-fashioned yes-man in the center of Schoonebeek as a reminder.

In the Oosterse Bos neighborhood you drive past some monumental Saxon farms from the early 1800s.

Industrial Narrow Gauge Museum
Just after the village of Weiteveen , near the German border, you pass the Industrial Narrow Gauge Museum. This unique museum was founded in 1984 and has a collection of field railway locomotives, wagons, tools, photos and other museum material. You can take a tour through a beautiful area on a largely original route that was previously used for peat transport. During the ride you will pass the only remaining peat litter factory in the Netherlands. There is also a 4-track narrow-gauge depot from 1910 on the museum grounds. Both the peat litter factory and the depot are national monuments.

Amsterdamscheveld
The area around the Amsterdamscheveld hamlet once belonged to an extensive raised bog. In 1850, a group of Amsterdam investors bought a piece of peat land here that served as a hunting ground until the early 1900s. It was later excavated. On Griendtsveenstraat you will pass three former staff homes (at numbers 39, 41 and 57) of the family that ran the Griendtsveen Turfkruidsel Maatschappij. They are national monuments.