Tour of the history of Weert

Your walk starts at Huupkens IJs. With your ice cream in hand, walk into the City Park, past the old tithe shed. You walk past a beautiful old castle here. In the thirteenth century, the Lords of Horne built Aldeborch Castle, on the Biest. In the fifteenth century a new fortress was built further up: Nijenborgh. The Friars Minor converted Aldeborch into a monastery, Nijenborgh was destroyed in 1702 at the Siege of Weert. A mansion was later built on the foundations. On the Markt you can see the former town hall from the sixteenth century, now the Jacob van Horne Museum. The Sint-Martinuskerk dates from 1456 and is one of the last two hall churches still in existence in the Netherlands. Also special: on the Noordkade you can see the only surviving clay pipe kiln in Western Europe.