Cycling through historic Drenthe

Assen, Drenthe, The Netherlands

Cycling route: 316484

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Provided by: Groots Genieten

42.1 km
02:28 h
742 kcal
21 m

Description

Cycling through the Drenthe of the past for a day? Then come to the Drentsche Aa National Landscape, the best-preserved stream and esdorp landscape in Western Europe.

The Drenthe Aa
In this national landscape you drive through a backdrop of grasslands, bushes, hedgerows, heaths and ash trees. Historical? Yes, because the landscape has hardly changed in 150 years. For example, the Drentsche Aa still meanders through the landscape in its original way. Where almost every other area in the Netherlands was under construction, people took the landscape here as it was. It looks like you are driving through an open-air museum in Drenthe.

Esdorpen
On your route you will see some beautiful old Saxon farmhouses. You pass through characteristic esdorpen such as Gasteren and Anderen. Here you can still see the original greens: meadows lined with old beech and oak. Balloo has no green, but lies like a wreath around the ash tree. The town of Oudemolen is named after a dilapidated water mill that once stood at the Drentsche Aa. De Zwaluw is still standing, a thatched corn mill from 1837 just outside Oudemolen.

Jungle in Assen
You will find one of the oldest forests in the Netherlands in a place you would not expect at all: in the middle of Assen. A small part of the Asserbos still consists of the primeval forest that covered Drenthe in the Middle Ages. The rest of the forest may also be there. After reclamation for agriculture proved fruitless, most of the current forest was planted in 1784 as a baroque star forest. If you look around you, you will recognize the clean lines and symmetry that were fashionable at the time. And you can still see some of the original oaks and beeches that have now reached a more than respectable age. Would you like to get to know another part of Drenthe's rich cultural history? Then drive the historic TT tour with route 316480.

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Directions

# Description Distance
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1 (9401SB, Assen, Drenthe, The Netherlands) 0.00 km
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10 (9404CD, Assen, Drenthe, The Netherlands) 2.18 km
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16 (9409TS, Assen, Drenthe, The Netherlands) 5.35 km
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11 (9409TS, Assen, Drenthe, The Netherlands) 5.97 km
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45 (9403TH, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, The Netherlands) 8.92 km
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17 (9484TC, Tynaarlo, Drenthe, The Netherlands) 10.51 km

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