In the footsteps of Gerrit Achterberg

Your route starts at Spoolder Proeven & Proosten. Gerrit Achterberg was a writer with a shady edge. The poems that sprang from his 'great mind' have been awarded several prizes. He moved in the highest literary circles where he was adored, but where his dark side was also covered with the cloak of love. Fate brought him to Neede where he spent eight relatively quiet years with his beloved, Cathrien van Baak. In those eight years he wrote half of his entire oeuvre. He wrote mainly about death and unattainable loves, but the poems he wrote about the village are almost sweet. The Needse Berg lookout tower is worth taking a look at!