Tour De Scheeken and Paulushoeve

Your route starts at Boutique Hotel Bed&Bos. De Scheeken consists of four hundred hectares of moist deciduous forests, swamp forests, meadows and poplar landscapes. The name is a combination of the words schei and oak; Plot boundaries used to be marked by dividing trees, especially oaks. Further on you pass the Paulushoef farm, a beautiful landmark for the pilots because the name is in large letters on the roof. More than 4,500 paratroopers fell from the sky here on Sunday afternoon, September 17, 1944, in 45 minutes. Paul van Overveld was a 15-year-old boy at the time, he experienced it all. Listen to his story at Listening point L113: Liberation from the air. On the way back you can visit the Bevrijdende Vleugels Museum, about the liberation of the South of the Netherlands.