Tour of 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 contraction of the words schei and eiken. Plot boundaries used to be marked by schei trees, especially oaks. Further on you will pass the Paulushoef farm, a beautiful landmark for pilots in wartime because the name is written in large letters on the roof. More than 4500 paratroopers fell from the sky here on Sunday afternoon 17 September 1944, in three quarters of an hour. Paul van Overveld was a 15-year-old boy at the time, he experienced it all. Listen to his story at Luisterpunt L113: Liberation from the air. On the way back you can visit the Museum Bevrijdende Vleugels, about the liberation of the South of the Netherlands.