The Bolle Jan route

The route offers you a view of the beautiful varied landscape in this region. You walk through coniferous forests, deciduous forests and meadows and fields. For Dutch standards it is remarkably quiet here. At the end of the route you will see a farm with a striking white building in the fields. This was Groot Karelke, the large cultivation farm of Bolle Jan. Trader Bolle Jan has been given a place in the local collective memory for several reasons. From his farm he traveled through a no man's land where there were at most a few Dutch border guards to maintain the state of siege. The herd and the'occasional shepherds\\\' manage to cross the border where the Germans briefly get the deadly 2000 volts from the Wire of Death.