A detour through the Weerribben

The route starts at Hotel Café Restaurant Het Rietershuijs. You walk through Kalenberg, the village known for its reed cultivation. Kalenberg reed is still a popular building material for covering roofs. The footpath then leads you through the reed lands, rough grasslands and along the waters and swamp forests of the Weerribben - a beautiful and quiet nature reserve. On the Hoogeweg you can still see a few nineteenth-century monumental farm workers' houses. There is also a former peat cutter's house. You pass two small polder mills. The first one you see is the Wicher, a spider mill from 1982. Further on is the Tjasker Kalenberg from 1963. Along the Heuvengracht and the Kalenbergergracht you walk back to Kalenberg. Until the fifties of the last century, Kalenberg was a real sailing village: it was only accessible by water.