Brabant Monastery Trail: circular tour Heeswijk-Dinther
This 10.4 km circular walk revolves around the Berne Abbey, both literally and figuratively.
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This 10.4 km circular walk revolves around the Berne Abbey, both literally and figuratively. Get inspired! While walking, perhaps you would like to contemplate the following question: "How and for whom do you want to be a source of meaning?"
North Brabant monastery life
While walking, become acquainted with the life and work of the Brabant monks and nuns – then and now. Brabant Monastery Trail takes you past around fifty-five monasteries and abbeys in North Brabant in various stages. The total length of the trail is 330 kilometres, but there are also beautiful trails marked out around various monasteries.
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Signposting of the Monastery trail
Simply follow the signs and walk along the route from one numbered junction to the next.
Signposting of the Monastery trail
Simply follow the signs and walk along the route from one numbered junction to the next.
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Hotline routes
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Tips from Brabant residents
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Abbey of Berne
This abbey was originally founded in the Dutch hamlet of Berne, but due to war and plundering it finally found its home in Heeswijk in 1857.
Abdijstraat 495473 AD Heeswijk
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Meierij Museum Farm
This museum farm lets visitors experience how farmers lived and worked in the Brabantse Meierij region between 1900 and 1930.
Nature Theatre De Kersouwe
At the end of 1945, 20 ladies and gentlemen, including seven White Canons (Norbertine monks), met in Heeswijk Abbey to establish artist collective Kunstkring Heeswijk. This company was given the name De Kersouwe.
Castle Heeswijk
Together with St. John’s Cathedral in ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Grote Kerk church in Breda and the Markiezenhof in Bergen op Zoom, Kasteel Heeswijk is one of the four official Top Monuments in Brabant.
Saint Willibrord church
The present parish church was built in 1895, and the church building was dedicated to St. Willibrord in 1896.
Abbey of Berne
This abbey was originally founded in the Dutch hamlet of Berne, but due to war and plundering it finally found its home in Heeswijk in 1857.
Abdijstraat 495473 AD Heeswijk
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