Brabant Monastery Trail Stage 15: Vught – Den Bosch
This walking route takes you from monastery hotel ZIN in Vught to city monastery San Damiano in 's-Hertogenbosch.
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This walking route allows amblers to discover the area between Vught and 's-Hertogenbosch. In this route you walk from monastery hotel ZIN in Vught to city monastery San Damiano in 's-Hertogenbosch. On the way you will pass various locations such as estate Zegenwerp and De Oude Toren (the old tower). You can also explore former friar’s house De Ruwenberg and Oud Herlaer farm. This route is part of Brabant Monastery Trail, a trail in 15 stages.
Staying overnight
A number of monasteries along Brabant Monastery Trail have the option of staying the night. Always check in advance what is possible, some monasteries are only open on certain days. For all locations and up-to-date information, please visit brabantskloosterleven.nl (Dutch language). There are many hospitable hotels, B&Bs, campsites and other locations where you can stay the night in the trail’s surroundings. You can find an accommodation from this list of places to stay in Brabant.
Brabant Monastery Trail
While wa…
This walking route allows amblers to discover the area between Vught and 's-Hertogenbosch. In this route you walk from monastery hotel ZIN in Vught to city monastery San Damiano in 's-Hertogenbosch. On the way you will pass various locations such as estate Zegenwerp and De Oude Toren (the old tower). You can also explore former friar’s house De Ruwenberg and Oud Herlaer farm. This route is part of Brabant Monastery Trail, a trail in 15 stages.
Staying overnight
A number of monasteries along Brabant Monastery Trail have the option of staying the night. Always check in advance what is possible, some monasteries are only open on certain days. For all locations and up-to-date information, please visit brabantskloosterleven.nl (Dutch language). There are many hospitable hotels, B&Bs, campsites and other locations where you can stay the night in the trail’s surroundings. You can find an accommodation from this list of places to stay in Brabant.
Brabant Monastery Trail
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
Simply follow the signs and cycle along the route from one numbered junction to the next.
Signposting
Simply follow the signs and cycle along the route from one numbered junction to the next.
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Hotline routes
Hotline routesIf there is something wrong on the route, report it here.
Tips from Brabant residents
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Kloosterhotel Zin
In 1902, the Brothers of Tilburg purchased Huize Steenwijk at Boxtelseweg 58-60 in Vught to establish a retirement home for elderly and infirm brothers. The house dates back to 1840.
Boxtelseweg 585261 NE Vught
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Zegenwerp Estate
The Zegenwerp Estate is first mentioned in 1306. It is a fief of Oud-Herlaer, a place we will visit later in this stage. The lords of Zegenwerp held the fishing rights to a section of the Dommel River.
The Old Tower
The tower originally belonged to a Gothic brick church, built in the mid-15th century on a site where a wooden church (10th century) and later a tuff stone church (around 1100) had previously stood.
Roman Catholic Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Martinus van Beek (b. 1790), the son of a farmer, became a curate in Gemert in 1821, a teacher at the Latin School a year later, and principal of that school in 1825.
Nieuw Herlaer Castle
The complex has been a national monument since 1973, and the current buildings date largely from the nineteenth century, when they were constructed as a monastery and almshouse.
Haanwijk Estate
Haanwijk Estate is near the spot where the River Essche Stroom flows into the Dommel.
Oud Herlaer
Oud-Herlaer was a castle. Herlaer Castle came to be known as Oud-Herlaer when a new castle, Nieuw-Herlaer, was built one kilometer upstream.
Stadsklooster San Damiano
Van der Does de Willeboissingel 12
5211 CB ‘s-Hertogenbosch
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