Brabant Monastery Trail Stage 10: Eindhoven – Vessem
This walking route takes you from Mariënhage Monastery in Eindhoven to Pilgrim's Hostel Kafarnaüm in Vessem.
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This walking route allows amblers to discover the area between Eindhoven and Vessem. This route takes you from Mariënhage Monastery in Eindhoven to Pilgrim's Hostel Kafarnaüm in Vessem. On the way you will pass various locations such as the Clara Convent and the Gennep Watermill. You can also explore the Koningshof courtyard and the Lambertus church. 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,…
This walking route allows amblers to discover the area between Eindhoven and Vessem. This route takes you from Mariënhage Monastery in Eindhoven to Pilgrim's Hostel Kafarnaüm in Vessem. On the way you will pass various locations such as the Clara Convent and the Gennep Watermill. You can also explore the Koningshof courtyard and the Lambertus church. 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
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Tips from Brabant residents
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Hotel Mariënhage
Enjoy luxury and design in the four-star Boutique Hotel Mariënhage, a former monastery in the heart of Eindhoven. Relax in the garden, savour top-class dinners and explore the city around the corner. A unique mix of quiet, history and modern comfort!
Hotel MariënhageKanaalstraat 4
5611 CT Eindhoven
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Mariënhage Monastery
In the Middle Ages, a castle stood on the site of Mariënhage Monastery. In the early fifteenth century, the lord of the castle donated it to five religious men from Eindhoven.
Clara Convent
Located on Claralaan in Eindhoven is the Clarist Convent of Mary, Mother of the Church. In 1936, the Clarist Coletine Sisters settled in Eindhoven in a former rectory. Prior to that, they had lived in Helmond.
Genneper Watermolen
Throughout the centuries, the mill has been rebuilt and restored on numerous occasions. It has also had various functions, such as an oil mill and a fulling mill.
NH Conference Centre Koningshof
Its unique location in a former convent makes NH Conference Centre Koningshof ideally suited to leisure travellers.
Chapel of Our Lady in ‘t Zand
Zandoerle has a village green—a grassy square lined with trees, a feature that was once more common. Livestock used to be gathered on the village green before being led to the communal pastures.
Burial Mounds
The woods between the hamlets of Toterfout and Halve Mijl are known for a number of prehistoric burial mounds dating from the Middle Bronze Age (1600–1000 BCE). Burial Mound 4 is sometimes called the Lambertsbergje.
St. Lambertus Church in Vessem
The origins of St. Lambertus Church date back to the Middle Ages. At that time, the right to appoint priests in Vessem rested with the chapter of Oirschot.
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