Belgian town hall in two countries

A town hall cut in two by the border and thus located in two countries? That’s the town hall of Baarle-Hertog.

Parallelweg 1, Baarle-Hertog

Dutch town hall

The main building was built by architect J. de Lint and was inaugurated in 1953.

Singel 1, Baarle-Nassau

House with 2 house numbers

In Baarle there is one house with two house numbers and hence two addresses: the Belgian number 2 and the Dutch number 19.

Loveren 19, Baarle-Nassau

War Memorial Miet Pauw

War Memorial Miet Pauw is best known in Baarle for her resistance work for a pilot flight line in WWII.

Kerkstraat 4, Baarle-Hertog

Plaque

In the centre of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, directly opposite the border post, there is a plaque.

Singel 20, Baarle-Nassau

Switch house

At the original location on the hamlet of Gel is a short strip of killing wire with twenty authentic and intact insulators.

Gel, Zondereigen

Rafters station Bels Lijntje

Are you going to ride the Bels Line? Then be sure to stop at Weelde Station, where two exact copies of rafters have been placed.

Grensweg, Baarle-Nassau

St. Remigius church

This church in the Kempen Gothic style has a tower over 46 meters high which is equipped with a characteristic onion-shaped sphere and decorated with...

Kerkplein 1, Baarle-Hertog

St. Rumoldus church

The St. Rumoldus church, in Gothic style, is adorned with beautiful stained-glass windows by the famous Kempen glaziers Jan Huet and Maria van Beek.

Zondereigen 6, Zondereigen

St. Salvator Chapel

The St. Salvator Chapel is popularly known as the "Chapel of Nijhoven".

Nijhoven 2, Baarle-Nassau

Front door swap instead of emigrating

After 15 years of measuring the borders, in 1995 the enclave borders at some places appeared to be situated slightly different then was always assumed...

Chaamseweg 10, Baarle-Hertog

Wire of death

In Zondereigen, near the Belgian-Dutch border, the "De Dodendraad" peace monument was erected in 2008.

, Zondereigen

Receiving station MN7

Reconstruction of the forty-meter-long central antenna mast of the wireless military transmitting and receiving station MN7.

Leliestraat, Baarle-Hertog