WW1 / Resistance Trail

This 4.2 km walk passes the new and old town hall of Baarle-Hertog. Read more

This 4.2 km walk passes the new and old town hall of Baarle-Hertog, the former Belgian post office, the headquarters of the Dutch commander, the town hall of Baarle-Nassau, the former train station, the locations of the Belgian military transmitter station, the house of the former mayor of Gilse of Baarle-Hertog, the soldiers' barracks at Loveren, the gate at the fence around Baarle centre, the Red Cross post of the Dutch army and other places that remind us of WW1.

Departure point: Town hall, Parallelweg 1, Baarle-Hertog.

There are four information boards with related themes along the way:

1. Parallelweg (Bels Lijntje), Baarle-Nassau: “Welcome to Free Baarle”
2. Kerkstraat 4, Baarle-Hertog: “Centre for letter smuggling”
3. Burgemeester van Gilsestraat, Baarle-Hertog: “Belgian military transmitter station MN 7”
4. Loveren, Baarle-Nassau: “Netherlands neutral”

Spoken stories:

At information boards 2 and 3, after scanning the QR codes, you can listen to a spoken story:

2. Kerkstraat 4, Baarle-Hertog: Miet Verhoeven, border guide and letter smuggler
3. Burg. van Gilsestraat, Baarle-Hertog: Henri van Gilse, mayor and co-founder of the military transmitter station MN 7

Reconstructions:
Along this route there is a reconstruction of the military transmitter mast MN-7