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10 m
02h27
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Last verified: 24 May 2025

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The Juul Noeyens trail takes you right through Unesco World Heritage Sites. Wortel-Kolonie, the green lung of Hoogstraten, offers a breathtaking piece of nature with one of the 9 official silence areas of Flanders. You start in the heart of Wortel-Kolonie and through the extension you get acquainted with the hamlets of Bolk and Keirschot. Juul Noeyens was the man who taught Wortel to walk, with this hike you follow in his footsteps.

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Difficulty level: Medium (50/100)

Length: 12.3 km

Duration: 02h27


Total ascent: 10 m

Maximal slope: 0.2 %

Average slope: 0.1 %

Net ascent: -1 m

Total descent: 11 m

Roads and subsoil

Paved roads: 6.41 km (52 %)

Cobblestones: 243 m (2 %)

Scenery

Car free roads: 5.88 km (48 %)

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Urban area

Water rich area

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        Places of interest

        1. Colony of Carrot

          0 · Prison
          The current prison of Wortel was a vagrant colony until 1933. With the abolition of the vagrancy …
          Verro
        2. Barracks

          0 · POI
          Diagonally opposite the north-south axis, the building was built around 1893 by order of Chambert …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        3. Colony Carrot

          0 · Historical building

          Since the Vagrancy Act was abolished in 1993, things have changed in the colonies. Today, the …

          Natuurmagazine Roots
        4. Colony Carrot

          0 · Historical building

          The domain of the State Benevolence Colony of Wortel, a unique and intact example of the …

          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        5. Central service and housing buildings

          0 · POI
          The symmetrically constructed building complex around the extensive courtyard, the preserved choir …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        6. Head guard's house and teacher's residences

          0 · House
          Originally detached single houses of three bays and two storeys under a cantilevered gable roof …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        7. Colonies of Benevolence

          0 · Heritage
          The Colonies of Benevolence are seven building complexes of former Dutch and Belgian colonies, …
          Wikipedia
        8. Guards' houses

          0 · POI
          Originally single linked single houses in mirror image, two storeys under common gable roof (ridge …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        9. Variegated skipper

          0 · Natural phenomena
          The pied skipper is a fairly rare butterfly that can be seen flying here in spring. The …
          Natuurmagazine Roots
        10. Eclectic mansion and farm

          0 · Farm
          U-shaped complex with eclectic mansion and former farm, also birthplace of sports and businessman …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        11. Papenbos - Speelbos

          0 · Horeca

          HET PAPENBOS, a wooded domain in Rijkevorsel that borders nature reserve "De Bolkse Beek" and the …

          Papenbos
        12. Tuin Der Zinnen

          0 · B&B
          tvl
        13. Langgestrekte hoeve

          0 · Hoeve
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        14. Hoeve met aansluitend dorpsherberg en -winkel

          0 · Hoeve
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        15. Village house

          0 · House
          Art Deco-tinted semi-open single house of two bays and two storeys under cantilevered gable roof …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        16. Village house

          0 · House
          Village house from the fourth quarter of the 19th century - first quarter of the 20th century. …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        17. Municipal school with teacher's house

          0 · School
          Former municipal school with teacher's house, built in 1873-1874 to a design by P.J. Taeymans; In …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        18. Wortel

          0 · Sub-Municipality
          Wortel is a village in the Belgian municipality of Hoogstraten. As of 2021, it has 1,844 …
          Wikipedia
        19. Woonwinkelhuis Horsten

          0 · House
          Residential and commercial house in new objectivity, built in 1933 by order of the Horsten sisters …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        20. Burgerhuis

          0 · Herenhuis
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        21. Burgher's House

          0 · Manor house
          Bourgeois house with double house elevation of four bays and two storeys under a gable roof (ridge …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        22. Burgerhuis

          0 · Herenhuis
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        23. Villa in cottagestijl

          0 · Herenwoonst
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        24. Woonstalhuis

          0 · Huis
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        25. Kapelanie beneficael huys

          0 · POI
          Former chapel or the so-called beneficael huys, rising to circa 1787; located southeast of the …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        26. Herberg De Ster

          0 · Historisch gebouw
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        27. Customs officers' houses

          0 · POI
          Linked single houses of two bays and two storeys under a common tent roof with irregular hipped …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        28. Two village houses

          0 · House
          Two village houses with double house elevation of four bays each and one to one and a half storeys …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        29. Parish church of St. John the Baptist with cemetery

          0 · Church
          Situated on an eminent detached church with surrounding churchyard, enclosed by a churchyard wall …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        30. Farmer's house

          0 · House
          Farmer's house from the fourth quarter of the 19th century consisting of a living area of three …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        31. Presbytery with walled garden

          0 · House
          Detached walled former presbytery in a sober traditional brick and sandstone style, rising to …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        32. Boerenburgerhuis

          0 · Herenhuis
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        33. Stable house

          0 · House
          Restored and highly modified stable house of five and five bays under gable roof (ridge …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        34. Stable house

          0 · House
          Stable house of five and five bays under gable roof (ridge parallel to the street, mechanical …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen
        35. Play forest

          0 · Play woods
          Area: Domain forest Colony Root Owner: Flemish Region Access: 1 Jan - 31 Dec
          Bouwen aan groen speelweefsel
        36. Halifax III Memorial

          0 · Memorial location

          Halifax III crew memorial plaque with registration LK865 (C8-Q)

          Hermans Cor Meerle
        37. Bat cellar

          0 · POI

          Here is a bat habitat.
          In winter the bats can hibernate there and also in summer they find a home …

          riviered
        38. Fens

          0 · Water
          In the heyday of the colonies, many pines were planted. Today, some of the trees are cut down …
          Natuurmagazine Roots
        39. Colony Carrot

          0 · Historical place
          The Colonies of Wortel and Merksplas are characterized by their typical avenue structure.
          tvl
        40. Wortel Colony

          0 · POI

          In the past, in the colony of Wortel, a fairly strict discipline was applied! There was a daily …

          Val et Oli
        41. The Clapper Magpie

          0 · Visitingcenter
          De Klapekster is the visitor center of Natuurpunt Markvallei for Wortel Kolonie, the Castelreesche …
          Drej
        42. Root-Colony

          0 · Natural area

          Root-Colony is a special area with a unique story. The Colonies of Benevolence tell a curious …

          VisitHoogstraten
        43. Kinderboerderij De Bonte Beestenboel

          0 · Youth centre
          tvl
        44. Farmstead

          0 · Farm
          Large-scale farm built around an immense yard with a central grass square, planted with young …
          Onroerend Erfgoed Vlaanderen

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        Colony of Carrot
        Barracks
        Colony Carrot
        Colony Carrot
        Central service and housing buildings
        Head guard's house and teacher's residences
        Colonies of Benevolence
        Guards' houses
        Variegated skipper
        Eclectic mansion and farm
        Papenbos - Speelbos
        Tuin Der Zinnen
        Langgestrekte hoeve
        Hoeve met aansluitend dorpsherberg en -winkel
        Village house
        Village house
        Municipal school with teacher's house
        Wortel
        Woonwinkelhuis Horsten
        Burgerhuis
        Burgher's House
        Burgerhuis
        Villa in cottagestijl
        Woonstalhuis
        Kapelanie beneficael huys
        Herberg De Ster
        Customs officers' houses
        Two village houses
        Parish church of St. John the Baptist with cemetery
        Farmer's house
        Presbytery with walled garden
        Boerenburgerhuis
        Stable house
        Stable house
        Play forest
        Halifax III Memorial
        Bat cellar
        Fens
        Colony Carrot
        Wortel Colony
        The Clapper Magpie
        Root-Colony
        Kinderboerderij De Bonte Beestenboel
        Farmstead
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