Past locks and forts

- Distance
- 42.0 km
Everywhere are forts, trenches, dykes, sluices, canals, casemates and group shelters to surprise you. Together these elements form an ingenious system that protected the Netherlands from hostile troops. Inundating the countryside with fifty centimetres of water made it impassable for soldiers, while still too shallow to use boats. Care to cycle through this utterly Dutch defence system from the 19th and 20th century?
Locations on this route
Start point: TOP Stadshaven Wijk bij Duurstede
Havenweg 1
3961 MA Wijk bij Duurstede
Havenweg 1
3961 MA Wijk bij Duurstede
3

Kersenmuseum (cherry museum)
Landwinkel de KersenhutGroenewoudseweg 18
3945 BC Cothen
6

Fort Honswijk
Fort HonswijkLekdijk 58
3998 NJ Schalkwijk
8

Fort Werk aan de Groeneweg
Groeneweg3998 Schalkwijk
End point: TOP Stadshaven Wijk bij Duurstede
Havenweg 1
3961 MA Wijk bij Duurstede
Havenweg 1
3961 MA Wijk bij Duurstede
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