€150,- for the Geldersch Landschap spring forest

At the Walk of Wisdom , we don’t just want to consume the landscape, we also want to give something in return. We do this, among other things, by saving €1 for every pilgrim who registers (our piggy bank ‘landscape contribution’). Thanks to the steadily growing registrations, we were able to transfer €150 to the Geldersch Landschap for the management of the source forests of the Heerlijkheid Beek (municipality of Berg en Dal).

De Heerlijkheid Beek – what a beautiful name, isn’t it? It is not only wonderful to walk through undulating meadows, bordered by beautiful old trees. You will also pass through the ‘Elysian Fields’. Another name! “Abode of the blessed” it means. You will probably go over it on the first day of your Walk of Wisdom , about 13 kilometers from the starting point of the Stevenskerk in Nijmegen.

The Romans once used this area as a lookout. Of the many wild chestnuts they planted – Romans liked them – descendants still stand today. The chic names already give it away: the nature reserve was in the hands of the nobility for a long time. First German counts, then the lord of Groesbeek and from the 17th century until 1941 the van Randwijck family. He donated it to the Geldersch Landschap. Truly a noble deed.

Fun fact: after the Heerlijkheid Beek you arrive in the village of Beek and you enter the Duivelsberg nature reserve (another name that appeals to the imagination). You then cross the Van Randwijcklaan. Now you know what it refers to.

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