Cycle route Over the Peelrandfracture to the Peel

In the middle of Deurne, just a few hundred meters from the Ossenbeemd, runs the Peelrandfracture, a geological fault from Roermond to Heesch, which owes its name to the Peel. The Peelrand Fault has a major impact on the Brabant landscape. For thousands of years, it has influenced nature, the landscape and even the people who live there. However, few people know what the Peelrand Fault is or where it can be found.

The cycle route takes you from the Ossenbeemd over the Peelrand fracture to the “Verheven Peel”, as the nature reserves of Deurnese Peel and Mariapeel are also collectively called. De Verheven Peel is bordered on the west by the Peelrand Fault, which is virtually impenetrable to groundwater and therefore very important for the preservation of this extremely vulnerable nature reserve. Along the way you will be made aware of how the Peelrand Fault is visible in the landscape and how people through the ages have made use of the possibilities offered to them by the Peelrand Fault.

On the route you pass the Groot and Klein Kasteel and the Watermill of Deurne. You will cycle along the double row of trees, which marks the Peelrand fracture in the Heiakkerpark. Attention is drawn to the large boulders that could surface due to the location of the Peelrand fracture or to the location of the jug pipes, the first water pipe in Deurne.

Of course you are also pointed out the slight differences in height in the landscape and other characteristic phenomena on and around the fault. 

In the visitor center of the Ossenbeemd and at farm Bijzonder Brabants you can learn a lot more about the Peelrand. Back at the Ossenbeemd you can test your knowledge of the Peelrandfracture on the solar-energy-electric game 'What belongs to what?'