Country Estates and Lakes

(36.0 km)

The Country Houses and Lakes Route connects a series of beautiful nature and water reserves and quintessential Dutch landscapes with windmills, historic farmsteads and centuries-old castles and country houses. It is a short but varied ride, leaving plenty of time to break for a refreshing dip, tasty lunch or visit to the Vechtstreek regional museum or the castle museum of Slot Zuylen.

Below are just a few of the beautiful country houses along the route:

  • Nieuwerhoek, in Loenen aan de Vecht. Built in the 17th century by the Hoek family, a Mennonite merchant family from Amsterdam;
  • Pupillenschool, former premilitary school dating from 1877, now a women's prison, on Zandpad in Nieuwersluis, next to cycle junction 02;
  • Rupelmonde, in Nieuwersluis. A stately 18th-century house with statues of Neptune and Mercury adorning the façade;
  • Kasteel Nijenrode, castle built in 1250 by Gerard Splinter van Ruwielt. The name …

The Country Houses and Lakes Route connects a series of beautiful nature and water reserves and quintessential Dutch landscapes with windmills, historic farmsteads and centuries-old castles and country houses. It is a short but varied ride, leaving plenty of time to break for a refreshing dip, tasty lunch or visit to the Vechtstreek regional museum or the castle museum of Slot Zuylen.

Below are just a few of the beautiful country houses along the route:

  • Nieuwerhoek, in Loenen aan de Vecht. Built in the 17th century by the Hoek family, a Mennonite merchant family from Amsterdam;
  • Pupillenschool, former premilitary school dating from 1877, now a women's prison, on Zandpad in Nieuwersluis, next to cycle junction 02;
  • Rupelmonde, in Nieuwersluis. A stately 18th-century house with statues of Neptune and Mercury adorning the façade;
  • Kasteel Nijenrode, castle built in 1250 by Gerard Splinter van Ruwielt. The name Nijen Rode dates back to the original keep and means ‘new clearing’;
  • Buitenplaats Doornburg, country house owned and occupied by the Sisters of the Holy Sepulchre. In the 1960s, the nuns built a modern convent next door in the Bossche School style;
  • Vechtenstein, a large white house with an eye-catching green roof, built in the 1930s.

Sights on this route

Starting point: Top Slot Zuylen
Tournooiveld 1
3611 AW Oud-Zuilen
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Castle Slot Zuylen

Tournooiveld 1
3611 AS Oud Zuilen
Castle Slot Zuylen
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62
47
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Fort Maarsseveen

Fort Maarsseveen
Herenweg 3
3602 AM Maarssen
Fort Maarsseveen
48
3

Museum Vredegoed

Heuvellaan 7
3612 BA Tienhoven
Museum Vredegoed
49
27
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Nieuw Loosdrechtsedijk
1231 LJ Loosdrecht
28
26
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02
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Fort Nieuwersluis

Rijksstraatweg 7 B
3631 AA Nieuwersluis
Fort Nieuwersluis
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87
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Vechtstreekmuseum Maarssen

Vechtstreekmuseum
Diependaalsedijk 19
3601 GH MAARSSEN
Vechtstreekmuseum Maarssen
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End point: TOP Slot Zuylen
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