Landfort Estate – Goersee and Seerosenteich loop from Megchelen

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Netherlands

Gelderland

Gendringen

Landfort Estate – Goersee and Seerosenteich loop from Megchelen

Moderate

4.4

(41)

187

hikers

Landfort Estate – Goersee and Seerosenteich loop from Megchelen

02:30

9.87km

20m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 6, 2026

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Naturpark Hohe Mark - Westmünsterland

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177 m

Megchelen

Highlight • Settlement

idyllic village,
located with a lot of charm in the region of the Achterhoek in the province of Gelderland.🧭🇳🇱

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3.33 km

Coach House with Kitchen Garden

Highlight • Historical Site

In the 18th century, a vegetable garden surrounding a fishpond with its own buildings already existed on this site. Around 1825, the buildings were connected, creating a large neoclassical coach house. It housed stables, stabling rooms, and a staff apartment. The coach house was destroyed by shelling in 1945. Later, the vegetable garden also disappeared, and the fishpond was filled in.

The "Stichting Erfgoed Landfort" (Landfort Heritage Foundation) rebuilt the coach house, which was completed in 2021. In the same year, the vegetable and orchard garden, the display mound, winding paths, flower and herb beds, fruit wall, orangery, and wall greenhouse were also completed.

(Source: Information panel at the vegetable garden)

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3.43 km

Oriental Dovecote

Highlight • Monument

The Oriental dovecote was designed and built between 1825 and 1827 by Johann Theodor Übbung (1786-1864), the architect of the Prince of Anholt. The Oriental architectural style, with elements such as arched doorways, draperies with tassels, and a crescent moon, was popular at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. According to the descriptions accompanying the design, the dovecote was intended to house, among other things, 164 pairs of doves, as well as chickens, capons, turkeys, swans, and ducks. They were kept for their meat, eggs, and droppings, which were used as fertilizer for plants. The dovecote was severely damaged at the end of World War II. Around the year 2000, it was restored to its original condition.

(Source: Information panel on the grounds)

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3.77 km

Landfort Estate

Highlight • Historical Site

The island with its small country estate is called "Het Kleine Erf" (Little Erf). When the Amsterdam ophthalmologist and botanist Johann Albert Luyken (1785-1867) acquired Landfort House in 1823, he had ambitious renovation plans. In 1825, he commissioned the renowned landscape architect Jan David Zocher Jr. (1791-1870) to design a landscape park. Jan David Zocher designed the island of "Het Kleine Erf" and the entire park.

Today, several old and remarkable trees from that era still stand on the island. There are winding paths, embankments, flowerbeds, flowering shrubs, and numerous surprising vistas.

Het Kleine Erf is accessible via two distinctive bridges. One is the cast-iron bridge from 1873. This bridge was built at the Isselburg Ironworks in Germany and was restored in 2019 by order of the "Stichting Erfgoed Landfort" (Landfort Heritage Foundation). The monumental bridge at the head of Het Kleine Erf dates from the early 20th century and was designed by a member of the Luyken family.

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4.76 km

Path Through Fields in Naturpark Hohe Mark - Westmünsterland

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A beautiful route, also suitable for hiking. Since there is only one resident on this street, it's a pleasant place for cycling or walking. The street is a dead end for cars and leads into the Landfortseweg, which loops around Haus Landfort.

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5.28 km

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7.98 km