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Between Steinweg and Eisden – St. Barbara Church, Eisden loop from Eisden Damhertstraat

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Between Steinweg and Eisden – St. Barbara Church, Eisden loop from Eisden Damhertstraat

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Between Steinweg and Eisden – St. Barbara Church, Eisden loop from Eisden Damhertstraat

00:50

14.2km

50m

Cycling

Easy bike ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 29, 2026

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Your route passes through protected areas

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Vlaams Natuurreservaat Mechelse Heide

Nationaal Park Hoge Kempen

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629 m

Café Station Eisden

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Eisden's old railway station is now a café. Looks quaint.

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2.79 km

Wooden bike bridge to As

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wooden bicycle bridge. Fun to ride over.

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3.07 km

Between Steinweg and Eisden

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The section leads through the middle of the forest and is perfectly paved.

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5.58 km

St. Barbara Church, Eisden

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The monumental St. Barbara Church was built in 1934-1937 to a design by architect Auguste Vanden Nieuwenborg.

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7.20 km

Eisden Coal Mine Headframes (Terhills)

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Anyone looking for Eisden's mining past will discover traces that are as diverse as they are striking. They stood like exclamation marks in a history that threatened to be erased after the mine closed and the complete demolition of the mining heritage was decided. A mining site whose facades form the architectural conclusion of the residential cores: the old cités. There are also four restored and converted mining buildings, a director's house and a miner's house, three statues, each representing a different era of fine art, a castle... An offering that could not be more diverse against the uniform background.

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7.32 km

Mine headframe in the National Park

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The headframe in the Hoge Kempen National Park is a powerful and recognizable symbol of Belgian Limburg's mining history. This steel structure, once located above a mine shaft, served to operate elevators with which miners transported materials and coal deep underground. Today, the headframe no longer serves the industry but serves as a monument and landmark in a landscape that has reinvented itself as a nature reserve. Within the National Park, including in the area around Eisden Waterschei and Zwartberg, headframes form a striking contrast with the surrounding heathland, forests, and slag heaps. Where noise, dust, and hard labor once defined the landscape, peace and tranquility now prevail. The headframe serves as a quiet reminder of the thousands of miners who descended into the earth here daily, keeping the region's economic engine running in the 20th century. Architecturally, headframes are functional structures constructed of steel and designed for maximum stability and load-bearing capacity. Their sleek lines and industrial appearance give them an almost sculptural quality today. That's precisely why several headframes have been protected as industrial heritage and consciously integrated into the experience of the National Park. They serve as landmarks along hiking and cycling routes and help visitors read the landscape; nature and industry are inextricably linked here. In educational contexts, headframes are often used to tell the story of coal mining, labor migration, and Limburg's social history. They symbolize an era of hard labor, but also of solidarity, community, and progress. By preserving them within a nature park, that past is given a new place, not as a scar, but as a layer in the landscape.

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