Van Gogh NP walking tour in Zundert
The extremely varied walking tour (8 km) takes you through Vincent’s birthplace of Zundert.
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The extremely varied walking tour (8 km) takes you through Vincent’s birthplace of Zundert. You walk past six Van Gogh Monuments, past the heritage, past his childhood and through the landscape with winding streams that was so close to his heart. Open your senses and experience the origins of Van Gogh’s personality and artistry. And places that the artist looked back on with nostalgia later in his life.
Zundert
Welcome to Zundert, Vincent van Gogh’s birthplace. From his home soil, you wander past places f…
The extremely varied walking tour (8 km) takes you through Vincent’s birthplace of Zundert. You walk past six Van Gogh Monuments, past the heritage, past his childhood and through the landscape with winding streams that was so close to his heart. Open your senses and experience the origins of Van Gogh’s personality and artistry. And places that the artist looked back on with nostalgia later in his life.
Zundert
Welcome to Zundert, Vincent van Gogh’s birthplace. From his home soil, you wander past places from his youth. You go to surprising, intimate places where, as a child, the artist walked with his parents, brothers and sisters, where he played with all kinds of creatures and made drawings of them. Where he fantasised and dreamt about later, about what he would become. But you also go to places that in Van Gogh’s time were still vast rye fields and where a new park-like landscape flourishes today. And you see streets of which the names are reminiscent of Van Gogh’s sketches and paintings. How great is that!
If you would like to know (more) about Vincent’s Zundert period, visit the Vincent van Gogh House. On www.vangoghbrabant.com/zundert there is a link to the audio walk ‘Vluchtpunten’ (Vanishing Point), inspired by Vincent’s letters.
Van Gogh National Park
The Van Gogh walking tours in the Van Gogh National Park immerse you in the landscape Vincent van Gogh fell in love with. Enjoy the meandering streams, extensive nature reserves, farmland, country estates and greenery that stretches out right into the heart of the villages and towns. The locals are working together to preserve and expand this beautiful, healthy and green living environment. With Vincent van Gogh as their guide.
Finding the way with numbered junctions
This Van Gogh NP walking tour has been mapped out using the local numbered junction system. You can recognise the route by the signs with the words 'Van Gogh National Park', which you will find on every junction post.Between the junctions you can follow the junction system signposts.
Routes reporting point
If you find something wrong with the signage or the route itself, you can report it via the Brabant junction route reporting point. You can also call 0800 4050050 free of charge.
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Sights on this route
Vincent van GoghHuis
The Vincent van GoghHuis: a living arts centre in the birthplace of Brabant’s most famous artist ever, stands on the spot where Vincent van Gogh came into the world on 30 March 1853.
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Markt 264881 CN Zundert
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Markt met gemeentehuis Zundert
In het gemeentehuis van Zundert werd de geboorte van Vincent van Gogh aangegeven.
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Markt 14881 CN Zundert
Voormalige locatie dorpsschool Zundert
Het pand aan de Markt 2 was vroeger de dorpsschool van Zundert. Vincent van Gogh heeft er slechts een jaar op school gezeten.
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Markt 24881 ZN Zundert
Voormalige locatie dorpsschool Zundert
Voormalige locatie dorpsschool Zundert
Markt 2
4881 ZN Zundert
Woning tantes van Van Gogh Zundert
Op de Markt 25 woonden de zusters Van de Burgh, de peettantes van Vincent van Gogh.
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Markt 254881 CN Zundert
Van Gogh monument Zadkine
Het beeld van Vincent en Theo van Gogh is een standbeeld dat Vincent van Gogh en zijn broer Theo innig verstrengeld, maar geabstraheerd toont.
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Vincent van goghplein4881 DG Zundert
Van Goghkerkje Zundert
Vincent groeide op als zoon van dominee Theodorus van Gogh die in deze kerk in Zundert preekte.
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van Goghplein 14881 DA Zundert
Graf broer Vincent van Gogh
Op het kerkhof is nog steeds het graf te vinden van het oudste broertje van Vincent dat dood geboren werd. Dat was precies een jaar voor de geboorte van Vincent zelf.
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Van Goghplein 14881 DA Zundert
Kosterwoning Zundert
Naast het kerkje waar Vincents vader Theodorus 'Dorus' van Gogh dominee was, staat een klein huisje dat in 1862/63 op aanraden van Vincents vader werd aangekocht door de Nederlandse Hervormde gemeente van Zundert.
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Sint Elisabethlaan 14881 DA Zundert
De Tuintjes
Het gebied ‘De Tuintjes’ is een wirwar van zandpaden, omgeven door beukenhagen.
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PastoorsdreefZundert
Grote Beek / Aa of Weerijs
De Aa of Weerijs is gevormd door smeltwater van de laatste ijstijd. Het stroomgebied van de Aa of Weerijs strekt zich uit van de Belgische grens tot aan Breda.
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Aa of WeerijsZundert
Beekdalenlandschap Zundert
Het Beekdalenlandschap is een van de kerngebieden van het Van Gogh Nationaal Park. Bossen zoals het Mastbos, het Liesbos en het Ulvenhoutse Bos behoren tot de oudste van Nederland.
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MeirsewegZundert
De Akkermolen
De Akkermolen is een zogenoemde standaardmolen. Van Gogh zal hem gedurende zijn jeugdjaren in Zundert zeker gezien hebben. Je passeert deze bijzondere molen bij de Van Gogh Nationaal Park Wandeling Zundert.
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AkkermolenAkkermolenweg 13
Zundert
Sint Willibrorduskerk
De Sint-Willibrorduskerk is een rooms-katholieke kerk aan de Klein Zundertseweg in Zundert. De kerk uit 1911 in neoromaanse stijl is ontworpen door architect Jan Stuyt, in samenwerking met Joseph Cuypers.
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Jan KoekenpleinZundert
Assortimentstuin en de Kleine Beek
Een stukje nieuwe natuur: de Assortimentstuin. Dit werd bedoeld als promotie voor de Zundertse groene sector.
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Kleine BeekZundert
De Tuinderij
De tuin (een groene ontmoetingsplaats in wording) en natuurzone de Kleine Beek vormen samen met landschapszone de Tuinderij een gebied waar flora en fauna de dorpskern kussen.
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BeeklaanZundert
Vincent van GoghHuis
The Vincent van GoghHuis: a living arts centre in the birthplace of Brabant’s most famous artist ever, stands on the spot where Vincent van Gogh came into the world on 30 March 1853.
Starting point:
Markt 264881 CN Zundert
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Story of the route
Vincent van GoghHuis
The Vincent van GoghHuis: a living arts centre in the birthplace of Brabant’s most famous artist ever, stands on the spot where Vincent van Gogh came into the world on 30 March 1853.
Starting point:
Markt 264881 CN Zundert
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At the location of the current Vincent van Gogh House (1) once stood the former rectory of the Netherlands Reformed Congregation. The original house where Vincent was born was demolished in 1903.
His birth was recorded at the Zundert Townhall (2). Little Vincent briefly followed education at the village school, which was diagonally across from the residential home, Markt 2.
Vincent’s godmothers, the Van de Burgh sisters, lived at Markt 25 (3). He went there regularly. On this spot, the building has been reconstructed as it was in Van Gogh’s time. And as such it has retained its historic appearance.
On the Van Gogh Square, the statue, ‘Vincent en Theo’ (5) by artist Ossip Zadkine reminds us of the strong bond between Vincent and his brother.
The church (4) originally belonged to the Netherlands Reformed Congregation and dates from 1805. Vincent’s father was the minister here from 1849 to 1871. The graveyard (6) is the resting place of Vincent’s stillborn brother. This silent place must have made quite an impression on him.
The former Sexton’s House (7) has been in use as the Van Gogh Gallery since 2008. The kitchen garden was behind the building. The Van Gogh family grew fruit and vegetables there. For the past few years, it has been a studio where artists can work and be inspired by the place where Vincent grew up.
‘De tuintjes’ (the little gardens) is a maze of sandy paths surrounded by beech hedges. Vincent must have walked these paths often. And possibly with a bucket and scoop net, towards the banks of the River Aa of Weerijs, or the Grote Beek (Great Brook).
Vincent caught insects while wandering through this damp area. In his room in the vicarage, he pinned them and added detailed descriptions. Van Gogh greatly admired nature, farmers and craftspeople. Also the craft of the miller.
De Akkermolen (windmill) (11) stood here in Van Gogh’s time.
Via the babbling Kleine Beek (Small Brook) we arrive in Klein-Zundert. Vincent walked here regularly, and we go on towards the Pannenhof nature area. This area is central to the Van Gogh National Park Walk Etten-Leur.
Walking over the old cobblestones by the church, we get to a new area of natural scenery: the Assortimentstuin. In the past, this was developed as a shop window for the Zundert tree cultivators. Together, the garden (a green meeting place in the making) and the Kleine Beek nature zone form the Tuinderij landscape zone, a location where flora and fauna kiss the village centre. In the Tuinderij residential district, street names such as Boomgaard, Spitter and Zaaier refer to Van Gogh’s sketches and paintings.
Vincent van GoghHuis
The Vincent van GoghHuis: a living arts centre in the birthplace of Brabant’s most famous artist ever, stands on the spot where Vincent van Gogh came into the world on 30 March 1853.
Starting point:
Markt 264881 CN Zundert
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