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Midden Buggenhoutbos Car Park – Shelter Buggenhoutbos loop from Buggenhout

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Midden Buggenhoutbos Car Park – Shelter Buggenhoutbos loop from Buggenhout

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Midden Buggenhoutbos Car Park – Shelter Buggenhoutbos loop from Buggenhout

01:02

4.04km

10m

Hiking

Easy hike. Great for any fitness level. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 24, 2026

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Start point

Bus stop

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87 m

Midden Buggenhoutbos Car Park

Highlight • Parking

Opposite the forest chapel. And you can immediately enter the forest.

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631 m

Shelter Buggenhoutbos

Highlight • Mountain Hut

If you are looking for it, it is useful to know that you can find a sheltered picnic area here. Don't forget to take your own waste with you.

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631 m

Forest Gazebo with Panoramic View

Highlight • Mountain Hut

This shelter is located in a more open place in the forest. You have a lot of space there. Opposite the shelter, children have built a camp. It is a nice place to stay for a while, also with children.

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1.25 km

The Boshuis becomes Windschuur - Buggenhout

Highlight • Structure

After almost 90 years, the forest house was demolished to make way for a ‘wind shed’ as a storage place for the equipment of the ANB forest management (suitably integrated into the forest environment).
The Forest House was built in the 1930s as a hunting lodge. The bronze fire bell is a reminder of this. It was used to call the hunters together after the hunt. In 1936, the Belgian state bought a large part of the Buggenhout forest. The hunting lodge became the forest ranger's house. Three generations of forest rangers have lived there. The last one left the house in the summer of 2012.
With the demolition of the Forest House, the existing red-brown beech avenue forms a new entrance to the forest. The entrance is opposite the municipal car park, which relieves the forest car park at the forest chapel and allows forest visitors to spread out more.

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3.89 km

Rosary Way (Procession) at the Forest Chapel - Buggenhout

Highlight • Religious Site

In the immediate vicinity of the Boskapel, the fifteen stations or Secrets of the Holy Rosary (a series of prayers to Our Lady) were founded in 1949 by Octave Tondeleir and Son, from Oude God near Antwerp. The scenes are depicted in rock sculptures made of cement rustic, one of which bears the inscription: "Tondeleir Oct. rock construction paysagiste", by the renowned cement rustic firm Tondeleir. In the center of the procession, behind the chapel, is a calvary painted white. The same procession of the company Tondeleir is located at the Chapel of Our Lady of Kerselare near Oudenaarde and this company also worked in the famous Mariapark of Averbode.
(Inventory of Immovable Heritage)

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3.93 km

The Seven Sorrows of Mary

Highlight • Religious Site

On the outer walls of the Boskapel you will find terracotta bas-reliefs depicting the Stations of the Seven Sorrows (or Seven Woes) of Our Lady. These seven stations were placed on the outer walls of the nave and the rear wall of the choir and were made in 1858 by P.F. Van Passel from Brussels and restored in 1885 by the Ghent sculptor Joris Dunstheimer. The Seven Sorrows are: the flight into Egypt, the circumcision or presentation in the temple, the twelve-year-old Jesus in the temple, the capture of Jesus or the carrying of the cross, the Crucifixion, the Descent from the Cross and the Entombment.
(Inventory of Immovable Heritage)

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3.95 km

Forest Chapel of Our Lady of Distress (Buggenhout Forest)

Highlight • Religious Site

The Boskapel was founded in the early 16th century by Jacoba van Heffene, the widow of knight Jan de Rijcke, drossaard of Grimbergen and Buggenhout, on the spot where the knight was killed by a wild boar on 4 December 1504 during a hunting party. A statue of the Distress of God was placed in the chapel and gradually the small place of worship was visited more and more. The chapel was partly destroyed and robbed by the iconoclasts at the end of the 16th century. The statue of the Distress of God could be saved by the parishioners, but the memorial stone for Jan de Rijcke was destroyed. After the siege of peace, the chapel again became an important place of worship. However, the place of worship soon became too small and Princess Ernestine van Arenbergh, wife of Alexander II de Bournonville, Prince of Buggenhout, insisted on an extension of the chapel. She died in 1663 without any changes to the chapel, but ordered in her will to make a stone facade statue of Our Lady in Distress (Pieta).
The wife of Knight Jan van Boom, Martina van Waerbeke, the great-granddaughter of the deceased drossaard, agreed with Prince Alexander to enlarge the chapel. Work started in 1664 and was completed in 1667. The old chapel was preserved and was integrated as the choir of a new, more spacious place of worship. The front building was 13 meters long and 7.5 meters wide and was built in Rupelmond brick with a vault in white stone. The bell tower on the chapel dates from 1764.
The Boskapel grew into a true place of pilgrimage and in 1683 and 1773 Pope Innocent XI and Pope Clemens XIV granted a plenary indulgence on the third Sunday after Easter. During the French Revolution the chapel was closed, but from May 1798 the ceremonies in the chapel were resumed and continued uninterrupted.
In 1885 the chapel was repaired by Janssens-Lammens from Ghent and restored in the third quarter of the 20th century at the initiative of the parish priest.
(Inventory of Immovable Heritage)

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End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

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2.69 km

763 m

309 m

249 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

1.34 km

1.11 km

1.00 km

309 m

265 m

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Midden Buggenhoutbos Car Park – Shelter Buggenhoutbos loop from Buggenhout

Midden Buggenhoutbos Car Park

Shelter Buggenhoutbos

Forest Gazebo with Panoramic View

The Boshuis becomes Windschuur - Buggenhout

Rosary Way (Procession) at the Forest Chapel - Buggenhout

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