Road Between Gemert and Handel – Telefoonstraat loop from Venhorst
Road Between Gemert and Handel – Telefoonstraat loop from Venhorst
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Road Between Gemert and Handel – Telefoonstraat loop from Venhorst
01:34
39.7km
40m
Road cycling
Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: August 19, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Parking
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1.96 km
Polderzicht Playground Venhorst
Highlight • Rest Area
9.27 km
Vintage Tractor on Wooden Post
Highlight • Structure
13.3 km
Maria Chapel Knipperdul
Highlight • Religious Site
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33.8 km
Road Between Gemert and Handel
Highlight • Cycleway
34.1 km
Handel
Highlight • Settlement
Around 1800, the drifting sand posed a threat to Bakel, De Mortel and Handel. The crops in the fields were buried by the drifting sand that blew off the heathland around the villages. In those days, Gemert-Bakel looked a lot like a desert.
The cause was that the cattle had eaten all the vegetation and the farmers had cut too many heath and grass sods to fertilise the fields. This created large bare patches of sand. Fortunately, most of the sand was captured in the trees and shrubs of the Handel rampart. A rampart of oak trees was often constructed specifically to capture the sand around the fields. In Handel, this rampart was up to 8 metres high; the Handelse mountains. The highest parts of the rampart were dug up for construction sand in the mid-20th century.
Artificial fertiliser was invented around 1850. The sod cutting is no longer necessary and the heath can recover. Unlike cover sand, which is bright blond in colour, drift sand has a slightly greyish-grey colour. This is because humus-rich topsoil has been blown along with it. In the municipality of Gemert-Bakel, there are also beautiful drift sand areas at Stippelberg, Esp, Hoogen-Aarle and on the Grotelsche Heide. But nowhere in Gemert-Bakel is the edge wall as well developed as at Handel.
source: heerlijckvrijspel.nl
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34.4 km
Church of the Assumption of Mary, Handel
Highlight • Religious Site
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38.4 km
Telefoonstraat
Highlight • Cycleway
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39.7 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
26.8 km
11.3 km
890 m
453 m
270 m
Surfaces
32.9 km
5.24 km
1.13 km
422 m
< 100 m
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Sunday 30 August
22°C
15°C
95 %
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