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Starting point Vogelenzang 77 afbeelding

Routes from this starting point

Doodweg Route (blue)
Unpaved path (partly)
3.47km
Jamboree Route (red)
Unpaved path (partly) No dogs allowed
4.7km

Vogelenzang is located on one of the old beach ridges behind the dunes. Bulb cultivation has traditionally been done on the geest lands in between. In the spring, the colourful carpets of blooms stand out against the wooded dunes and beach ridges. Until the Middle Ages there was forest, 'De Hout', that stretched from Leiden to Alkmaar and was the hunting ground of the Counts of Holland. The ’t Huis te Vogelenzang manor house dates from the 17th century and stands on the spot where Count Floris V once built a hunting lodge. Archaeological finds from the Bronze Age show that the history of habitation goes back much further.

 

  • The Doodweg Route (blue) connects the church path through the meadows with the Tweede Doodweg between the bulb fields and the old village centre of Vogelenzang. The Doodweg once continued as part of the Buurweg between the abbeys of Rijnsburg and Egmond, a road that was supposed to be maintained by the ‘buren’ ('neighbours'), i.e. the residents. Before the church in Vogelenzang was built in 1861, Catholics brought their dead across this Doodweg to the cemetery in Overveen. The 'Tweede' (Second) is added because there was also a Doodweg in Aerdenhout.
  • The Jamboree Route (red) is named after the World Jamboree the Boy Scouts held here in 1937. The meadows were insufficient for this festival, so people even ended up camping on the Leyduin estate. The route passes the Teylingerbosch and 't Huis the Vogelenzang estates and along the old centre of the village and its eastern edges.