Neighbourhoods with character
Ommen, Witharen, Arriën
Ommen is surrounded by a beautiful and diverse landscape. Dark forests, country estates, farming landscapes, moraines and dunes. The diversity is due to the 14 hamlets that are part of the municipality of Ommen. These are the names of the hamlets in alphabetical order: Archem, Arriën, Beerze, Beerzerveld, Besthmen, Dalmsholte, Eerde, Giethmen, Hoogengraven, Junne, Nieuwebrug, Ommerkanaal, Ommerschans, Stegeren, Varsen, Vinkenbuurt and Witharen. The history of these hamlets begins with Overijsselse Vecht. East of Dalfsen, this wide river had plenty of room to meander through the landscape. The regularly flooding Vecht left sand banks behind and was almost stationary in some places. It was a peaceful landscape. As early as prehistoric times, the first farms appeared on the sandy soils along the Vecht. The soil was very fertile but to provide the ever-growing population with enough food, the surrounding wasteland such as heathland, peat bogs and ponds also had to be used. To avoid getting in each other's way, the farmers made verbal agreements on the use of the land they came to regard as common property. The neighbours of neighbouring farms formed a hamlet (boerschap). In the 13th century, many informal hamlets started organising themselves in the form of a marke. The rights and duties of the residents who were part of the marke were written down in marke books. The usage rights of the wasteland were distributed as a kind of share, the so-called wares. The marke were run by an official administration. The basic principle remained, that the inhabitants were only allowed to use the common lands for their own subsistence needs, to avoid their depletion. Yet, after hundreds of years, this small-scale farming came to an end with the advent of artificial fertilisers in the nineteenth century. In some places, the moors and their sheep gave way to pastures or planted forests. Due to the Marches Act, some peatlands of hamlets came into the hands of large landowners who started large-scale peat extraction. This cycle route introduces you to some of Ommen's most beautiful hamlets. Discover the varied nature and contemporary initiatives. The self-service ferry between nodes 66 and 67 is only operational between 1 April and 1 November. Outside this period, use node numbers 49 and 42 from node 48 to get to node 65. This Premium cycle route was compiled by our editor: Elwin Croeze.
| Directions | Distance | Total distance | |
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Start: het Laar 2c, 7731 AV Ommen | 28.3 KM | |
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From
49
to
44
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2114 M | 2.1 KM | |
| Head south on het Laar | 731 M | ||
| Turn left onto Stationsweg | 27 M | ||
| Turn right to stay on Stationsweg | 50 M | ||
| Turn left | 8 M | ||
| Continue onto de Kamp | 588 M | ||
| Turn left onto Bergweg | 710 M | ||
| You are now at section 44 | 0 M | ||
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From
44
to
72
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2311 M | 2.3 KM | |
| Head southwest on Bergweg | 16 M | ||
| Make a slight right to stay on Bergweg | 69 M | ||
| Turn right onto Batterinkweg | 656 M | ||
| Turn right onto Bergweg | 33 M | ||
| Turn right | 50 M | ||
| Make a slight right onto Giethemer kerkpad | 1.1 KM | ||
| Keep left onto Giethemer kerkpad | 378 M | ||
| You are now at section 72 | 0 M | ||
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From
72
to
48
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2859 M | 2.9 KM | |
| Head northwest on Oude Hammerweg | 291 M | ||
| Turn right onto Koedijk | 745 M | ||
| Make a slight left to stay on Koedijk | 1.3 KM | ||
| Turn right onto Nieuwedijk | 504 M | ||
| You are now at section 48 | 0 M | ||
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From
48
to
67
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1375 M | 1.4 KM | |
| Head northwest on Nieuwedijk | 7 M | ||
| Continue straight | 12 M | ||
| Turn left onto Vilsterseweg | 1.4 KM | ||
| You are now at section 67 | 0 M | ||
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From
67
to
66
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287 M | 0.3 KM | |
| Head northeast | 193 M | ||
| Take the ferry Pont Varsen | 69 M | ||
| Continue straight | 25 M | ||
| You are now at section 66 | 0 M | ||
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From
66
to
65
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1495 M | 1.5 KM | |
| Head east on OudeWelle pad | 222 M | ||
| Turn right onto Larinkmars | 798 M | ||
| Turn right to stay on Larinkmars | 312 M | ||
| Turn left to stay on Larinkmars | 163 M | ||
| You are now at section 65 | 0 M | ||
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From
65
to
64
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2852 M | 2.9 KM | |
| Head north on Varsenerweg | 876 M | ||
| Make a slight right | 72 M | ||
| Turn left onto Varsenerdijk | 17 M | ||
| Turn right onto Hessenweg West | 104 M | ||
| Turn left onto Oude Woestendijk | 1.8 KM | ||
| You are now at section 64 | 0 M | ||
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From
64
to
40
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3397 M | 3.4 KM | |
| Head northwest on Oude Woestendijk | 1.1 KM | ||
| Make a slight right onto Witharenweg | 2.3 KM | ||
| Continue straight | 6 M | ||
| You are now at section 40 | 0 M | ||
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From
40
to
9
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3269 M | 3.3 KM | |
| Head south on Balkerweg | 199 M | ||
| Turn left onto de Haar | 2.6 KM | ||
| Turn right onto de Haar | 513 M | ||
| You are now at section 09 | 0 M | ||
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From
9
to
43
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4503 M | 4.5 KM | |
| Head southwest on Ommerkanaal West | 51 M | ||
| Turn left onto Arriërveldsweg | 4.3 KM | ||
| Turn left onto Brinkweg | 126 M | ||
| Enter Brink and take the 1st exit | 12 M | ||
| You are now at section 43 | 0 M | ||
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From
43
to
42
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2035 M | 2 KM | |
| Head southwest on Hardenbergerweg | 626 M | ||
| Turn left to stay on Hardenbergerweg | 159 M | ||
| Turn left onto van Wassenaar van Obdamstraat | 201 M | ||
| Continue right onto Doormanstraat | 724 M | ||
| Turn left onto Hessel Mulertstraat | 180 M | ||
| Make a slight left onto den Oordt | 145 M | ||
| You are now at section 42 | 0 M | ||
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From
42
to
49
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1762 M | 1.8 KM | |
| Head west on den Oordt | 19 M | ||
| Turn left onto Prinses Julianastraat | 153 M | ||
| Turn left onto Zeesserweg | 4 M | ||
| Continue onto Zeesserweg | 444 M | ||
| Turn right onto Schapenallee | 339 M | ||
| Turn right onto Stationsweg | 259 M | ||
| Turn left | 5 M | ||
| Continue onto Koesteeg | 539 M | ||
| You are now at section 49 | 0 M |