The best dog-friendly hikes and walks in Hurwenense Uiterwaard

A.C. van Boxtel, here freely translated: "Sientje's café" has been an attraction for sailors, fishermen, commercial travelers, or the average person who enjoys a drink, for almost two hundred years. Ships were often seen struggling against the wind or ships perishing. At least twice, a ship was seen sinking in a storm from the café. These were brought out of oblivion by the dredging work in the fifties. The café became a popular stopping point for sailors, but people also found their way there over land via the dike. From: Drielse Vertellingen

The former Reformed Church is a hall church built in 1719, partly with material from its predecessor, and is located on a hill. It has furniture from the 18th century, such as a pulpit, lecterns and a chandelier. It once housed a clock museum. Until 2021, it housed the Dutch roof tile museum. Since 2024, it has been used as an event location.

The St. Hubertus Church from 1873 was designed by Arnoldus van Veggel and is a good example of early neo-Gothic. Before that, Catholics attended church in a barn church, which was regularly flooded. During the Second World War, the church was damaged, but the Allies caught the Germans, who wanted to blow up the tower, in time, so that the tower was preserved. The organ dates from 1880 and was built by the Gradussen brothers.

Rossum Castle is a castle in the northeast of the village of the same name Rossum in the municipality of Maasdriel in the Bommelerwaard in the Dutch province of Gelderland. The exact date of construction is not known, but it was probably built in the 13th century as a country residence for the Van Rossum family.

The Stuversgemaal is an inlet pumping station for the Bommelerwaard. During dry periods, water is let in from the Maas (the hole of Sientje, (a dammed part of the Maas) to maintain water levels. The pumping station was completed in 1961 and is named after Dijkgraaf J.E. Stuvers, dike grapher of the Bommelerwaard polder district above the Meidijk from 1967 to 1968 and then dike manager until 1978 of the combined polder district of Bommelerwaard. The pumping station is equipped with an electrically driven vertical open screw pump and has a capacity of 80-120 m3 at heads of 3.6 to 1 meter respectively engine, originally made by Heemaf, was replaced at an unknown time.

Changes in the course of the river - as here - often led to changes in the administrative affiliations of the towns and communities. Sometimes, however, the responsibilities remained the same, so that suddenly a community had territory on both banks of the Meuse or the Rhine.

Nice natural place that sometimes gets flooded.

In the 1860s, the poor German Wouter Schiffer came to the Netherlands in search of work. He ended up in Engelen in Brabant, married the eldest daughter of the schoolmaster there and quickly managed to climb the social ladder. For example, in 1774 and 1780 he was named as representative of the Lord of Empel in the leasing and sale of land. In 1777 and 1781 Wouter Schiffer was even listed as mayor of the manor of Empel and Meerwijk. In 1792 he bought “a considerable house” on the Maasdijk in Alem for 2020 guilders. It would have been the largest house in Alem at that time, with a number of large rooms and one floor and a large piece of land. Source and more information: www dodeakkers.nl