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Klein Amelgem Farm – Footpath 64 loop from Wemmel

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Klein Amelgem Farm – Footpath 64 loop from Wemmel

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Klein Amelgem Farm – Footpath 64 loop from Wemmel

02:12

8.25km

70m

Hiking

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: June 28, 2026

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1.60 km

Chapel of the Nativity of Our Lady

Highlight • Religious Site

The Chapel is dedicated to the Birth of Our Lady.
The Birth of Mary or the Birth of the Mother of God is a Marian feast in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church, which is celebrated annually on September 8. Orthodoxy celebrates Mary's birth with a separate liturgy, in the Catholic Church it is considered a feast. The feast celebrates the birth of Mary, daughter of Anna and Joachim.
(kapelvanamelgem.be)

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1.79 km

Groot Amelgem Farm

Highlight • Historical Site

The Devil's Barn is a place with a story and definitely worth a highlight.
The story goes like this:
"A farmer who couldn't build a barn himself, makes a pact with the devil using his own soul. When the rooster crows three times in the morning, the devil had to finish the barn. The farmer's wife outsmarts the duo. She gets up at night to wake the rooster. When the rooster crows three times in the night, the barn is not quite ready. The farmer keeps his soul, but the hole in the roof of the barn has never been closed. ..."

Dependently, the Devil's Barn (1636) belonged to one large farm complex.
At the end of the 17th century, this whole was split into two farms: Klein - Amelgem, located in the depths, and Groot - Amelgem on the ridge. The Devil's Barn is part of the Groot - Amelgemhoeve.

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2.06 km

Klein Amelgem Farm

Highlight • Historical Site

According to J. Verbesselt, Amelgem is a typical example of a domain that has retained its original unity and structure over the centuries, with the exception of a brief interruption. At the basis of the current hamlet was - still according to the same author - a Gallo-Roman villa, built against the southern flank of the west-southwest - east-north-east oriented loam ridge that forms the watershed between the Zenne basin and the Rupel basin. The presence of a road on the crest of this ridge and about 700 meters from the hamlet reinforces the likelihood of a Gallo-Roman origin, all the more so since this road is roughly on the line from Asse to Elewijt. Verbesselt also refers to the division of the domain into three fields or "campa" of approximately identical surface area, which together formed 148 acres or 12 "mansi".
(Inventory of immovable heritage)

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3.57 km