Recreation The Rutbeek - 4 Things to Know Before Visiting

The Buurserzand is a nature reserve near Haaksbergen in Overijssel. The largest part of the Buurserzand consists of dry heathland on old drifting sand with scrub heather and gorse. It is managed by the Vereniging Natuurmonumenten and consists largely of forest and heath. There are a few orchid meadows on wet grasslands with, among other things, spotted orchid and bell gentian.

The Museum Buurtspoorweg operates a museum railway between Haaksbergen and Boekelo in Overijssel . The foundation was established on February 21, 1967 and on June 23, 1989, it was the first railway company besides the Nederlandse Spoorwegen to obtain a transport concession for the Haaksbergen – Boekelo section.

The Volkspark is a park in Enschede from 1872 . It is the oldest Volkspark in the Netherlands, founded after the English example. A bequest from Hendrik Jan van Heek made it possible to furnish the park on the former Goolkate estate . The largest part was designed in English landscape style by Dirk Wattez, designer of many gardens in Twente . Characteristic of Wattez's work are the strongly meandering serpentine ponds. His son Pieter restored much of his work and also used sight axes.

A beautiful museum, which was founded in 1927 by textile industry Baron Jan Bernard Van Heek. He donated his own private collection and the museum building to the government, thus making it a national museum. Now the museum has become focused on 18th-century art as well as contemporary works, with the collection of Art & Project, a former art gallery owned by Geert van Beijeren and Adriaan van Ravesteijn

The Museum Factory is a museum in Enschede that was called TwentseWelle before May 2018. The Museum Factory is a family museum where the future is discovered through learning, playing, working, thinking, experimenting and dreaming. The exhibitions inspire young and old to learn and to invent, try and assemble things themselves. That can be done in the factory. The historical collections of the museum are always the great source of inspiration.

The Haaksbergerveen is a sub-area in the Buurserzand & Haaksbergerveen . It is a high moor-like nature reserve of approximately 500 hectares in the border area of ​​the Dutch province of Overijssel and Germany. It is located south of Enschede in the east of the municipality of Haaksbergen. The Haaksbergerveen largely consists of a partly excavated raised moor area.