With the Archeo Route Limburg you will discover the stories behind Limburg's history and archaeology. The most important spots of this route are marked with a work of art in the form of a spear.
If you want to stop an advancing army, you must protect your territory with a formidable defense. To keep the hostile Gullik and Gelre out of Brabant territory in the Land of Valkenburg, the defenders set up the Brunssum army in the fifteenth century.
The land defense proved a maddening obstacle, which thwarted the enemy both on the attack and on the retreat. Attackers broke down on an impressive construction of more than twenty meters wide, with a spire moat and two ramparts.
The defenses were part of a much larger land fortification, which stretched all the way from the swamp area between Gangelt and Schinveld to Nieuwenhagen.
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