About the Maasheggen

In the Land van Cuijk, on the border of Noord-Brabant and Limburg, braided hedges have been used for thousands of years to demarcate meadows. This has created a landscape that you see nowhere else: The Maasheggen. It is the oldest cultural landscape in the Netherlands and has Unesco Man & Biosphere status.

The mosaic of hedges, meadows, drinking pools and old pollarded trees is beautiful to see and is home to a special variety of plant and animal species. The hedges are still functional: they keep cattle in and predators out. That culture and nature have been intertwined in the same way and on such a large scale through the braid hedges for centuries is something you see in few other places in the Netherlands.