Mollendaal Forest

Thick Oak.

From the center of Bierbeek you walk through an open landscape in the direction of the Mollendaal forest. Here the thick oaks will stand out, those are oaks with a circumference of more than 2.5 meters. At junction 72 you reach the shelter at “De Moemedel”. 'Delle' is a valley in which various sources originate. Then you walk on beautiful forest roads where the stately beech trees will certainly stand out. You will find the oldest oak in this forest on the Dikke Eikdreef. This monumental oak is more than 300 years old and has a trunk of more than 5 meters in circumference. In the 1970s, the life of this giant was threatened , when one of the branches was torn off during a storm and seriously injured the trunk. The tree survived and is currently more vital than ever. In the Walendreef you will pass two unique sculptures. Local artist Ad Wouters made the tree sculptures 'the whistle of little luck' and 'the woodpecker' in the trunks of two dead oaks. You continue through the forest to suddenly get a beautiful panorama of the vast fields. Through an open landscape and picturesque hollow roads you walk further through the Schavaai. Schavaai is a dialect for fagots and also the name of the offshoot of the mighty Meerdaal forest that reaches here. You go back past several centuries-old farms and the Mollendaal brook to the Sint-Hilarius church, the starting point.

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