Heeze-Leende and Groote Heide

The Landscape

Heeze and Leende are often mentioned in the same breath. And for good reason. The two villages not only form the municipality of Heeze-Leende, but they also share a beautifully green and natural setting. Both lie on the edge of vast nature areas filled with farmlands, forests, heathlands, and shimmering fens. Leende even boasts the highest amount of nature per inhabitant in the Netherlands. Just outside Heeze lies the Beuven, at 85 hectares, the largest fen in the country, glistening in the open, sweeping heathlands of the Strabrechtse Heide.

Between Eindhoven and the Belgian border lies the Cross-Border Nature Park De Groote Heide: a vast landscape of forests, heathlands, fens, and ancient farmland. This cross-border region connects North Brabant with Belgian Limburg and surprises visitors with its rich variety: open heath, quiet deciduous forests, mysterious fens, and sandy ridges flow seamlessly into one another. Everywhere you go, traces of centuries-old human presence are visible. Ancient church paths, burial mounds, and remnants of historic farmland tell the story of a landscape shaped by both nature and people, always in motion.