De Hoge Veluwe National Park
De Hoghe Veluwe is a national park in the Netherlands in the province of Gelderland. The park’s ownership is small, only 55 km2, but nonetheless nature is quite interesting. Here there are such types of reliefs as: sands, vast territories overgrown with heather, swamps, coniferous forests. Sand appeared due to improper use of farmland. Since the sand layer is very large, water cannot soak into the ground, and swamps appeared.
On the basis of the De Hoge Veluwe National Park, the spouses Helena Kröller-Muller and Anton Kreoller insisted. Spouses even from their hunting site made a small reserve. They brought mufflons and kangaroos here. And already in the 1930s, the Netherlands decided to buy these lands, paying a park of 800,000 guilders. With this money, the couple founded a fund that was also given into the hands of the state, and also promised that Helena Kröller-Muller would exhibit her art collection in the park. In 1935, a unique private park appeared in the Netherlands, for admission to which a fee is taken, and all the money goes to land development. More than three hundred thousand tourists visit the park annually.
In addition to the Kroeller-Muller Museum of Spheres, on the lands of De Hoghe-Veluve Park you can see the hunting lodge of St. Hubert, which was built by the architect Berlage in 1919. You can enter the park itself with 3 entrances where the board is taken. There you can also take a special white bike, with an agreement that you will not leave for the park on it and do not close it to the castle.
Of the representatives of the animal world in De Hog Veluva, it is easy to meet herds of roe deer, spotted deer, as well as mouflons. You can see small mammals: hares, badgers, martens, squirrels.
