The pearl routes are interactive walking routes. Due to circumstances, the pearl routes can currently only be found in an adapted way on this website. Below you will find the text and the link to accompanying videos that you can watch on the way for the relevant topics. There are both Dutch and German (DU) videos available. We wish you a lot of fun during your walk!
You have now found a sentence. You will find this phrase during your route. So keep looking around! Have you found the pearl? Then keep looking. The pearls are scattered all over Zeeland! Search and find them all!
Didn't manage to find all the letters or do you want to know the right answers? Then check out the answers here.
Here you can discover for yourself what can be found in the creek. Look through the periscope at the water surface or fish water from the creek. If you prefer to add water, use the pump and see how the water flows. All this in a historical place, namely on parts of the old sea dike.
Question 5: At which location are you? Take the last letter of this.
Construction of this Catholic church began in 1325. A lot less wide back then, about 11 metres. Dedicated to Peter and Paul. But from 1540 it is St Nicholas, who among other things protects people at sea.
In the hundreds of years that followed, the church expanded more and more into the church it is today. 82.5 metres long, 28.5 metres wide and almost 25 metres high! If you look closely, you can see that the wooden vault rests on carved figures, chalk statues. It's a good thing they sit so high, because that's probably why they survived the iconoclasm.
St Nicholas Church has had to endure more, though. The two largest glass windows next to the organ were destroyed by a storm in the early 1800s. They were subsequently bricked up. And the 1953 flood disaster also caused a lot of damage. And if that wasn't enough, some 40 years after that came the death watch beetle. They love wood and there is plenty of it in this church. Fortunately, the church has been well restored several times, so we can enjoy this beautiful church where history is there for the taking.