Visits
Everybody is welcome to visit the trench site and see the faults. However, in order to allow us to do the necessary work in the trench we would like to organise the visits at specific dates. Two kinds of visits will be organised.
A first official visit will be held at Friday 11/04/2003 afternoon. This visit is aimed at people from the press, surrounding communities, the business partners of NIRAS and companies. This visit will start at SCK with a film and presentations about the trench and later a bus will take us to the trench. More info
More scientific visits will be organised on Friday 18/04/2003, Wednesday 23/04/2003 and on Friday 25/04/2003. These visits are aimed at scientists but also people who are just interested to see what we are doing. We will be present to welcome you between 10:30 and 16:00. Please contact us on mobile phone (+32-473-518252) or by email (l.wouters@nirond.be).
-How to get there?
Location map
Detailed map
From Brussels (or Leuven): take highway A3/E40 in direction Luik. Take exit Leuven to the highway A2/E314 in direction Luik. Take exit 22 Aarschot and turn left at the traffic lights. Continue straight ahead on the N223 and then the R25 the ring around Aarschot pass 3 traffic lights. At round point turn right to the Terheidelaan. Pass the traffic lines and the bridge over the railway and then turn left in the direction of Herselt/Westerlo, on the Herseltsesteenweg. Continue always straight ahead on the main road, through Herselt and around Westerlo (Westerlosesteenweg, de Merodedreef, Zandberg, Westerloseweg). At the traffic lights in the town of Zammel, turn Left on the Grote steenweg, direction Geel. Continue straight ahead, over the highway and the canal (snelwegstraat), passed the traffic lights (antwerpseweg N19) until you arrive at the round point at the ring around Geel. Turn right on the R14 in the direction of Mol & Lommel. Continue straight-ahead (Molseweg N71, Zuiderring N71) pass several round points and traffic lights; pass the town of Mol and the bridge over a canal. 400 m after the bridge over the canal turn left in the direction of Rauw (Kiezelweg). At the first traffic lights turn left in the direction of Postel (Postelsesteenweg). Continue straight ahead, over the two wooden bridges over a canal. At about 1 km passed the canal turn right in the direction of “Steen van de 7 Heerlijkheden” on a small gravel road (Russendorp) lined with white concrete columns and a bicycle road. Follow this road for 1.5 km and you will find the trench on your right side.
From Antwerp: On the ring at exit 17 Borgerhout take the A13/E34/E313 in the direction of Hasselt Luik. At exit 19 Ranst turn right to leave the E313 and join the A21/E34 in the direction of Turnhout Eindhoven. Continue up to exit 26 Retie. At this exit turn right on the Europalaan in the direction of Retie. Continue until you are in the town of Retie (Kerkhofstraat). Before the traffic lights turn left to the Kloosterstraat in the direction of Postel. Continue always straight ahead (Hulselstraat, Brand, Postelsebaan, Kasteelstraat), over the canal, until you arrive at the T crossing in Postel. Turn right in the direction of Mol & Balen along the road (Postel). Continue straight ahead for about 3 km (before the side road to Dessel and the canal). Turn left in the direction of “Steen van de 7 Heerlijkheden” on a small gravel road (Russendorp) lined with white concrete columns and a bicycle road. Follow this road for 1.5 km and you will find the trench on your right side.
From other locations: consult a routeplanner and type as destination