The Liberation of Limburg
On September 12, 1944, the villages of Mesch, Mheer and Noorbeek in the far south of Limburg were liberated. At the time, no one thought it possible that liberation would come for the rest of the province six months later, nor that it would be by sharp contrasts.

Maria-Gelofte (Maria Vow) Memorial
contemporary

Baarlo Resistance Monument
historical

Art treasures in the caves
historical

German retreat
contemporary

Private David McKellar
audiospot

Bridges over the river Geul
historical

The cathedral tower is blown up!
audiospot

Monument to the Fallen Dutch Soldiers
contemporary

Nightmare in Montfort
audiospot

Noorbeek the first village to be liberated?

'And then they were gone...'

Kapel in 't Zand Cemetery

Leudal Museum

13 September Memorial Stone

Lock Force monument

Thorn in the frontline

The Capture of Gennep

The Vanished Grave

Mine shaft shower facility

War Museum Overloon
museum

Maastricht Shelter Museum
museum

Stories in stained glass

Monument for the Suffolk Liberators at the Weert City Bridge

German defence line

Overloon, a second Ypres

Museum Air War 1939-1945

Venlo Hilton

Martinus Tower and Visitor's Centre

German War Cemetery

Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial
other

Monument at the Julianaplantsoen

The Bridge Builders

Middelaar in spiritual exile

Stand firm at all cost

Drama on the Maas

A ray of hope

Raids and betrayal

Russian slave labourers executed in cold blood

The African-American gravediggers

Unparalleled destruction

A day never to be forgotten

An important visitor

A cross in the Peel

Help for escaped prisoners of war

Venray Commonwealth War Cemetery
other

Flour mill ‘Nooit Gedacht’

Panheel Lock Plaque

Memorial tomb of Rector Jan Hendrix

Jewish Monument

Monument for the children of Spik and Maalbroek '45

Monument to Belgian soldiers

Monument for the Fallen

Former synagogue

Monument to the fallen Scots

The Good Samaritan

Ellen Hoffmann Square

Highlander Bridge

Huys Heyen Castle

Maria Roepaan Convent

Monument to the Franken brothers

Arms monument

War and Peace Monument

Buried in a garden

Roermond Liberation Plaque

The Battle of Overloon

Monument for executed residents of Roermond

German counterattack

Operation Mallard at Schoor Bridge

Liberation festivities

Blitterswijck Castle Ruins

Norfolk Monument

Monument at the former Church of Peace

Hollow way: Riley's Gully

Memorial of the Molenhoek Temporary American Cemetery

Rector Jan Hendrix' Memorial Grave

Eric Harden Plaque

The Guardians Memorial

Fliegerhorst

Monument at the 'Three Pines'

Old Rectory Airmen's Memorial

'Our Lady of Banneux' Memorial

Memorial Stone Destruction St. Josephkerk (Saint Joseph Church)

Roman Catholic Cemetery Commonwealth War Grave

Lomm Evacuation Memorial

Belfeld War Memorial

Venlo Liberation Memorial

War graves of the Commonwealth of Nations

Beek Airport

Thull Explosion Monument

Schinveld commemorative monument

Monument to the Fallen

Brunssum British War Cemetery

Sewing School Monument

Brunssum dressing cubicles

Lilbosch war bunker

PAK cannon

Eys radar post

Casemate 1

Casemate 6

Schunck Glass Palace Rest Centre

Red Cross Club

Westwall near Kerkrade

Old Hickory Square

Evacuation Monument

Crossing the Worm at Rimburg

Machine-gun casemate

People in hiding at the bakery

Bunde Boys' School

Westwall Bocholtz-Vaals-Aachen

Dutch lion commemorates

Viewpoint on the mountain

Terhagen

Sanderbout Fortress

Late liberation of Vaals

Murdered after the liberation

Valkenburg Open Air Theatre

Heidegroeve

Marl town in the line of fire

Gemeentegrot as a safe haven

A tragic accident

Freedom Monument

Tomb of Gerard van den Bergh and grave of the children Cloosen

Terp Church in Urmond

British War Cemetery

Eight British War Graves

Monument at the ferry

Monument to Antonio Barbaro

Ruins of the Villa of Baron Van Verschuer

Schneeberg tank wall

Monument at Schildersplein

Risking his life

British War Cemetery Mook
other

Daniel Pearson Jr. Memorial Stone

Vossenberg Fortress

National East Indies Monument 1945-1962

Welcome in Holland

Vaalsbroek Castle

Muggehof: the first liberated house in the Netherlands

Old Hickory

Cold, wet, dread and distress

Jachtslot de Mookerheide: German meeting place

Through rain and mud to victory

A ruthless thorn in the flesh

The Watchman over the Peel

Never genuinely liberated

Monument for the American liberators

Museum Remember September 1944

War in the Peel Foundation

The Forest Partisans of Baarlo

Transit Camp

Mass grave for bombing victims

Women of Roermond Memorial Fountain

Operation Mallard in Leveroy

Stevensweert War Memorial

Lancaster Monument

Summit in a Maastricht school building

Liberated just too late

Little bridge in Weert

Ophoven-Sittard War Cemetery

Memorial woods on the Kollenberg

'Porcupine' three-man bunker

Where three countries meet

Kleng Wach

Jewish monument

The crash of Lancaster ED737 in Oberkrüchten

Belgian resistance fighter executed

Pierre Coenen Monument

Historical collection of the Vredepeel ground-based air defence system

Limburg Walking Knots
Length: 12.36 km
Route from Routebureau Limburg

Limburg Walking Knots
Length: 19.08 km
Route from Routebureau Limburg

Limburg Walking Knots
Length: 1.27 km
Route from Routebureau Limburg

Maas-Niederrhein Pad 10

Pieterpad 2
Route from Wandelnet

Pelgrimspad
Route from Grote Routepaden

Pelgrimspad
Route from Wandelnet

Liberation Route Venlo
Route from Routebureau Noord en Midden Limburg

Airbornepad
Route from OLAT

Path to freedom
Route from None

Pieterpad 2

Liberation Route Gennep
Route from Routebureau Noord en Midden Limburg

Brabantse Walpad

Jacobspad