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Pond of Blaasveld
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In 1636, Michel Van Breedam discovered a statuette representing the Virgin Mary in a ditch and attached it to an oak tree. In the harsh winter of 1760 the pond close to the statue never froze – even though the other waters around were frozen solid. Even today, it is said this pool never freezes over. The pond became a place of pilgrimage and the waters are believed to be healing – especially for eye diseases. A little chapel, known as "the little chapel of the fourteen bunders", was built beside the pond. (A bunder is a unit of land.)
There has recently been discovered an Iron Age Village in the marsh and there is a suggestion that the statue found in 1636 may have been from that time.
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