This route takes you from beautiful Twente through the border area between the German states of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. After a 10-minute drive you will arrive at a special location, the Mandercirkels, due to the recent tree felling, these can already be seen from the road on the left.

These circles are also called Circles by Jannink or Beha van Jannink, together they form the largest landscape art project in the Netherlands. The artwork consists of two circular areas. The circular fields were laid out in the 1930s on the heathland of the former Marke (a medieval collective of larger farmers who jointly manage and use their communal land) in Mander on behalf of Gerhard Jannink, textile manufacturer and large landowner from Enschede. He had seen in North America that round fields had advantages over rectangular ones. The fields could be worked from the center in a spiral corridor so that the machines did not have to turn. Rye, oats and potatoes were grown alternately. After 1975 maize became the most important crop. When that no longer paid off, the land of Jannink was sold in 1991 to Landschap Overijssel. The circles have a diameter of 378 and 343 meters respectively. The area is accessed by a two-kilometer-long hiking trail around and over the circles. They serve as a beacon for pilots, they are probably the inventors of the nickname Beha by Jannink. In the late 1990s, artist Paul de Kort redesigned the area. The source of inspiration were prehistoric landscape tracks. A circle was dug in a ditch with a spiral labyrinth in the center which symbolizes a plow furrow. The other was provided with a rampart with an elevation in the middle of the round moorland, like a burial mound with fifty juniper bushes on top.

You continue your route and cross the Dutch-German border to turn right in Getelo towards Halle, a beautiful sloping road with a number of hills on both sides. The 89 meter high Poascheberg on the left side of the road is the highest point. On the nearby 87-meter-high Lönsberg, there is a 35-meter-high metal lookout tower which is accessible free of charge. With good visibility you can even see Nordhorn and Lingen, as well as the castle in Bad Bentheim. There is also a restaurant at the watchtower.

You continue on the Hesingerstrasse and arrive in the town of Lage, here you can visit the watermill of Lage.
The water mill of Lage dates from the 17th century. Characteristic are the two water wheels, from which a grain and oil mill track are driven. In the early years of the 20th century, electricity was also generated to power the village. The oil mill was closed after the First World War. The grain mill was in operation until 1957, although from 1931 it was no longer powered by water power, but by a diesel engine. After the death of the last miller, the mill was empty. When the building threatened to collapse, the most necessary security work began in 1962.10 years later, the County of Bentheim finally ordered an extensive external restoration of the mill. The mill is now in use for a few days a year. After the restoration, a tea room was set up in the former miller's apartment.

You continue the route for a short distance through the Graftschaft Bentheim and then drive into the lower Emsland. This part of the route is characterized by the many rivers and canals. You will pass ao: De Dinkel; The Vecht, the Süd-Nord Canal, and the Ems. Shortly after passing the Ems you arrive at the Venhaus lock, which is a lock complex on the Dortmund-Ems Canal. The Venhaus lock is part of the so-called Rheine lock staircase. On this approximately 29-kilometer-long stretch of canal between the Bevergern lock and the Gleesens lock, a height difference of almost 29 meters is bridged. The average fall height is 3.5 meters.

After about 1 hour of steering you arrive in Ankum, where you can stretch your legs at Het See und Sporthotel and possibly consume something. When you leave the parking lot, turn right onto the L70. You are now driving through a more wooded area via Uefeln in the direction of Bramsche, you avoid this large town by taking the first right at the roundabout to the K165. This road will bring you to the Mittelland canal.

At 325.7 kilometers, this canal is the longest artificial watercourse in Germany. The canal starts as a branch of the Dortmund-Ems Canal at Hörstel and then takes you past Bramsche, Osnabrück, Hanover, Wolfsburg and Magdeburg to the Elbe. Several of these larger cities are connected to the Mittelland Canal via side arms that come to a dead end in a harbor basin.

Then you drive 20 kilometers along the canal. In the distance you can already see the former mining dump at Dickenberg. On top of this former mine dump you have a beautiful view on a clear day. Mining ended here in 1979.

The route continues south along Rheine, you will pass the location where the Mittelland canal changes into the Dortmund Ems canal, the canal in which the recently passed lock complex is also located. The Dortmund-Ems Canal is a 265 kilometer long canal between the port of Dortmund and Emden. This canal also connects the Ruhr area and the east of Germany via the Mittelland canal. The canal is located in the far west of Germany and runs almost entirely along the Dutch border. It consists of a northern and a southern part. Construction of the canal started in 1892. During the peak years, more than 4000 employees were active. On August 11, 1899, the Dortmund-Ems Canal was officially opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II.

You will now leave North Rhine-Westphalia and return to the state of Lower Saxony and drive under the A31 motorway to Bad Bentheim. Here, a visit of Bentheim Castle and its Castle Garden is very worthwhile.

Bentheim Castle is a medieval castle built from sandstone blocks. This sandstone bears the name of the place: Bentheim sandstone. The castle is still inhabited, but the fortifications and some historic reception rooms can be visited. The living area is inhabited by the noble family of Bentheim und Steinfurt.
When you enter the castle you pass two gates. The lower gate dates from the thirteenth century. The upper gate was designed in the seventeenth century by the Dutch master builder Philips Vingboons. The Kronenburg is a Gothic residential building, which was renovated according to historical example in the late nineteenth century. The Powder Tower with its medieval dungeon got its current shape around 1525. Several architectural styles can be found in the castle, the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance styles. From the 30 meter high medieval powder tower you have a beautiful view over Westphalia and Twente in good weather.

After a possible visit you drive via the B403 through the Bentheimer Wald to the Isterberg, where you have a beautiful view from the viewing platform at 80 meters towards the Dutch border. In the summer months, motorcyclists gather in the parking lot under the watchtower on Sundays from 10 a.m. to meet each other.

After the Isterberg you drive a bit through the floodplains of the Vecht to then cross the German-Dutch border. You will return to Dutch soil via a small country road. Then south of Denekamp, partly via the ring road, goes to Landgoed Singraven.

In addition to the manor, the estate also includes the water mill 1448 on the Dinkel, a coach house in 1868 and a number of lease farms. The House itself dates from 1415. The name Singraven means "large canal". Residents / owners of the first house included the Oldenzaalse Begijnen and the counts of Bentheim. The dilapidated house was demolished in 1651-1653 and replaced by a new house to which a stair tower was added in 1661. Through inheritance, the house came into the possession of, among others, the De Thouars family and through sale in 1829 to the Roessingh Udink family. Several generations of this family have refurbished and renovated the estate. In addition, the facade was extended 4 meters to the front, the building houses at the front were demolished to obtain an unobstructed view and in 1868 a large driveway from Ootmarsumsestraat to the house was constructed. The last private resident / owner, Willem Frederik Jan Laan 1891-1966, gave the estate to the Edwina van Heek Foundation in 1966, even after extensive renovations and restorations.

The Singraven water mill consists of three water wheels with several mills: an oil mill, a flour mill and the sawmill.

You continue the route over the Schiphorstdijk, first a few hundred meters of cobblestones and then asphalt again. A small road through the estate. At the end of the road in front of the water we turn right onto the Kampstieweg along the Almelo Nordhorn canal to finally arrive at the Kuiperberg.

The Kuiperberg is 71 meters high. The Kuiperberg is part of the lateral moraine that extends from Ootmarsum to Uelsen in Germany. Other hills of this lateral moraine are the Braamberg 76 meters and further north the Overijsselse Galgenberg 68 meters. The highest point is the Poascheberg 89 meters just across the border, which we already passed at the beginning of the route. On the Kuiperberg is the Jewish cemetery of Ootmarsum, which dates from approximately 1786. On top of the Kuiperberg is an orientation table of the ANWB. This is a reminder of the federal parties of the Royal Dutch Touring Association ANWB in Twente on 22 and 23 July 1922.

Via a petrol station on the Ootmarsumseweg we drive via the Reutemmerweg to the end point Recreation Park `n Kaps.