This beautiful residential farmhouse is located in the forestry Ruinen, between the Drenthe villages of Echten and Ruinen. The house is equipped with every luxury and comfort and is situated in an English landscape garden of over 2 hectares. Our guests have plenty of privacy and can use a private outdoor pool, which is heated (May to October) You can, alone with your group, be culinary pampered in our own restaurant. We cook with fresh Drenthe regional products. Of course, you can also opt for self-catering. All facilities are available. In the evening you and your group can enjoy a pleasant evening in your own brown pub with a copper bar. We can provide kegs of beer, wine and soft drinks for you. The use of the pub is included in the price. On an island in the middle of the pond in the garden there is a gazebo where it is lovely to linger. If you are looking for a special location, in the middle of nature, where you can find peace and quiet with family, friends or your t

Together with the forests, the ponds and sand form a wonderfully varied biking and walking area. The conifers are increasingly making way for deciduous trees, so the forests attract more birds and insects. Until more than seventy years ago, the area around Ruinen was "wild and empty. Undeveloped and often inaccessible land with peat, sand and vast heathlands. The mines in Limburg required a lot of wood to shore up the mine galleries. In large parts of Drenthe, coniferous forests were therefore planted in the crisis years of the 1930s: the fast-growing, straight trunks of the conifers were well suited to the task. This is also how the forestry estate Ruinen was created: 1,200 hectares with mainly Japanese larch, spruce and pine. A few pieces were not planted. For example at the Gijsselter Plassen and the Echtenerzand you can still taste the atmosphere of the wild and empty Drenthe of almost a century ago. See also: www.staatsbosbeheer.nl/natuurgebieden/ruinen/routes