Bog, heath, and marshland in the Achterhoek peatlands near Winterswijk.
Korenburgerveen
Korenburgerveen is a peatland nature reserve in the eastern Netherlands, lying northwest of the town of Winterswijk in the province of Gelderland. Together with the neighbouring Meddosche Veen, Vragenderveen, and Corlese Veen, it forms one of the most important surviving bog complexes of the Achterhoek region, straddling the Dutch-German border landscape.
The reserve is a low-lying bog basin where raised peat, moisture-rich grassland, marsh woodland, and heathland intersect. Its plant richness includes cotton grass, peat moss, bog cotton, sundews, orchids, parnassia, and lavender heather, alongside rare ferns and shrubs such as royal fern, wild gale, and bog bilberry growing along old peat dams. Designated as a Natura 2000 area in February 2015, Korenburgerveen is now part of Europe's wider framework for protecting threatened habitats and species.
The site is owned and managed largely by the Dutch nature conservation society Natuurmonumenten, in cooperation with the Stichting Marke Vragender Veen. It also belongs to the broader Nationaal Landschap Winterswijk, a national landscape declared in 2005 that covers nearly 22,000 hectares of cultural and natural heritage around the town.
