In the past, this area was home to a large low-moor peat bog, known as Ermerveen. This is probably the place where Van Gogh made several works, including his work ‘Two Women on the Peat Moor’.
The so-called Lange Slagen, long fields that were dredged in Van Gogh’s time and were later used to grow buckwheat, were also part of the Ermerveen. This is possibly where Van Gogh drew his ‘Landscape with stacks of peat’. The area has now been drained.
