A trail of bronze through Asten

Directions

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Museum Klok & Peel

Museum Klok & Peel
Ostaderstraat 23
5721 WC Asten

Museum Klok & Peel

At certain points in the pavements or road surface of Asten are 27 bronze plaques with sayings about bells and time. Together, they form a path through Asten. These tiles or plaques bear the image of Jan die Smet as a reminder of this historical figure. Recommended starting point: Museum Klok & Peel Asten, Ostaderstraat 23, 5721WC, Asten. The museum café and tourist information point are freely accessible.

Signposting;

Tiles with small bronze bells, called nails, indicate the direction in which to walk. The crowns on top of the bells show you the direction. The path takes you from the museum via a beautiful, green route, the Bell Casting Path, to the centre of Asten. Via a loop past some historic buildings and through old streets, you walk past the statue of Jan die Smet on Koningsplein towards the church. After St Mary's Presentation Church and two cloisters, the route leads you back to the museum. The path is wheelchair accessible and about 4 kilometres long.

The proverbs:

1. After a long and resounding life, we are elevated to art
2. Good work hee time of doing
3. Who hears but a bell, hears but a sound 
4. With diligence and patience time was gilded here
5. He who wears out his youth in wood, surely leads a good life
6. It is not by running fast but by being on time
7. Good advice is on but tailor-made, rings true and sounds like a bell
8. Time is money and calculable, time is precious but not insurable
9. It is time, high time for the last round
10. Mi money and time come the ge wide
11. One knows the bell by its reverberation
12. When the bells of Asten strike, the face stays that way
13. When printing, it is often working against the clock 
14. With respect for the past, we build the present for a new future 
15. Everywhere are clocks, but nowhere is time
16. Our transport for a long time, a race against the clock; started a century ago with the man on the beat
17. The clock is a great invention to remind us of the dinner hour
18. ASTEN... sounds like a BELL! 
19. Food without drink is like a bell without a sound
20. Time is a strange thing nobody has it, but we make it for our customers
21. Never ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for you  
22. Here people know where the clapper hangs and have been up to date for years truly men of the bell
23. Bells from this village and voices from this monastery have been heard all over the world
24. Bells, sound of infinity: call to service, worldwide   
25. What is spoken fades in time, what is written remains
26. Boone should not be set deeper than when the bells ring 
27. He who shoots with bells does not win the war

Maybe an idea to take a breather from the tour in the museum café?

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Museum Klok & Peel

Museum Klok & Peel
Ostaderstraat 23
5721 WC Asten

Museum Klok & Peel