Between Amersfoort and Apeldoorn lies the little town of Barneveld, with an important college of agriculture. The town's fame as a center of poultry farming and egg production rests on the brown Barneveld hen, one of the best-known Dutch breeds.
In front of Barneveld's Gothic hall-church (15th C.; Reformed) is a monument to Jan van Schaffelaer, who about the year 1482 threw himself down from the church tower in order to save the village from hardship.
The Kasteel Jan van Schaffelaer (1854) stands in a park (open to the public) east of the village of Barneveld. In July and August this is the scene of the Oud Veluwe Markten (Old Veluwe Market Days), when old handicraft firms display their products.
An unusual tourist attraction in Barneveld is the Poultry Museum, which is unique of its kind in Europe. Here visitors can see "historic" incubators, incubator lamps and egg-sorting machines and get a general impression of Dutch poultry farming from the cocks and hens of many breeds which range freely around.
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