Batenburg-Van de Merwe

11/04/2022 - Monday the 11th of April these auctions will start: Alpdag Brothers (TR), Team Hooymans BE & UK, Hugo Batenburg (NL), Hardy Krüger (DE) & April auction.

21/02/2022 - Monday the 21st of February this new auction will start: Jewels of the sky Hyper Exclusive.

14/02/2022 - Monday the 14th of February these new auctions will start: Alpdag Brothers, Frans Bungeneers, Gino Clicque, Pallatt KBDB Elite, Davy Tournelle, Batenburg-Van De Merwe, Bart Geerinckx & Wendela Wiersema

06/12/2021 - Monday the 6th of December these new auctions will start: Hugo Batenburg (NL), Cor De Heijde (NL), Jan Hooymans (NL), Alpdag Brothers (TR), G&S Verkerk (NL), Gino Clicque (BE), Jelle Roziers (BE), Gebroeders Leideman (NL), Mike Ganus (US) & Sorin Florea (RO).

23/11/2021 - The auction of 49 youngsters from Hugo Batenburg's best breeders will start on Tuesday 23 November 2021.

19/10/2021 - Tuesday the 19th of October the auction of Hugo Batenburg will start.

09/11/2020 - These auctions ended on Sunday November 8 and Monday November 9: Youri Deblanc, Wojciech Handerek, Vermeerbergen-Wilms, Comb. Elzinga, Jos Thoné, Etienne Meirlaen, Adrien Mirabelle, Alfons Klaas, Jutla Brothers & Mark Gilbert.

14/05/2020 - The following auctions came to a close on Sunday 10th of May: T&J Elzinga, Joël Verschoot, Wout Spierings, Franz-Josef Irmer, Verweij-De Haan, Mike Ganus & Batenburg-van de Merwe.

28/04/2020 - Tuesday the 28th of April, this new auction will start: Batenburg-Van de Merwe (NL).

21/11/2019 - To most Taiwense fanciers, the ace pigeon title in the Taiwan Summer North Sea Race is already the best result in a race across sea in the last 20 years. And the sire of this winner was bred by Hugo Batenburg (Klaaswaal, NL).

19/11/2019 - On Tuesday 19 November a new auction of Batenburg - Van De Merwe will start. This auction ends on Sunday 1th of December.

18/06/2019 - PIPA developed into one of the most important auction houses from all over the world. In this video you get to know the PIPA company better. You will also hear some great pigeon champions talk about their collaboration with PIPA.

16/04/2019 - A total of 134 pigeons were sold across seven auctions this Sunday, raising 317,175 euro in total. This makes for an average of 2,367 euro/bird.

13/04/2019 - Get to know the invaluable collection of breeding birds of Hugo and Anita Batenburg-Van de Merwe (Klaaswaal, NL). They put together a fantastic collection of pigeons over the years, that have excelled in numerous international long distance classics.

09/04/2019 - At the height of his fame, Hugo Batenburg is selling a talented lot of 34 youngsters from 2018 on PIPA. The auction launches on Tuesday 2nd of April at 5pm.

01/02/2019 - La Colombe Joyeuse hands out their prestigious Europe Cup every season, and the 2018 edition was dominated by Dutch and Franch fanciers: places one and two go to Dutchmen Batenburg Van de Merwe and Jos Martens, with Frenchman Joél Thorel finishing in third place.

05/12/2018 - 8 different auctions closed last Sunday, raising 461,625 euro in total for 161 pigeons, with an average of 2,867 euro/pigeon.

28/11/2018 - The highly successful pigeon breed of Hugo and Anita Batenburg has surprised us once again! They started the 2018 season with 4 national top 20 prizes in Pau, and they ended the season with an even better result: the fancier from South-Holland claims the title of 1st National Ace Pigeon ZLU in the national WHZB competition with Blue Ace 2018!

16/07/2018 - The highly praised pigeon family of Batenburg-Van de Merwe has lived up to its reputation in the first major race of 2018. Hugo had no less than four pigeons in the national top 19 in a very demanding race from Pau. Meanwhile fellow fancier Ad Fortuin had three direct Batenburg pigeons finish in the top 50, which shows that the modern day marathon pigeon in Klaaswaal is growing to become a reality!

01/07/2018 - An outstanding performance under the heaviest of circumstances; that is exactly what Ad Fortuin did at the Agen Yearling race. He won 1st National with over 50(!) minutes lead and 4 pigeons in the top 40 National - with 4 direct Batenburg-Van de Merwe pigeons; all 4 descending of New Laureaat. The icon whose offspring sort of dominates this race; a performance that shall be spoken of for many years …

08/12/2017 - Trying to ingrain the exceptional qualities of world class pigeons into their existing breed, that has been the objective for Hugo Batenburg and Etienne Meirlaen’s joint breedings. And the results in both their lofts clearly show that they have achieved their goal.

19/07/2017 - They had to wait for six nights, but as soon as Hugo Batenburg's one year old birds for Agen were released from their baskets there was nothing that could hold them back. Hugo, the unofficial king of the extreme long distance, claims a 1st and 5th National against almost 6,000 pigeons, as well as 9 top 100 placings.

28/10/2016 - Together with the PIPA Elite Center, Hugo Batenburg managed to obtain New Laureaat, the international winner of Barcelona 2013. Hugo's yearlings have shown in the international races from Agen and Narbonne that the New Laureaat bloodline combines very well with his own long distance breed.

16/07/2016 - Batenburg-Van De Merwe closed the first part of the 2016 ZLU season with two national top 50 prizes from Barcelona. Hugo has managed to finish in the national top 25 in the last five extreme long distance races ZLU (3 in 2016 and 2 in 2015). This is quite a feat!

25/01/2016 - The name of Batenburg-Van de Merwe and success in extreme long distance racing have been connected ever since Hugo Batenburg’s first interest in pigeon racing in the seventies. Hugo now co-owns (together with PEC) probably the most impressive marathon colony in the world.

04/01/2016 - They had three teletext prizes from Cahors and six pigeons in the national top 100 ZLU Narbonne, and Hugo & Anita Batenburg-Van de Merwe closed the season adding another 7 national top 100 prizes ZLU Perpignan (5,589 p.) to their palmares.

20/09/2015 - The southern French city of Narbonne opened its baskets on 25 July 2015 at 8 o’clock in the morning, with a one day delay. A total of 19,912 pigeons took off for the international classic. By the end of the day, the first pigeons were clocked in Germany and the east of France, due to the north-westerly wind. However, a few more pigeons arrived home later in the evening, and over much longer distances. There was only pigeon that managed to get home before the end of the day after covering more than 950km, and it was a pigeon of Hugo and Anita Batenburg-Van De Merwe. They clocked their Carlo BE14-4216131 at 23h21’09”. This was an impressive performance and it would prove quite a successful race from Narbonne for them this season.

10/07/2015 - The marathon season is just underway, and there is Hugo Batenburg achieving a great result from Cahors against 5,267 pigeons. His entire team of one year olds was put to the test for the first time, and his impressive national results show that the most celebrated pigeon loft in The Netherlands has a promising new team.

12/08/2014 - The team of Batenburg-Van De Merwe closed the ZLU season making an important step towards the title of 1st Nat. Ace Pigeon Perpignan in four years’ time: their Little Diamond took the first prize against 2,112 pigeons in the Entente of North and South Holland, while also winning a second prize against 1,705 hens in the national results.

11/03/2014 - The pigeon loft of Batenburg-Van de Merwe needs no introduction of course. Hugo and Anito have managed to achieve phenomenal results in the most demanding races season after season. They have been winning an impressive number of top prizes while breeding a long list of top prize winners. Their pigeon collection is the result of a carefully planned and organised breeding plan.

01/01/2014 - Just as in the past three seasons we end the year with an overview of our website’s most read articles (including translations). Today we give you numbers ten to six; the top five will be published tomorrow.

26/10/2013 - Hugo Batenburg has one big dream: winning a first national from Barcelona. He leaves nothing to chance in realising this dream and his wife Anita gives her full support.

10/07/2013 - El primer Internacional Barcelona 2013 “Nuevo Laureat” de Luc Wiels fue transferido al Palomar de Hugo Batenburg y el Centro de cria de Elite de PIPA despues de la carrera mas importante de la temporada. Esto es bastante excepcional; es la primera vez desde 1996 que el ganador del Internacional Barcelona no es transferido a Asia.

12/03/2013 - This pigeon breed owes much of its worldwide success to the outstanding breeding qualities of their stock sire Witbuik! Batenburg-van de Merwe has become one of the leading lofts in the marathon discipline worldwide thanks to inbreeding and well considered crossings with this Witbuik bloodline.

02/01/2013 - The fanciers Batenburg - van de Merwe are often associated with their most famous pigeon De Witbuik and its impressive achievements in the most demanding races.

14/08/2012 - Last week PIPA visited Batenburg - van de Merwe, one of the best long distance racers in the world.

22/07/2012 - Hugo Batenburg, puede considerarse sin duda el mejor criador de palomas actuales de origen Jan Aarden en Holanda, acababa de tener un maravilloso resultado en el nacional de Burdeos y se quedó asombrado cuando leyó el informe sobre la familia Schults en PIPA, la familia que había ganado el Nacional de Barcelona para los Países Bajos en 2012. La paloma ganadora de Barcelona, una victoria en la cual el mejor palomar de Gran Fondo y Medio Fondo de los Países Bajos siempre habia estado soñando, le recordaba a su legendario palomo Base, el legendario” Witbuik.” Hugo Batenburg penso que la paloma ganadora se adaptaria perfectamente a convertirse en su nuevo reproductor de primera clase!

07/07/2012 - Last season this partnership were the winners from races like the Western European marathon and the national marathon. This time it was a triumphant win for them in the ZLU race from Bordeaux. It was quite a dominating win, unique in the world of marathon racing. It shows that Batenburg-Van de Merwe are among the greatest champions in middle distance racing in The Netherlands.

05/03/2012 - With around 150 National top-100 notations the Batenburg- van de Merwe pedigree has become a phenomenon in the current overnight pastime. Many know the pedigree, and successfully introduce this into their stock in order to also achieve such a wonderful honours list.

01/12/2011 - Le résultat de l'Europa-Marathon 2011 est connu. Le vainqueur est pour la deuxème fois Batenburg-van de Merwe de Klaaswaal (Pays-Bas). Ils ont déjà gagné le classement en 2010. La remise des prix a lieu le 4 février à Bad Breisig.

10/11/2011 - Hugo Batenburg and Anita van de Merwe from Klaaswaal (Holland) win the PIPA IATP five-year ranking 2007-2011 this year. They also ended third in the PIPA IATP ranking of 2011. Silver in the five-year ranking is won by Andre Colbrandt (Bottelare, Belgium), who was first last year. Lucie van der Wegen from Steenbergen (Holland) completes the stage.

09/11/2011 - After winning the unique double 1st National Marathon and 1st West-European Super Marathon in 2010, it seemed almost impossible to keep up in 2011. Ambition and unknown quality drove Batenburg-VD Merwe to a memorable season.

03/08/2011 - It seemed almost unavoidable; the excellent performance curve produced by Hugo Batenburg and Anita van de Merwe in 2011, could only end in a banging climax. And what can you think of higher than the fastest pigeons of the National Cahors competition against 22.264 pigeons?

15/07/2011 - The Dutch emperors of the ZLU seized ‘the classic’ Barcelona to give added lustre to the2011 season. High expectations which came true after the original double first National Marathon and the first Western European Super Marathon 2010.

05/03/2011 - The Netherlands is well-known for: clogs, windmills, tulips and…. Batenburg van de Merwe. The Batenburg van de Merwe pedigree is known far beyond the borders of the Netherlands

04/08/2010 - Batenburg-Van de Merwe did it, once again a super year in 2010, 16 times in natioanl top 100 ~

31/08/2009 - The legendary Witbuik long distances strain has once again offered some very strong 2009 performances !!! Klaaswaal… a small village located in the south of Holland. Here lives a very huge name of the long distance sport: the Batenburg family.

01/06/2005 -