The WWI route is an interactive iPad walk along military and municipal memorial sites. The booklet is available at Leopoldsburg Tourism! Sorry, but this booklet is only available in Dutch! Click on the image to open the pamphlet. (in Dutch)
It was no coincidence that on February 17, the day of the death of King Albert-I at Marches-les-Dames (in 1937), his bust was inaugurated. The statue is situated on the southern grass lawn of the King Albert I Square in Leopoldsburg. It was made by artist Mariejo Drees from Leopoldsburg….
On May 28, 1944, the Allies bombed the Camp of Beverloo, which was occupied by the Germans. We will never know how many German soldiers died. There were 270 fatalities among the population. The OLV Visitation Institute in Leopoldsburg also had to deal with bombs. They later released a booklet…
The Liberation Route was mapped out in 2004 because our municipality was liberated 60 years earlier in that year. The route is signposted with white signs and blue print, with a bicycle logo and the words ‘Bevrijdingsroute 24.5 km’. The brochure (paper version) is available at the tourist office of…
Despite the expansion and improvement of the road network, the army was not yet able to supply sufficiently and especially fast enough. One looked forward to a transport possibility over the water. In almost three years, between 1854 and 1857, a connecting channel between Leopoldsburg and the ‘Kempische Vaart’ was…
The article underneath I received from Jef Leynen (translation by Patrick Marquenie) Father Asterius – Joseph August Sels born Weelde on July 20, 1914. deceased at Strooiendorp-Leopoldsburg on November 25, 1999. Lommel: 1952/1999 WE REMEMBER: Our confrere Father ASTEER GUST SELS, 1914 -1999 85 years, 66 years and 60 years…
I’ve received the newspaper article underneath from An Verlinden. I don’t know what the date of the article is, or out of which newspaper it originates. (Translation by Patrick Marquenie). Overseas sabotage mission fatal Victor Lemmens Leopoldsburg. The municipal street map shows the George Lemmens and Victor Lemmens street. Outside…
The service berths, originally named as the Service de Couchage en Literie, had its base complex along the Hechtelsesteenweg. The basic infrastructure consisted of an L-shaped building containing the central depot and workshops and two buildings on the street side of the Hechtelsesteenweg for the administration. The complex was built in the…
Successive owners: 1846: build by Pieter Bemindt-Annemans, constructor in Brussels. 1854: sold to Karel de Jonker, merchant in Brussels. 1866: sold to Matheus Mallet and children, miller in Leopoldsburg. 1873: sold to Pieter Sak-Mallet, town clerk in Eksel. 1874: sold to Franciscus Van Elsen-Oeyen, miller in Balen. 1876: sold to…
Overview World War II in Leopoldsburg It’s hard to just one gigantic war like that of World War II, going on to describe just Limburg territory. Following are a few significant events that took place during this period. On January 10, 1940 a German Messerschmidt makes an emergency landing at…
