The wooden palace was built from 14 until 22 July 1835. Captain Lery was both the architect and the builder. It was given a central place on the eastern side of the Royal Park. It consisted of only one floor. Along the four sides a porch, a sort of roundabout…
In 1923 a monastery and chapel were added to the military hospital. In the monastery, that now, among other things, shelters the museum of the ‘Eerste Jagers te Paard’, the nurses who were engaged in the hospital were living.The chapel received the name of Saint-Anna, because this saint was mostly…
The pavilion, build in 1869, is considered to be the most beautiful building of Camp Beverlo. The first floor is completely enclosed by a gallery, set off with selected oak-wooden trunks, protected against the rain by a protruding roof. Above the pavilion shines a belvedere covered with black slates. It…
The military hospital finds it origin in the first non-permanent ambulant Camp in 1835. It was completely erected in wood. In that same year Camp Beverlo got created and together with the arrival of the military, health problems occurred. Since 1839 the definite extension of the military hospital found place….
Since October 1 1977 a monument, that was erected in honour of the 4000 volunteers for Korea who received their training in Camp Beverlo, stands on the grass-field in front of the ‘Plaatscommando’. An ashlar pillar carries a copper plaque, on which we you can read that the corps was…
The Gaillon monument was erected after the First World War. It remembers the transfer of the infantry-school from Camp Beverlo to Gaillon in France. The monument has a copper plaque, on which following text is written in both vernacular languages :‘On 5-1-1915 a school was raised in Gaillon (France) for…
The statue of general Chazal on the ‘Zegeplaats’ (Yard of Victory) was unveiled in 1908, in the presence of 2000 veterans of 1870. The artist is Desenfans. Pierre Emmanuel Felix Chazal was born in Tarbes (France) on January 1 1808. His family imigrated to Brussels in 1814. In 1844 he…
An overview of all explained street names of Leopoldsburg, Heppen and Camp Beverlo. If there is a stamp under the street name, you can click on it to see some old postcards.
A number of streets were named after royalty, soldiers or places where the Belgian army fought. This list is certainly not yet complete. Some streets may also belong to Leopoldsburg, but because of the fact that they are located on a military domain and the signs are different from those…
The museum is installed in the former Military Hospital. Along a 200m long hall there are four big and multiple small wards. Models, photos, documents tell about the origin of Camp Beverlo and the village Leopoldsburg. One of the eye-catchers is the presentation about the Belgian Dynasty. The museum is…
