Category: <span>Disappeared</span>

The Solarium

This article is from De Bourg 4/2010 From Latin: place where one can take a sunbath, also solarium. Before 1940, in the mid-harvest period, the owners and managers organized all kinds of water sports such as competitive swimming, clean-diving of the two seesaws. Water polo matches were also regularly held…

First Post

We often think that the old postal office at the Church ‘OLV-Tenhemelopneming’ was the first post office in Leopoldsburg. However, this is not the case. Already before the construction of brick roads, coaches (‘malle-post’ 1) drove our region to Diest and Hasselt on a daily basis. At the time, the…

My Royal House

  My Royal House was a museum that existed from 2001-2010 and was located at Antwerpsesteenweg 1. It concerned a private collection of objects related to the Belgian royal family and which was developed by Astrid Bammens. She set up an exhibition on the subject in Retie in 1995. Later…