2020. Corona. Travelling is a different game. Yet our Fernhweh acted up too often. So we arranged a train trip to Germany and Austria. Specifically to Leipzig in Saxony, several spots in Bavaria and returning home with ÖBB‘s Nightjet from Innsbruck in Tyrol to Brussels in Belgium.
Tag: History
VIDEO | Pedestrian bridge in Antwerp’s Stadspark restored
The Keiligbrug, the pedestrian bridge, in Antwerp‘s Stadspark or City Park has been restored and is again open for use. The iron bridge is 150 years old.
VIDEO | Antwerp researching old castle at Noorderterras
City archeologists are researching recent excavations of the old castle at the Noorderterras (Northern Terrace) in Antwerp. Just behind the Steen (Stone) castle.
PHOTOS & VIDEOS | Antwerp’s WWI memorial pontoon bridge
October 1914. Belgian troops flee or retreat – depending if you want a euphemism or not – for the advancing German troops by crossing the Scheldt river in Antwerp using a pontoon bridge. Fast forward to 2014. Some 100,000 Antwerpians cross a memorial pontoon bridge, taking selfies.
800 years of Antwerp city rights
On 21 February 1221 Henry I, Duke of Brabant granted the City of Antwerp city rights or town privileges. The charter was more a confirmation of an already existing situation, but is still worth a commemoration.
75 years of Rubens House
On 21 July 1946 then Mayor Camille Huysmans opened the Rubens House (Rubenshuis) as a museum in Antwerp. This, of course, is an excuse for events and celebrations.
EAST GERMANY | Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Leipzig’s GDR museum
2020. Corona. Travelling is a different game. Yet our Fernhweh acted up too often. So we arranged a train trip to Germany and Austria. Specifically to Leipzig in Saxony, several spots in Bavaria and returning home with ÖBB‘s Nightjet from Innsbruck in Tyrol to Brussels in Belgium.
‘100 X Congo’ exhibition at Museum Aan de Stroom (MAS) in Antwerp
Exactly one hundred years ago, in 1920, the Congolese collection of the City of Antwerp came into being, in all-out colonial times. ‘100 X Congo‘ features one hundred highlights.
Antwerp to get a pedestrian and cyclist bridge over the Scheldt
Antwerp and Flanders have given the green light to the pedestrian and cyclist bridge project which will connect the Right Bank and Left Bank of the Scheldt above the J.F. Kennedy Tunnel.
BOOK | ‘Antwerp. An Archaeological View on the Origin of the City’ by Tim Bellens
Very recently, the book ‘Antwerpen. Een archeologische kijk op het ontstaan van de stad‘ by Antwerp city archeologist Tim Bellens came out. The book has an English translation and an e-book version.
