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Useful links:
- The official website of the municipality of Kraainem has a section on the history of the commune and on its main historical buildings: https://www.kraainem.be/fr/theme/3036/patrimoine-culturel
- Erfgoed Vlaanderen publishes information on monuments and historical sites of municipalities in Flanders. Below link opens the site to information on Kraainem with a general overview from which you can look for particular buildings or neighbourhoods: https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/themas/13284
- General information on Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraainem
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In Memoriam: Georges Bulteel (1929 - 2021). Click here for the obituary.
By clicking on below links you can find pdf scans of the following texts on the history of Kraainem that have not be published in a formal sense and are therefore difficult to find. Some of the manuscripts can be found in the Municipal Library of Kraainem (Dutch Section) but are not always available:
- Georges Bulteel: Leven en Sterven Te Kraainem Rond De Eeuwwisseling (1986)
- Georges Bulteel: Van Het Ancien Regime Naar Een Nieuwe Tijd – Kraainem 1700 – 1815 (1992)
- Georges Bulteel: De parochiekerk van St Pancratius
- Jean-Marie Collin: Kraainem - Mille Ans d’Histoire
- Anne Van der Rest: Généalogie- Les seigneurs de Kraainem