Program Spring / Summer 2023
Activities and Guided Tours
One hundred years of the Garden-City Bouvier-Washer
In 2023, the Bouvier-Washer garden city will celebrate its centenary. An information panel is ready and will be placed at the entrance of the district so that the memory of the past of the district is preserved. The panel will be solemnly inaugurated by the mayor in the presence of the aldermen on Sunday 26 March at 11:30 am. Everyone is welcome ! Afterwards we raise a glass. Everyone brings something to drink or eat together. The residents of the neighborhood receive an invitation in their mailbox.
Guided visit to the district: registration by email with your guide
Bilingual visit (N-FR) on Sunday 14 May at 3 pm. Guide: Colette Storms, colette.storms@skynet.be
Visit in French on Sunday 21 May at 3 pm. Guide: Martine Kuhn, martine.kuhn@hotmail.fr
We remind you that the lecture on the history of this garden city (2021) was recorded and can be consulted on the You Tube channel of Discover Kraainem. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqotKcvPRdc.
The owners of the Monastry of the Visitation (Hebronlaan, 5) authorize a guided visit on June 10, 2023. Discover Kraainem will organize bilingual (N-FR) visits for 25 people, at 10 am and 2 pm. Registration by mail discoverkraainem@gmail.com (please indicate whether you prefer morning or afternoon).Guides: Lorenz Ködderitzsch and Colette Storms
Bilingual lecture: Dom Paul Bellot and the Visitation Monastery in Kraainem Hall Agora (Sunday 10 September 2022, 3 pm). This lecture was given by Liz Dewitte and is supported by a PowerPoint presentation (see the presentation here). The conference was recorded and can be viewed on YouTube.
To allow inhabitants of Kraainem or other interested people to get to know our town better, what better than a walk in the northern part of Kraainem, which is its true birthplace? Starting from the Saint-Pancras church, we will first cross the "Haut/ Hoog-Kraainem" with the Jourdain estate, then descend to the valley of the Kleine Maelbeek and Woluwe ("Bas/Laag-Kraainem"). It has always been the nucleus of the village near the water and the ancient Roman road and that has been the most populated and lively area. The presence of a ford, a passageway for merchants and travelers, had a lot to do with it.
Using historical maps, old photos and postcards, we will bring the old rural village to life and study the stages of its urbanization.
2 hours walk in historic Kraainem
Please register at least 2 days before the tour by sending an email or SMS to your guide.
Dutch - Luc Maes (luc.maes3@telenet.be; 0468 / 14 15 32)
New dates to be announced in autumn 2023
Last tour was on Sunday 27 June 2022 at 10:00
English - Lorenz Kodderitzsch (lorenzinkraainem@gmail.com)
New dates to be announced in autumn 2023
Last tour was on Sunday 22 August 2022 at 15:00
French - Colette Storms (colette.storms@skynet.be; 0477 / 64 91 18)
New dates to be announced in autumn 2023
Last tour was on Sunday 4 July 2022 at 15:00
Meeting point: Saint-Pancras church