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It is not just the very first columbarium in Flanders that makes Willebroek a liberal maverick. For a hundred years now, free thinkers there have been creating a breeding ground for those who wanted to determine their own path in life and thus put an end to the church’s meddling. On that fertile ground, new generations of free thinkers grew and flourished, who

Wontergem grew up along a single main thoroughfare: Dentergemstraat. Around this thoroughfare, a close-knit village community developed in which the church, school, farm life, commerce, industry, and community life were closely intertwined. From the stately church and the historic rectory to memories of millers, cycling champions, village homes, and farms, the Vondelmeersen, railroads, and the dairy industry: every