Audiotur On German tracks in Antwerp: the "German Corner"
2 sights
- Ljudturssummering
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Ljudturssummering
In this walk, we look for traces of the vibrant German community in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Antwerp. We stroll past beautiful residential houses that give a sense of the glory days of German-Antwerp entrepreneurs, decipher peeled-off inscriptions on facades and even peek into police archives. The glory days of the "German Corner" and its inhabitants are over, but its legacy remains clearly visible in the city. We start in the Park Harmonie...
Research, text, image selection: Laura Nys und Ine Van linthout (points of interest 1, 4 to 11), Claudia Gaspard und Ine Van linthout (2 and 3)
Translations: Isabel Hessel (into German), Vivien Glass (into English)
Coordination and final editing: Ine Van linthout
Copyright Tour: dasKULTURforum Antwerpen
Partners: This tour was realised with the support of the City of Antwerp and the Goethe Institute Brussels.
- 1 Welcome to the 'German corner'
- 2 German Adresses on the South Side of the Park: number 17
- 3 German Adresses on the South Side of the Park: Number 19
- 4 Fester Castle
- 5 Hôtel Max Von Der Becke
- 6 Hôtel Kreglinger
- 7 Felix and Albert Grisar: a heart for music
- 8 Hôtel Ingenohl & Villa Jenny
- 9 von Barystraat (1903-1918)
- 10 The German origins of the American Petroleum Company
- 11 The Adèle Grisar orphanage
- 12 'Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company' & the German colony
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Ljudturssummering
In this walk, we look for traces of the vibrant German community in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Antwerp. We stroll past beautiful residential houses that give a sense of the glory days of German-Antwerp entrepreneurs, decipher peeled-off inscriptions on facades and even peek into police archives. The glory days of the "German Corner" and its inhabitants are over, but its legacy remains clearly visible in the city. We start in the Park Harmonie...
Research, text, image selection: Laura Nys und Ine Van linthout (points of interest 1, 4 to 11), Claudia Gaspard und Ine Van linthout (2 and 3)
Translations: Isabel Hessel (into German), Vivien Glass (into English)
Coordination and final editing: Ine Van linthout
Copyright Tour: dasKULTURforum Antwerpen
Partners: This tour was realised with the support of the City of Antwerp and the Goethe Institute Brussels.
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