Antwerp

Antwerp-Berchem and Wilrijk — from Koninklijkelaan to Meerlenlaan

In Berchem, around the Koninklijkelaan, the route brings together Emiel Janssens’s Mathieu house (1929), whose occupants fled the German occupation in 1940 thanks to visas from Aristide de Sousa Mendes, the Thibaut house, one of René Cnoops’s first works (1927), the apartment building Louis Van Rijmenant designed and built on his own account (1925), Florent Vaes’s Résidence du Centenaire (1932), eight storeys high, and a multi-family house of 1929 whose plans were drawn up by the firm Gebroeders Vermeulen. On the Strijdhoflaan, Eduard Van Steenbergen’s own house (1925), protected as a monument since 1988, refers according to its inventory record to Dutch architecture and to Frank Lloyd Wright. The route ends in Wilrijk, with a multi-family house by Constant Wilbers (1935) and, on the Meerlenlaan, a house by Jean Alphonse Pots (1931), in a sober Art Deco with modernist features, and a villa by the brothers Hippoliet and Jules De Vos (1925).

9 stops · Duration 2h30 · Distance 3,5 km

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1. Maison Mathieu, Elisabethlaan 45 — Anvers

   Emiel Janssens · 1929

   Town house in the Art Deco style built for Francine Mathieu after an April 1929 design by the architect Emiel Janssens (signature in metal letters on the façade); work began on 25 May 1929.

2. Maison Thibaut, Koninklijkelaan 15 — Anvers

   René Cnoops · 1927

   Art Deco town house in Berchem, designed in 1927 by the architect René Cnoops, as stated on the façade, for Daniel Thibaut, who ran a printing works and stationer's on the Meir.

3. Immeuble à appartements Van Rijmenant, Koninklijkelaan 39 — Anvers

   Louis Van Rijmenant · 1925

   Semi-detached Art Deco apartment building on the corner of Koninklijkelaan and Hilda Ramstraat in Berchem, designed and built on his own account by the architect Louis Van Rijmenan

4. Résidence du Centenaire — Anvers

   Florent Vaes & Van Riel et Van den Bergh (entrepreneur) · 1932

   Apartment building in the Art Deco style designed in 1931 by Florent Vaes for the Entreprise de Maçonnerie, Béton Armé et Menuiserie (E.M.B.A.M.), a subsidiary of the general contractor Van Riel & Van den Bergh.

5. Maison plurifamiliale Art déco, Koninklijkelaan 82 — Anvers

   Gebroeders Vermeulen (entrepreneur) · 1929

   Art Deco multi-family house in Berchem, built for the contractor Louis Vermeulen to a design of late 1928; the works were carried out in 1929 by the building firm Gebroeders Vermeulen, which also drew up the plans.

6. Maison de l'architecte Eduard Van Steenbergen — Anvers

   Eduard Van Steenbergen · 1925

   The architect Eduard Van Steenbergen's own house, built in 1925 in the Art Deco style (permit file of 3 March 1925).

7. Maison plurifamiliale Art déco, Frans van Dunlaan 57 — Anvers

   Constant Wilbers · 1935

   Art Deco multi-family house in Wilrijk, built for Mrs August De Meyer to a June 1935 design by the architect Constant Wilbers.

8. Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Meerlenlaan 56 — Anvers

   Jean Alphonse Pots · 1931

   Semi-detached town house in Wilrijk, in a sober Art Deco style with modernist features, built for the clerk H.

9. Villa Art déco, Meerlenlaan 48 — Anvers

   Hippoliet De Vos & Jules De Vos · 1925

   Art Deco villa in Wilrijk, built to a 1925 design by the architects Hippoliet and Jules De Vos, the latter formally submitting the permit application, for Vital Verdun, managing di

Translated from the French original.