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Antwerp-Merksem — from Camelialei to Kroonplein
In Merksem, this short route brings together eleven Art Deco buildings from 1923 to 1935. It starts at the house on Camelialei designed in 1933 by the Merksem architect Hendrik Adolf Wittocx and at the multi-family houses on Begonialei (1923), built to be sold by the Merksem Welfare Office, then reaches the house of a Boerenbond director (1931). On Bredabaan, in a row of interwar houses, come a butcher’s house (1934), the one Armand De Backer designed in 1928 for the contractor Flor Van den Bulck, which keeps its Art Deco interior, and a house of 1928. On Van Heybeeckstraat stand a house by G. Wouters (1933), restored after the damage of 1945, and two houses of 1932 and 1933. The route also passes an apartment building on Du Chastellei (1935) and a police officer’s house (1930), and ends on Kroonplein at the Post X electrical substation (1934).
11 stops · Duration 2h30 · Distance 1,5 km
Maison Art déco, Camelialei 31 — Anvers
Art Deco house built in 1933 in Merksem for Eugeen Nieuwinckel, to plans by the Merksem architect Hendrik Adolf Wittocx, and carried out by the contractor Frans Goedleven.
Maisons plurifamiliales Art déco, Begonialei 20-22 — Anvers
Pair of semi-detached, mirrored multi-family houses in Art Deco style, built in 1923 in Merksem for sale by the Merksem Charity Office; as the original plan has not survived, the designer is unknown.
Maison de directeur du Boerenbond — Anvers
Town house in the Art Deco style, designed in 1931 by the engineer of the technical department of the Belgische Boerenbond, whose signature is hard to read, for Gérard Ariën, appoi
Maison Art déco, Bredabaan 658 — Anvers
Art Deco town house built in 1934 in Merksem for the butcher Karel Jan Willem Beckers – Gysen; the architect is unknown.
Maison Van den Bulck — Anvers
Art Deco town house designed in 1928 by the architect Armand De Backer for the contractor Flor Van den Bulck, who probably carried out the work himself; it belongs to a fairly homo
Maison Art déco, Bredabaan 638 — Anvers
Art Deco town house built in 1928 in Merksem for Jan Meyer; the architect is unknown.
Maison bourgeoise Art déco, Van Heybeeckstraat 58 — Anvers
An Art Deco town house in Merksem, built in 1933 to a design by the architect G.
Maisons Art déco, Van Heybeeckstraat 27-29 — Anvers
Two adjoining Art Deco houses in Merksem: an apartment building of 1932 (no.
Immeuble à appartements Art déco, Du Chastellei 59 — Anvers
Art Deco apartment building constructed in 1935 in Merksem on the initiative of the clerk Jozef Leonard Miel-Lause, who sold it the same year; as the building file has not survived, the designer is unknown.
Maison Art déco, Dokter Maurice Timmermanslaan 107 — Anvers
Art Deco town house built in 1930 in Merksem for the police officer Camiel Corneel Coppelaere-De Clerck.
Cabine électrique Post X — Anvers
Transformer station X of 1934, with an Art Deco façade, one of a series of brick electricity substations built in the late 1920s and the 1930s for the Société d'Électricité de l'Escaut, each with its own façade design.
Translated from the French original.