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Urbanus Statue in Tollembeek

Urbanus Statue in Tollembeek

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Urbanus Statue in Tollembeek

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Location: Galmaarden, Halle-Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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1. Little bridge – Herne Church loop from Herne

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2. Herne Church – Little bridge loop from Tollembeek

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3. Brillant Brabant Draft Horse – Path Along the Mark River loop from Tollembeek

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February 14, 2022

The monument commemorates Urbanus (born 1949), a comedian famous in Flanders. His real name is Urbain Servranckx. As Urbanus van Anus (yes, the word is the same as in German) he started his career in the seventies with absurd, sometimes vulgar humor.

Together with the draftsman Willy Linthout, he developed the comic series Urbanus in 1982, in which the fictional youth of the young Urbanus is presented. The memorial shows this same comic hero Urbanus together with the hummingbird Amedee and his two-legged dog Nabuko Donosor.

At the back of the statue you will find an empty niche with a small lever. When you pull it, a rooster will appear inside. This commemorates the rooster kidnapping some 200 years ago when the rooster was stolen from the local church tower.

The kidnappers would only give him back if the farmers let them have their best chickens. But they preferred to look for the culprits. That's why the inhabitants of Tollembeek are also called "Hanenzoekers": Rooster seekers. But the word also has another, more shabby meaning - but we'll explain that to you another time...

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Jeff S

September 3, 2023

From ladies with a fur coat, until Jezeke was born, he sang it all... Now he is here showing off his village...

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Mollem Walker

April 26, 2021

In the Hernestraat in Tollembeek is the Bronze Urbanus statue that was inaugurated on April 8, 2000. The idea came from Urbanus himself. Mayor Georges Cardoen-blesser was immediately in favor of the initiative, but a government budget was not available for it. Urbanus paid for the costs of creating the statue and the pedestal.
Sculptor Koenraad Tinel, living in neighboring Vollezele and a good friend of Urbanus, provided his technical assistance in the realization of the Urbanus statue, which he executed three-dimensionally after a design by Urbain Servranckx himself. The statue weighs 400 kg and was cast in the Van Geert art foundry in Aalst. The image would become something playful, something that children (and adults) can spin.

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Location: Galmaarden, Halle-Vilvoorde, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium

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Urbanus Statue in Tollembeek

1. Little bridge – Herne Church loop from Herne

2. Herne Church – Little bridge loop from Tollembeek

3. Brillant Brabant Draft Horse – Path Along the Mark River loop from Tollembeek

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