Since the end of December 2001, the two-and-a-half-meter-high cast-iron water pump has once again graced the village center of Bellem.

After the exceptionally dry summer of 1858, Mrs. Jeanne De Naeyer-Van Caeneghem proposed donating a water pump to the people of Bellem. The council of the time naturally agreed. Thanks to the village pump, the people of Bellem received clean, uncontaminated water. Around 1900, the pump was removed from the village square and found a new location in the Mariahove estate. The municipal council decided to restore the pump and move it back to its original location, near the lime trees near the church.

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