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Wiesbeekhoeve Historic Farmstead

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Wiesbeekhoeve Historic Farmstead

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Location: Buggenhout, Dendermonde, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

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1. Retention Basins Lebbeke – Willow Arboretum Lebbeke loop from Lebbeke

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2. Hof Ten Dijke Nature Reserve – Retention Basins Lebbeke loop from Heizijde

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3. Hof Ten Dijke Nature Reserve – Bench With a View of the Lake loop from Pollepel

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Dominiek Van Dooren

May 12, 2024

It is sometimes wrongly thought that the Wiesbeekhoeve takes its name from the Wiesbeek, as the Brabantse beek is also called in that area. However, it is the other way around! The name 'Wiesbeek' has nothing to do with the 'brook', but everything to do with the name of the owners of the farm in the 16th century. In the book with hereditary annuities for the Church of Opwijk, Heysterghem belongs in 1515 to Beatrijs Wisch, successor of Willem Wysch. The first mention of Wyserbeke as a name for the Brabantse Beek also dates from 1515 (Den Opstal, village of the year, p.44).

(Municipality of Buggenhout)

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DirkWi

April 22, 2024

Impressive former farm complex and horse stud founded in 1914-1915 by Cesar Temmerman on the site of the old Wiesbeek farm, a historic tenant farm dating back to early medieval Heysterghem.

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DirkWi

April 22, 2024

There is a special story from the First World War surrounding this stud farm:

César Temmerman (° 1874) was chief equerry in the castle of Bouchout for Princess Charlotte of Belgium and Maximilian of Austria. He took the mares to the Hooghof in Zellik to have them covered. There he met his future wife, Alice Verheyden. He married her in 1902.

Later he was able to buy a farm in Opstal, where he would make a splash with the Brabant draft horse Indigène de Wisbecq.

The animal became the first horse from Flanders to become national champion in June 1914, a few months before the war broke out.

Unfortunately, the Germans had also heard of the horse's fame. They were looking for the best bloodlines and were eager to claim it. During the war, more than 19,000 draft horses were taken.

After repeated skirmishes between Belgian and German soldiers in the area, César took no chances and decided to evacuate the horse. The animal spent the night in the stables of the Segers mill in Buggenhout center. There were also horses from the Belgian artillery.

The next day Indigène left on foot for Zeeland together with Denis De Batselier ("den Trekker"). César stayed on his farm to guard it.

The Germans were so angry that the farm horse had escaped them that they shot holes in the farm. The building still shows traces of it.

Horses were also of military importance during the First World War. During the First World War, a total of between six and eight million horses died. They were hit by machine guns and grenades, suffered from scabies or colic, died of cold, hunger, exhaustion or from eating grass poisoned by mustard gas.

Source: information board on site

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Location: Buggenhout, Dendermonde, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

Wiesbeekhoeve Historic Farmstead

1. Retention Basins Lebbeke – Willow Arboretum Lebbeke loop from Lebbeke

2. Hof Ten Dijke Nature Reserve – Retention Basins Lebbeke loop from Heizijde

3. Hof Ten Dijke Nature Reserve – Bench With a View of the Lake loop from Pollepel

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