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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën
April 12, 2025
Cycling
The Jaw or pillory is a monument located on the Kerkplein. This is also where the saying of 'putting something on the line' comes from. People were put on the line in the past. This often meant that they were made a fool of in public for a while.
Historical interpretation: The expression was originally something else: putting someone on the line. The jaw was a platform, platform or scaffold. Criminals were put on it to punish them in front of everyone or to have them ridiculed by the public.
Historical interpretation: The expression was originally something else: putting someone on the line. The jaw was a platform, platform or scaffold. Criminals were put on it to punish them in front of everyone or to have them ridiculed by the public.
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•Viviane
April 24, 2024
Hiking
The pillory is a monument in the Antwerp town of Heist-op-den-Berg, which is located on Kerkplein.
This is a 17th-century pillory, designed as an octagonal bluestone column. The pillory has a mask head with an iron ring. As a result of the French Revolution, the pillory was removed in 1797. In 1948 it was placed back on the slope of the Heistse Berg and in 1970 it was placed on Kerkplein.
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This is a 17th-century pillory, designed as an octagonal bluestone column. The pillory has a mask head with an iron ring. As a result of the French Revolution, the pillory was removed in 1797. In 1948 it was placed back on the slope of the Heistse Berg and in 1970 it was placed on Kerkplein.
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•Viviane
April 24, 2024
Hiking
Bluestone pump in Heist-op-den-Berg, monument in honor of the Heist veterans from 1830
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