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Flemish Brabant

Halle-Vilvoorde

Pond of the Old Sandstone Quarry Kravaalbos

Flemish Brabant

Halle-Vilvoorde

Pond of the Old Sandstone Quarry Kravaalbos

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Pond of the Old Sandstone Quarry Kravaalbos

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

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Dominiek Van Dooren

February 28, 2023

Hiking

The large pond in the Kravaalbos forest is a remnant of a historic quarry. As early as the 12th century, a closed farmstead, once used for stone quarrying, stood on the site of Hof te Putte. Hof te Putte and Putstraat clearly refer to the quarries. The forest also owes its name to them. Kravaal comes from "car" and "vaal," meaning "stone" and "valley."
(Kravaalbos Hiking Brochure)

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October 26, 2020

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There is a large pond between the undisturbed and disturbed forest of approximately 1.5 hectares, created by the extraction of sandstone. In the twelfth century, stone quarries were exploited at the initiative of the Affligem Abbey. These were already exhausted at the end of the sixteenth century. The parish churches of Mazenzele, Baardegem and Meldert (East Flanders) were built with this sandstone. St. Michael's Cathedral in Brussels and St. John's Cathedral in 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands are also made from this sandstone.
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kravaalbos

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🇧🇪 Herwig Aertbeliën

April 21, 2025

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Where once one of Meldert's most important quarries lay, now the clear water of a large pond sparkles. At first this was a marshland, but in 1962 a stream was dammed and the quarry filled up.

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

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