Elewijt is a village in the municipality of
Zemst,
Flemish Brabant
Flemish Brabant ( nl, Vlaams-Brabant ; french: Brabant flamand ) is a province of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on (clockwise from the North) the Belgian provinces of Antwerp, Limburg, Liège, Walloon Brabant, Haina ...
,
Belgium.
History
Roman period
The village was first founded in the 1st century as a Roman
vicus on a junction of roads. It kept existing until it was destroyed at the end of the third century. Hundreds of years later, a new village slowly began to arise, with the center half a mile to the south of the ruins of the old village.
post-Roman period
Throughout most of the late
Middle Ages, Elewijt and the nearby village of
Perk
Perk may refer to:
Places
*Perk, Belgium, part of the municipality of Steenokkerzeel
** Perk Castle, a castle near there
* Perk Summit, Victoria Land, Antarctica
People
* August Perk (1897–1945), anti-Nazi German resistance fighter
* Brian Perk ...
formed a
Herrschaft (territory) herrschaft. In the 11th century, a wooden fort was built in the southwestern part of the village. Later the
Elewijt Castle (''Het Steen'') was modernised and in the 1630s it was a residence of the famous painter
Pieter Paul Rubens.
Monuments
Elewijt contains the castle of
Het Steen, which was owned by
Peter Paul Rubens from 1635 to his death in 1640, and featured in some of his paintings.
Populated places in Flemish Brabant
Nervii
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