Wilmarsdonk was a village in

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

, north of

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, which has disappeared under the

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expansion. The village was first mentioned in 1155 and merged into the city of Antwerp in 1927. The village was sacrificed to the expansion of the harbor and destroyed in 1965. Only the church tower was preserved.

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