Picture sent by Friends of Belgium member; Leo Schrauwen.Well, the picture I send you is from only two miles away from my house in the port of Antwerp.
It is the only remaining of the church of a small village Wilmarsdonk and is surrounded by lots of containers and docks these days. Wilmarsdonk was a village north of Antwerp, which has disappeared under the Port of Antwerp 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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