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Lier - Mechelen - Bruges - around Bruges - Ghent - Leuven - around Leuven - Brussels - around Brussels - Antwerp - around Antwerp - Zoutleeuw -
around Namur - Louvain-la-Neuve - Aachen - Coast - Breda - Maastricht - Roermond & neighbourhood - Eifel - Belgium 1920
The neighbourhood of the Cogels-Osylei, Antwerp Berchem
The neighbourhood of the Cogels-Osylei (a part of the district Zurenborg), including the Waterloostraat,
the Transvaalstraat and the Generaal van Merlenstraat, is a piece of the Art Nouveau heritage of Antwerp
which has survived all demolition attempts. The Church as well as the industry did go on making war to destroy
all Art Nouveau. To the Church the style was too frivolous and to paganish. The industry regarded it to be the
enemies of standard production, because Art Nouveau was aimed on employment and crafts. But the
neighbourhood has campaigned to preserve the houses, so they did survive all attempts to demolishing.
Each tourist visiting Antwerp should pay them a visit. The place is easy to reach with the train.
There are many trains from Antwerpen Centraal to Antwerpen Berchem, it takes five minutes,
and the area lies just beside the station. We start with a house in German woodwork, combined with neoclassicism.
Three sculptures supporting the balcony
Neo-classicistic
Combination neoclassicism with art nouveau
Den Ooievaar
Or a neoclassical building with
...Art Nouveau elements
De white mansions in neoclassical style
A window in Art Nouveau
...and a door in Art Nouveau
The crossing of the Generaal Van Merlenstraat with the Waterloostraat has four corner houses
in the same Art Noveau style representing the four seasons. First is Spring.
This is Summer
Winter
Detail of the Autumn house
Neoclassicism, Attic style
The neighbourhood of the Cogels-Osylei, Antwerp Berchem, part 2
Art Nouveau and plants can go together
House The Battle of Waterloo
Art Nouveau tiles
Again neoclassicism and Art Nouveau
Den Tijd (time), with on the left Den dag (the clear day, tiles are damaged) and on the right De Nacht (the night, tiles are intact)
Resembling balconies, with fishes in stead of flying lions
Not everyone let his front be cleaned on the same moment
An alien or a parody on musicians?
Islam inspired Art Nouveau. The name of the house on the right is...
...The Lotus
The end of the Cogels-Osylei
With a terrace at the roundabout with a passage under the railway
At the opposite side : there one can enter his house with the tram...
At the opposite side of the railway are more humble Art Nouveau or Art Deco houses,
often polluted and sometimes dilapidated.
