Portfolio Category: walk-blue route

PASTOOR GORDIJN (AUGUST NOBELS) Large school buildings, a parish hall and a home for the elderly flank the wide Hofstraat. There, close to the statue of Our Lady Mary, in all its simplicity, is the portrait of Pastor Gordijn (1862-1939).   Gordijn was pastor of the parish Onze-Lieve-Vrouw. He succeeded the socially committed pastor De…

DE WEG NAAR KENNIS (ROBERT VANDEREYCKEN) The artist Robert Vandereycken is not only a sculptor, but also a graphic designer, which clearly shows in this work ‘De weg naar kennis - The way to knowledge’. He appears to be making a three-dimensional transformation of a stylized drawing. He simplifies and structures the volumes, delineates the…

ANTON VAN WILDERODE (WILFRIED PAS) On the corner of the Collegestraat we can see the porch of theRecollects church, adjacent to the  Recollects friars’ convent, who had to flee Hulst in 1646. The church was built in a Baroque style and was completed in 1696. Later, and up to this day, the convent buildings accommodate…

MARIABEELD (FRANS VAN HAVERMAET) To the left of the entrance to ‘Het Hof’, a home for the elderly, you’ll find a neoclassical statue depicting Our Lady, made of French sandstone. It dates from the late nineteenth century (1876). The statue used to stand over the main entrance gate to the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Presentatie School, in the Plezantstraat.…