BELGIUM-ROOTS Project Province East-Flanders (Flanders) Municipality Lochristi Outline related to Belgian Emigration

Description

This Dutch-speaking municipality was founded 1795 (initially composed of the parish Lochristi) and is situated 10 Km NE from Ghent. His administrative District was and is Ghent.

In 1919 the limits between Zeveneken and Lochristi where changed.

The census of 1948 give the following figures:

Population of 5131, 1355 houses, 2126 ha surface (899 ha fields, 452 ha grasslands, 62 ha orchard, ...), The cattle was composed of 294 horses, 1883 cows, 1490 pigs, ... .

And the hamlets where Bastelaar, Bosstraat, Bundermolen, Geitkotmolen, Hijfte, Lichtelaar, Lobos, Lohoeksken, Smallen heirweg, Walseland, West.


The population figure was end 1976 7062, and started in 1977 with 15061, when the municipalities Beervelde (2660), Zaffelare (3191) and Zeveneken (2148) where attached. In 1982 the limits between Lokeren and Lochristi where slightly adapted.

Territorial Subdivisions

Short History with Bibliography

• Bibliography

  • Images

    Estaminet - Bakery "Aux Champs Elisées"

    This "estaminet", situated on the main raod from Antwerp to Gent (buidl around 1750), in Lichtelare, a hamlet of Lochristi between the town and a local tollhouse on the border with Oostakker, was before WWI one of the so called "Horse Inns" between Lokeren and Ghent. The small stable was situated at the right of the estaminet, and isn't visible on the photo. This image dates probably before 1914.
    This estaminet did feel the impact of the abolition of the local toll barriers end of the 19th century. It was a meeting point, to arrange some situations and circumvent some taxes.
    Was destroyed and replaced with a modern house, when the grandgrandson of the man who build this estaminet returned from Congo in the early sixties. His grandfather was a lorry driver beteween Lokeren and Genth end of the 19th century.

Sources

Repositories

Societies

• Message Boards

• Yahoo! Group LhoGenea moderated by Kristel Wautier

Migration / Emigration / Immigration

Families and Family Histories

Sciences

• Onomastics

• Sint-Niklaas

  List of places, named after St Nocholas

• Folklore

  • Giants

    Click here for a image of the giants "Reinaert" and "Reinhilde", around 1965 in the parish Hijfte. The town Hijfte is mentioned in the saga of the "Reinaert the Fox".

• Heraldry

  
  The municipal Coat of Arms represents those of the abbeys of Sint-Pieters (at the left) and Sint-Baafs (at the right), because the four villages (Lochristi, Beervelde, Zeveneken and Zaffelare) did belong to the Manor of one of those abbeys.
  

• Law

  • Common law of the seigneurie of St Bavon (includes the main part of Lochristi)
  • Common Law of the seigneurie Hijfte

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