Dumont district

To the west of the Zeelaan lies the Dumont district, of which the Dumontlaan forms the central axis. In the Dumont district, you can still view a whole series of architectural parcels from the pre-war period. Architect Dumont was able to develop the first urbanization phase here on commission. Dumont was assisted by other architects such as Georges Hobé and Jozef Viérin. This subdivision experienced immediate enormous success. At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, a new bourgeois mentality emerges. People want to leave the cities. It is an extension of the "romantic period" (back to nature, panoramas; individual freedom). Exoticism comes into fashion. The development of hygiene and medicine that recommend healthy air is also a catalyst for aristocratic tourism.

Pascal Brackman