Heist-op-den-Berg

Heist-op-den-Berg is a municipality located inside the Belgian province of Antwerp . The municipality comprises Heist-op-den-Berg right Hallaar, Itegem, Schriek and Wiekevorst. The forty eight-meter-high hill on which Heist would later be built changed into shaped at some point of the early a part of the Ice age. As may be preferred from the artifacts proven on the nearby museum at the metropolis's foremost rectangular, this vicinity changed into already populated in prehistoric times. Soon after the Romans yielded this land to the invading Germanic peoples inside the 3rd and 4th century, Christianization observed. The village of Itegem, located right on the Nete River, became maximum probable the first hamlet to be founded, as advised by means of a report courting from 976.

Chapels in Hallaar and Itegem were built within the twelfth century. This century also marked the beginnings of the Duchy of Brabant, of which this complete location turned into a component. Around the yr 1200, a army fort was built on the present day vicinity of the Ter Laken fortress, on Booischot's territory. Schriek, which became based in 1125, got its very own chapel in 1260 whilst the main church at Heist became constructed in 1340. These two religious homes have been closely broken all through the wars of religion around 1600.