Rumst

Rumst is a municipality in the Belgian province of Antwerp and lies at the confluence of Dyle and Nete to the Rupel . The municipality has three sub-municipalities Rumst, Terhagen and Reet , has about 15,000 population and belongs to the judicial and electoral canton of Boom . The merged municipality specially Terhagen and the a part of Rumst at the banks of the Rupel continues to be acknowledged for its severa clay pits and brickyards , despite the fact that almost they all have disappeared for the reason that 1980s . The forests of chimneys that could be observed until that point were demolished years ago and in the meanwhile 2006 only remain. In Reet and on the Vosberg the Eastern part of Rumst however, nearly exclusively agriculture and horticulture have been done. In recent decades, the municipality has advanced itself as a inexperienced outlying location

between Mechelen and Antwerp with a focus on pastime, in particular thru the bicycle and pedestrian bridges over Nete and Dijle, and residing. Van Dessel states that Rumst changed into a Roman villa inhabited through a local populace. This was particularly concerned with agriculture and the extraction of clay . With this clay become pottery produced, which was carried out in turn via the one hand, the Rupel, then again, the grasp job . This lane would have walked from Bavai to Utrecht and bridged the Rupel inside the instant vicinity of Rumst . The first vici to the north of Rumst were the ones of Kontich and Mortsel , to the south those had been those of Asse and Elewijt .