Flamisoul

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Location of Bertogne and Flamisoul in the Belgian province of Luxembourg

Flamisoul , also spelled Flamisoulle , is a Belgian street village in the Bastogne arrondissement in the Walloon province of Luxembourg . The village belonged to Longchamps until 1977 , but in 1977 it became part of the Bertogne commune together with Longchamps . Flamisoul is mainly known for the post office on the Dutch Post Course, which has been occupied since 1519, and as a junction . Century branched off a postal route to Lorraine and the Free County of Burgundy .

Post office

Flamisoul's oldest house
Property opposite the church

According to a deed from July 1469, the Seigneurie Flamisoul consisted of five houses and land. On May 2, 1519 Jacques Ballon and Jacques d'Esbeeck (Jacob von Hesbeck from Hoffelt) acquired the manor and the post office there. Hesbeck was then until his death in 1541 post holder in Flamisoul and since 1533 also tax collector of the Bastogne region . He was succeeded by Jean Ballon, who died in 1563.

Since 1569/70, Flamisoul has not only been used as a horse changing station at the Dutch postal rate , but also as a mail receiving and issuing point. For example, at the time of the first strike by the post office in Flamisoul , a Luxembourg messenger was delivering letters from Trier to Brussels. In addition, the post office was already a junction in the 16th century, from which a post route through Lorraine to Arrentho ( Arinthod or Arenthon ) in the Free County of Burgundy branched off.

Despite the shift of the Dutch postal rate in the late 17th century with the inclusion of the cities of Luxembourg and Trier, the village post station Flamisoul was not abandoned. Since 1680/81 the route ran from Brussels to Flamisoul and from there instead of through the northern Duchy of Luxembourg via Malmaison and Attert to Luxembourg / City.

After Münzberg and Geubel, the Flamisoul post office existed until 1814/15.

Village church

Chapelle St. Aldegonde with cemetery

On the south-eastern edge of the village in the direction of Bastogne is the Sainte-Aldegonde chapel , which is surrounded by a cemetery with grave monuments from the 19th century. The church consecrated to St. Aldegundis was built around 1626 in place of a previous building. It has a rectangular floor plan with a choir , which is characterized by three truncated corners. Inside there is a multi-colored altar from the 16th / 17th centuries. Century with a gilded statue of the Aldegundis. In the choir and in front of it, several members of the postmaster dynasty are buried under tombstones on the floor , with the tombstone of Jacques d'Esbeek from 1541 being the oldest. The church, including the cemetery and the surrounding wall, has been a listed building since 1987. Services are still held in the chapel today.

literature

  • Leon Bodé: The relocation of the Italian-Dutch postal course in the Hunsrück, Eifel and Ardennes region , in: Archive for German Postal History (AfdPg) 1/1994, pp. 8-19
  • Martin Dallmeier: Sources on the history of the European postal system 1501 - 1806, part II document registers , Verlag Michael Lassleben Kallmünz 1977
  • Philippe Geubel: Flamisoulle, sa chapelle, ses pierres tombales, ses seigneurs et maîtres de poste , Publication du Musée en Piconrue, Bastogne 1997

Web links

Commons : Flamisoul  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Philippe Geubel: Flamisoulle , 1997, p. 5.
  2. ^ Philippe Geubel: Flamisoulle , 1997, p. 13.
  3. ↑ Document of July 19, 1520 “Roman. Kr. Maj. Post à Hoffelt ”, cf. Ernst-Otto Simon, The postal course from Rheinhausen to Brussels over the centuries , in: Archive for German Postal History 1/1990, p. 28.
  4. ↑ The affiliation to the Dutch postal course is confirmed by a riding plan from January 1522 with the naming of the post stations between Brussels and Speyer, archive of the Katharinenspital Regensburg, estate Warschitz, archive number VI / 2 no. 4, folder undated documents.
  5. ^ Philippe Geubel: Flamisoulle , 1997, p. 13.
  6. ↑ Leo M. Gard, New materials on the early postal history of Trier , in: Postgeschichtliche Blätter from Trier, issue 1969/70, p. 8f with reference to the Trier city renting out invoices.
  7. ↑ Identification uncertain.
  8. ↑ Martin Dallmeier: Sources for the history of the European postal system 1501-1806, part II , 1977, p. 65, regest 134.
  9. ^ Leon Bodé: The relocation of the Italian-Dutch postal course in the Hunsrück, Eifel and Ardennes area , in: Archive for German Postal History (AfdPg) 1/1994, pp. 9 and 16ff.
  10. ↑ Werner Münzberg, Thurn and Taxis post station catalog , Verlag Michael Lassleben, Kallmünz 1967, p. 80.
  11. ↑ Description of the chapel  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , and Philippe Geubel: Flamisoulle , 1997, p. 6. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ardenne.org  
  12. ↑ Philippe Geubel: Flamisoulle , 1997, pp. 30-38.

Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′  N , 5 ° 38 ′  E