Woluwe Park, Protected heritage park in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre and Auderghem, Belgium.
Parc de Woluwe is an English-landscape park of 63 to 69 hectares in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, between Avenue de Tervueren and Boulevard du Souverain. Élie Lainé used the 30-metre drop to shape a rolling terrain of long winding paths, lawns and groves, with three artificial ponds in cascade fed by the Bemel stream. A pale path runs along the wooded bank of the still water.
King Leopold II initiated the park's creation in the late 1800s to enhance Avenue de Tervueren for Brussels World Exposition in 1897. The project transformed the then rural area into a modern public space and shaped the development of the surrounding neighborhoods.
The park serves as a gathering place where neighbors and families use the open meadows for leisure and the paths as daily routes through their neighborhoods. You see people jogging, playing with children, and simply sitting on benches that line the green spaces.
The park lies between Avenue de Tervueren and Boulevard du Souverain, with the former Brussels-Tervuren railway line running through it as a path. The grounds slope over 30 metres, so allow for climbs between the three cascade ponds. The Devil's Bridge remains under Avenue Vander Swaelmen.
The park keeps the name of the Mesdael wood that once covered this ground; by 1863 only this remnant survived. A stream, the Bemel, feeds three artificial ponds dug in cascade, and the earth removed was used to raise the railway embankment. The Devil's Bridge still passes under Avenue Vander Swaelmen.
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