Alost

Alost (in Dutch Aalst ) is a common city and Dutch-speaking of Belgium located in Flemish Région, Chef-lieu of district in Province of Flanders-Eastern on the Dendre. It is halfway between Brussels and Ghent (in the zone densément populated Belgium), and is the center of a conurbation (with the communes of Erpe-Mother, Haaltert and Lede) approximately cash 130.000 inhabitants.

Armorial bearings

The current weapons of the city are derived from older weapons. The seals of the city of 13th and 14th centuries were composed of a knight carrying a sword in a hand and the banner of the Comté of Flanders in the other. The first representation of the current weapons goes back to 1557. Their Blasonnement is: of money, with the sword of mouths in stake, the point in top, accompanied as a Dextral chief by an escutcheon by the Empire and as a Sinistral chief by an escutcheon by Flanders; who are: 1 of gold, with the eagle éployée with two heads of sand, languée, beakful and membrée of mouths. 2: of gold, with the sand lion, armed and lampassé of mouths. The sword points out the knight, the two escutcheons recall that Alost belongs at the same time to the Comté of Flanders and with the Holy roman Empire. These weapons were officially granted in 1819 and were confirmed in 1841.

Monuments and events

  • Collégiale Saint Martin's day of the 15th century
  • Celebrates Carnaval
  • Thierry Martens (in Dutch: Dirk Martens ) in 1473 establishes there the first printing works of the Netherlands. Its statue is ironically called " Of zwarte man" (the black man, because of the printing ink).
  • Statue of Adolf Daens
  • Belfry of the 13th century

Economy

Personalities

  • Pieter Coecke van Ælst, multi-media artist before the hour
  • Dirk Martens ( Ca 1446-1534), promoter of printing works in the southernmost Netherlands

See too

External bond

  • Official site of the city (in Dutch)

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