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Monument to police officers by Willy Kreitz

Year of construction: 1949

Style: Modernism

Architect: Willy Kreitz (1903-1982)

Between Volhardingstraat and Edgard Casteleinstraat is a green park on Pol de Montstraat, named after Pol De Mont (1857-1931), curator of the Museum of Fine Arts and champion of the Flemish struggle.
In the middle of this park is a bluestone monument erected in 1949 for the police officers who died in the two world wars.
It is a sculpture by sculptor Willy Kreitz, known for the Seamen's Monument on the Zeedijk in Ostend.

Kreitz was a traditional, figurative sculptor. He made sculptures and statues for public space and portrait busts. He was a teacher at the Antwerp Academy and at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts. Kreitz was also an ice hockey player, who participated with the Belgian team at the 1928 and 1936 Winter Olympics.
If you take a closer look at the monument, you may understand the nickname it was given in the district, namely 'the bare billekes'.
Every first Saturday of September, a memorial ceremony takes place here in the presence of the mayor, senior police officials and veterans

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• Text: www.toongrobet.be
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