Église Saint-Sulpice de Neerheylissem
L'église Saint-Sulpice située à Neerheylissem, village de la commune belge d'Hélécine, en province du Brabant wallon, est une église de style roman édifiée en tuffeau.
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Hélécine is a municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. It has a total area is 16.62 km2 and had total population of 3,068 as of January 1, 2006, giving it a population density of 185 inhabitants per km2.
The municipality consists of the following districts: Linsmeau, Neerheylissem, and Opheylissem.
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Hélécine Castle is a large residence in Opheylissem in the municipality of Hélécine, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium.
The present building represents the remains of the former Premonstratensian Opheylissem Abbey, which was dissolved in 1796. Most of the buildings were destroyed, but the abbot's house remained, and in 1870 was restructured by the architect Alphonse Balat in its present form. Balat laid out the surrounding park at the same time.
The house and park were acquired by the Province of Brabant, and after 1995 became that of the Province of Walloon Brabant.
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Goetsenhoven Airfield is a former Belgian Air Force base, located 2 miles south of Tienen, approximately 42 km east-southeast of Brussels.
The airfield was last used militarily as a training facility for Belgian Air Cadets, equipped with six Piper L21B Super Cubs, and several Schleicher K 8B Gliders.
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Eliksem is a village located in the Belgian province of Flemish Brabant.
It is part of the municipality of Landen.
The village is known for the Battle of Elixheim, where the word Elixheim is an 18th-century English/French transformation of Eliksem.
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At the Battle of Elixheim, 18 July 1705, also known as the Passage of the Lines of Brabant during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Anglo-Dutch forces of the Grand Alliance, under the Duke of Marlborough and Field Marshal Ouwerkerk, successfully broke through the French Lines of Brabant. These lines were an arc of defensive fieldworks stretching in a seventy-mile arc from Antwerp to Namur. Although the Allies were unable to bring about a decisive battle, the breaking and subsequent razing of the lines would prove critical to the Allied victory at Ramillies the next year.
