Mol, Belgium

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The municipality of Belgium located in the province of Antwerp Mol. It has 34 827 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2012).

Industry and research

Mol houses the Research Centre for Nuclear Energy (SCK • CEN), the largest and most important nuclear research center of the country. About 600 scientists and technicians Nuclear Safety, Research in the waste sector, radiation protection and safeguards are there mainly in the areas concerned. The center was founded on April 9, 1952 and 1957 converted into a public institution. The non-nuclear activities of the center have been relocated to the Flemish Institute for Technological Research ( VITO ) 1991. From 1967 to 1974, the reprocessing plant Eurochemic was operated in Mol. In addition to the research facilities of SCK • CEN also still in operation, fuel fabrication for uranium and mixed oxide fuel elements are located in Mol.

In the members of the village community Gompel is a glass factory.

Attractions

  • In the extreme north of the parish, on the border with the Netherlands, located in a wooded area, the village Postel. It is known for the more than 900 year old abbey of the same name, where the famous abbey beer brewed Posteler and fine cheese. The abbey can be visited under the guidance and has a small restaurant.
  • Elsewhere in the community can make in forests and heathland beautiful walks.
  • In the nearby hamlet Achterbos there is a crossroads with 15 whitewashed chapels memory.
  • Ezaart is a historic windmill (1856 ), and a Way of the Cross Chapel with Linden. Ezaart also got an old chapel of St. Willibrord. The exact building date is unknown, but documents of 1494 already mentioned this chapel.
  • In the center of the mole is massive, worth seeing Peter and Paul Church ( 15th century ); before her stands the town hall (18th - 19th century). Other historical buildings, there are only sporadically in place mol.
  • Every Sunday there is an animal market, the so-called Konijnenmarkt ( " Rabbit Market") held on the square in the Corbiestraat. The Konijnenmarkt since 1880 takes place on this marketplace.

Mole, Church

Community partnerships

Mole maintains since 1980 a partnership with the German Kall and since 2007 with the Nigerien Caracara.

Local structure

Mole is a geographically large town and is composed out of mole - center or from other eleven districts, including Achterbos, Donk, Ezaart, Ginderbuiten, Gompel, heath Huizen, Millegem, Rauw, Sluis, Wezel and the very sparsely populated district Postel in the north of the municipal territory which is connected only by a narrow road to the center of the community.

Sons and daughters of the town

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