Tram station De Haan aan Zee
Address Concession district
City/Neighborhood The Cock
Style(s)
- Art Nouveau
Original use
- Train station
Année 1902
Architect(s) and/or artist(s)
- Dhayer G.
Remarkable elements
- Carpentry
The Brussels architect G. Dhayer was commissioned by the municipality of De Haan aan Zee to design the new tram station, replacing the previous small metal pavilion called "blekken-statie".
The "concession" district is booming, villas and hotels are being built there in the very fashionable Anglo-Norman style, following a 90-year concession from the Belgian State, in order to subdivide this part of the coast covered in dunes.
The small station is in pure Anglo-Norman style with Art Nouveau accents (typography of the name of the place on hard stone on the pediments).
Made of yellow bricks and hard stone, all in symmetry with its overhanging roof and its elegant painted wooden pillars, it still exudes its old-world charm today.
It almost got destroyed in 1977, during the years of real estate rage, but was saved by an action committee! The whole neighborhood has also been protected.
Completely restored in 2002, it now houses the tourist office.
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