In 1902 Jozef Van Engeland and Maria Lavreysen started a grocery store where one could have a drink while waiting. The store space became smaller and smaller, the barroom bigger and bigger. Then son and daughter continued the operation. The café De Kroon has hardly changed since the early eighties. Heating was installed and the toilets received a new floor.
The café has hardly changed since the early eighties.
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When they cracked open the floor of the café, they discovered authentic black and white tiles underneath. They decided to keep them. As a result, they did lower the café a few inches. But nothing that a "raise" here and there couldn't fix. Immediately the reason why the stove is here on a little podium.
Café Het Trefhuysch
On the south side of the village square is café Het Trefhuysch. The building, which has been designated a designated architectural heritage, dates from the early 20th century and was originally a two-dwelling building. In the first part, which now houses the café, J. Claessen-Van Leemput lived. In the second part, now already demolished, the town clerk Egidius Joosten-Van Leemput used to live. In the 1990s, the café was Route 66.
