Royal Crypt Laeken

Recently i stayed at Brussels for a few days. There is visited also the Royal Crypt at the Notre Dame at Laeken where all the members of the belgian Royal Family are buried. The Crypt is only open on Sunday afternoons on the death-anniversaries of King Albert I., Queen Astrid, King Léopold III., King Baudouin I. and a few other days.
After the death of Queen Louise-Marie, née Princess of Orléans it was decided to build a Church at Laeken where she would be buried according to her own wishes. In 1854 it was started to build the Church and on 07.08.1872 the Church was inaguarated but she was not entire ready.





Genealogy-Tree of the belgian Royal
Family at the Entrance in the Crypt

The stairs leading in the Crypt



Picture of King Baudouin I.

Grave of King Léopold III. (1901-1983), Queen
Astrid, née Princess of Sweden (1905-1935)
and Princess Lilian, née Baels (1916-2002)

Grave of King Léopold II. (1835-1902) and Queen
Marie Henriette, née Arcchducess of Austria (1837-1902)

Grave of King Léopold I. (1790-1865) and Queen Louise
Marie, née Princess of Oléans (1812-1850)

Grave of King Albert I. (1875-1934) and Queen
Elisabeth, née Duchess in Bavaria (1876-1965)

Grave of King Baudouin I. (1930-1993)

Grave of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders (1837-1905) and
Princess Marie, Countess of Flanders, née Princess of
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1845-1912)

Graves of Princes Charles, Count of Flanders
(1903-1983), Prince Léopold, Duke of Brabant (1859-1869)
and Princess Joséphine (1870-1871)

Entrance in the Side Chapel: There are the Graves of

Prince Louis-Philippe, Duke
of Brabant (1833-1834)

Princess Charlotte, Empress of
Mexico (1840-1927)

and

Prince Leopold-Emanuel of
Liechtenstein (1984)

emo boy

This emo boy has the most awesome hair. Agree?

Lichtenstein Castle

This is not the first Castle on this place. Orignally there as the Castle of the Knights of Lichtenstein and old noble Family who died out in the 17. Century. Some time in the City Wars the Lords of Lichtenstein came into disput with the City of Reutlingen which finally took over the Castle and destroyed it in 1377. Another Castle was the build some miles further by the Counts of Württemberg. Amiong others it was the place where Duke Ulrich flied to. The Castle beame more and more desolat. In 1837 Duke Wilhelm of Urach, Count of Württemberg bought it from his cousin, King Wilhelm I. of Württemberg. He build on it a neogothic Castle. The Inspiration for it he got from the Roman "Lichtenstein" from Wilhelm Hauff which he had read as a child. This Castle was build after the plans of the Architekt Heidloff from Nürnberg.