Lummen, Halen and Genenbos

The versatile Lummen consists of a few picturesque hamlets. The area has various elements of the Hageland, Haspengouw and the Kempen. Rolling fields, beautiful orchards and a sandy soil with remnants of heathland, forests and peat areas. The area around Lummen is a small-scale landscape and you will come across small villages where the cozy 'we know each other' feeling still exists. In Lummen itself, industry is firmly established; there are four industrial zones. This means that the town in the Hasselt district can safely be called an economic growth center. There are nice sights, including a number of beautiful castles. The artificially created Schulensmeer offers you a beautiful, wide view. With a bit of luck, you will see one of the dozens of fish species in the lake happily jumping out of the water. Halen is a city that had a hard time during the First World War. In 1914, the Battle of the Silver Helmets took place here, in which the Belgians achieved a victory over the German cavalry. A beautiful museum about this historic battle has been established in the municipality. Halen has traditionally been a transhipment point where the cargo of the larger inland vessels was transferred to smaller inland vessels, but the largest economic activity was the cloth trade. The location of the current town hall used to be the Lakenhal, where all types of cloth were sold and purchased.