Wulmersum / Vulmersom / Wilmersum / Wommersom / Wulmersen / Wulmersom / Wuluersum / Wuluezem

The former parish church fo St Dionysius was demolished ca. 1847 [NB: we have no information on its font] A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 9 September 2022) notes: "The history of Wulmersum has not yet been thoroughly explored. Many authors still refer to the works of Wauters and Bets. Both historical monographs, however, date back to the 19th century. Without wishing to detract from their extraordinary merits, they are nevertheless incomplete in many respects. A lot of archive material was lost due to the fire that had been set to the Hakendover town hall during the Second World War. For a long time Wulmersum had its own Chapel of St. Dionysius, which was also called a church. The church of Wulmersum was an "ecclesia media". The hamlet of Wulmersum was once an independent parish. According to Bets (1888), this chapel was donated to the church of St. Lambertus in Liège in 1036 by the noble lord Radulfus and his wife Gisla. (It is possible, however, that the charter refers to the chapel of the village of Wommersom). Some later names: 1482 In Wuluezem der Capellen aldair (RA f. 26), 1577 De Capelle van Wuluersum (RL f. 9v), 1655 kerck van wulmersom (k.Park TB f. 100). The building was demolished around 1847 for the construction of the Brussels-Liège railway. In the same year a small farm is built with the demolition material from the chapel. Among other things, the doors and the clock were recovered. If masses of documents can be found in the archives about the demolished buildings during the construction of the railway route Leuven - Tienen, then we have bad luck for the section Tienen - Landen, to which Wulmersum belongs: the documents have been lost, or are not yet classified. One cannot tell us with certainty in the Railway Museum itself."