relaxation In Voscapel (1719), the birthplace of Marie Abts-Ermens The original flag of Belgium, designed by Jottrand and Ducpétiaux, sewn by Marie Abts-Ermens.
Marie Abts-Ermens (Kortenberg, April 10, 1767) was a seamstress and ancestor of a fabric store in Brussels in 1830. She was the one who sewed the first Belgium flag.
Marie Ermens was born as the eldest daughter of Lambertus Ermens and Petronilla Schuermans. The Ermens family was a family of sight in Kortenberg. Both the uncle and the grandfather had been Kortenberg's dairy. She spent her childhood in the house 'In Voscapel' whose father Lambert Ermens was owner and writer. In Voscapel was built in 1719 as an inn on the new stone road from Brussels to Leuven. She married François Abts and benefited her husband from a fabric store on the corner of the Grasmarkt and the Heuvelstraat.
Edouard Ducpétiaux, Doctor of Law of Education but Editor of Appeal, asked by colleague journalist and lawyer Lucien Jottrand on Thursday, August 26, 1830, to sew the first two by their designed Belgian flags by Marie Abts-Ermens in the substance case of the spouses Abts at the corner of the Grasmarkt and the Heuvelstraat. Then he drove to the town hall where he left the French flag during the revolt after the performance of the opera The Stupid of Portici the day before, by the new Belgian tricolor. The second flag seamed by Marie Abts-Ermens was taken in the processions by Brussels where the population was called upon to support the Belgian Revolution.
Her sewing was commended in the early twentieth century in a painting by Emile Vermeersch Madame Marie Abts manufactures the first Belgian flag, August 26, 1830. Since 1926, this painting has belonged to the collection of the Royal Museum of Army and Military History in Brussels. It is a painting with oil paint on canvas with dimensions 114 x 144.5 cm.
A plaque on the Grasmarkt corner house also reminds of this event.
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