[1] It is located between the urban sports fields and the industrial zone on the Dender.

In the south, the park flows into the Osbroek nature reserve, which covers almost 25 hectares (62 acres).

[3] The park was built in 1915 and the construction was a way to give jobless people a job.

[6] The park was created in the year 1915–1916, the ground was a part of the Osbroek, which is in its turn a remain of the Silva Carbonaria.

[8] Circa 1990 had Bart Backaert, a worker of Groendienst Aalst, the idea to remove a part of the lawns.

[9] The park has 100 different types of trees, listing a few: the Quercus rubra, Salix sepulchalis ‘Chrysocoma’ and a Robinia pseudoacacia[1]