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Anderlecht Municipal Hall
The Municipal Hall (french: Hôtel communal; nl, Gemeentehuis) of Anderlecht is the municipal hall building and the seat of that municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Designed by the architect in neo-Flemish Renaissance style and completed in 1877, it is located at 1, / in Cureghem/Kuregem. This site is served by Clemenceau metro station on lines 2 and 6 of the Brussels Metro, as well as the tram stop / (on line 81). See also * Brussels Town Hall * Forest Municipal Hall The Municipal Hall (french: Hôtel communal, nl, Gemeentehuis) of Forest is the municipal hall building and the seat of that municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Built between 1935 and 1938, and qualified as a prototype of Brussels' Art Deco, t ... * Molenbeek-Saint-Jean Municipal Hall * Saint-Gilles Municipal Hall * Schaerbeek Municipal Hall References Citations Bibliography * Jean Van Audenhove, Anderlechtenia, ''Les Rues d'Anderlecht'' (in French), CAFHA (1995), p. 80–81. * Jean-Marie Del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Town Hall
In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses the city or town council, its associated departments, and their employees. It also usually functions as the base of the mayor of a city, town, borough, county or shire, and of the executive arm of the municipality (if one exists distinctly from the council). By convention, until the middle of the 19th century, a single large open chamber (or "hall") formed an integral part of the building housing the council. The hall may be used for council meetings and other significant events. This large chamber, the "town hall" (and its later variant "city hall") has become synonymous with the whole building, and with the administrative body housed in it. The terms "council chambers", "municipal building" or variants may be used locally in preferen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trams In Brussels
The tram (or streetcar) system in Brussels, Belgium is the 16th largest tram system in the world by route length, in 2017 providing 149.1 million journeys (up 9.5% on 2016) over routes 140.6 km in length. In 2018, the Brussels tram system consisted of 18 tram lines (eight of which – lines 3, 4, 7, 25, 32, 51, 55 and 82 – qualified as premetro lines, and five of which - lines 3, 4, 7, 8 and 9 - qualified as "Chrono" or "Fast" lines). Its development has demonstrated many of the quandaries that face local public transport planners. The Brussels tram system also has several interesting peculiarities: the inconsistent route pattern resulting from the closure of the interurban trams, the conflict between low-floor surface trams and high-floor underground trams, and whether the trams run on the right or the left. History Before the First World War Belgium's first horse-drawn trams were introduced in Brussels in 1869, running from the Porte de Namur to the Bois de la Cambr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protected Heritage Sites In Brussels
Protection is any measure taken to guard a thing against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Although the mechanisms for providing protection vary widely, the basic meaning of the term remains the same. This is illustrated by an explanation found in a manual on electrical wiring: Some kind of protection is a characteristic of all life, as living things have evolved at least some protective mechanisms to counter damaging environmental phenomena, such as ultraviolet light. Biological membranes such as bark on trees and skin on animals offer protection from various threats, with skin playing a key role in protecting organisms against pathogens and excessive water loss. Additional structures like scales and hair offer further protection from the elements and from predators, with some animals having features such as spines or camouflage servin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipal And Town Halls In Brussels
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the governing body of a given municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district. The term is derived from French and Latin . The English word ''municipality'' derives from the Latin social contract (derived from a word meaning "duty holders"), referring to the Latin communities that supplied Rome with troops in exchange for their own incorporation into the Roman state (granting Roman citizenship to the inhabitants) while permitting the communities to retain their own local governments (a limited autonomy). A municipality can be any political jurisdiction, from a sovereign state such as the Principality of Monaco, to a small village such as West Hampton Dunes, New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schaerbeek Municipal Hall
The Municipal Hall (french: Hôtel communal; nl, Gemeentehuis) of Schaerbeek is the municipal hall building and the seat of that municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Designed by the architect in neo-Flemish Renaissance style and completed in 1887, it is located at the centre of the /. This site is served by the tram stop / (on line 55). See also * Anderlecht Municipal Hall * Brussels Town Hall * Forest Municipal Hall The Municipal Hall (french: Hôtel communal, nl, Gemeentehuis) of Forest is the municipal hall building and the seat of that municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Built between 1935 and 1938, and qualified as a prototype of Brussels' Art Deco, t ... * Molenbeek-Saint-Jean Municipal Hall * Saint-Gilles Municipal Hall References Citations Bibliography * External links * {{Belgium-struct-stub Municipal and town halls in Brussels Schaerbeek Protected heritage sites in Brussels Government buildings completed in 1887 Renaissance Revival architec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Gilles Municipal Hall
The Municipal Hall (french: Hôtel communal; nl, Gemeentehuis) of Saint-Gilles is the municipal hall building and the seat of that municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Designed by the architect in neo-Flemish Renaissance style and completed in 1904, it is located at 39, /. This site is served by the '' premetro'' (underground tram) station Horta on lines 3 and 4, as well as the tram stop / (on lines 81 and 97). See also * Anderlecht Municipal Hall * Brussels Town Hall * Forest Municipal Hall * Molenbeek-Saint-Jean Municipal Hall * Schaerbeek Municipal Hall The Municipal Hall (french: Hôtel communal; nl, Gemeentehuis) of Schaerbeek is the municipal hall building and the seat of that municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Designed by the architect in neo-Flemish Renaissance style and completed in ... References Citations Bibliography * Herman Stynen (red.), ''Het huis in het midden. Gemeentehuizen van de Brusselse agglomeratie'', in ''Monografieën Bouwkundig E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean Municipal Hall
The Municipal Hall (french: Hôtel communal; nl, Gemeentehuis) of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean is the town hall, municipal hall building and the seat of that municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Designed by the architect Jean-Baptiste Janssens in an Eclecticism in architecture, eclectic style of Classical architecture, Greco-Roman and Renaissance architecture, Renaissance inspiration and completed in 1889, it is located at 20, /. This site is served by Comte de Flandre/Graaf van Vlaanderen metro station on Brussels Metro line 5, line 5 of the Brussels Metro. History ''Prado'' building In the 19th century, the Municipal Hall of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean was located in a house at 23, /, on the site of the current Bonnevie Park. As the population grew, the municipal authorities started looking for a larger building. After a failed plan from 1847 by the architect , which involved relocating the Municipal Hall to the /, on the /, it was decided to move the premises to the former ''Prado'' theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forest Municipal Hall
The Municipal Hall (french: Hôtel communal, nl, Gemeentehuis) of Forest is the municipal hall building and the seat of that municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Built between 1935 and 1938, and qualified as a prototype of Brussels' Art Deco, this building illustrates the leading role the style played in public architecture during the interwar period. History Inception and construction In the aftermath of World War I, the municipal authorities of Forest wanted to build a municipal hall representative of its status as a flourishing suburb of Brussels. It was originally planned to build it on the site of the current Royale Union Saint-Gilloise Stadium in the Duden Park district but, after much discussion, it was decided to erect it instead on the grounds of the previous Municipal Hall, a neoclassical building dating from 1828, and in the place of a previous parsonage from 1734. The current Municipal Hall was designed by the architect in 1925, and the municipal council approve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels Town Hall
The Town Hall (french: Hôtel de Ville, Dutch: ) of the City of Brussels is a landmark building and the seat of the City of Brussels municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It is located on the south side of the famous Grand-Place/Grote Markt (Brussels' main square), opposite the neo-Gothic ''King's House'' or ''Bread House'', nl, Broodhuis, link=no building, housing the Brussels City Museum. Erected between 1401 and 1455, the Town Hall is the only remaining medieval building of the Grand-Place and is considered a masterpiece of civil Gothic architecture and more particularly of Brabantine Gothic. Its three classicist rear wings date from the 18th century. Since 1998, is also listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as part of the square. This site is served by the '' premetro'' (underground tram) station Bourse/Beurs (on lines 3 and 4), as well as the bus stop / (on line 95). History Gothic Town Hall The Town Hall (french: Hôtel de Ville, link=no, nl, Stadhuis, link= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels Metro
The Brussels Metro (french: Métro de Bruxelles, nl, Brusselse metro) is a rapid transit system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It consists of four conventional metro lines and three ''premetro'' lines. The metro-grade lines are M1, M2, M5, and M6 with some shared sections, covering a total of , with 59 metro-only stations. The ''premetro'' network consists of three tram lines (T3, T4, and T7) that partly travel over underground sections that were intended to be eventually converted into metro lines. Underground stations in the ''premetro'' network use the same design as metro stations. A few short underground tramway sections exist, so there is a total of of underground metro and tram network. There are a total of 69 metro and ''premetro'' stations as of 2011. Most of the common section of the first two metro lines (between De Brouckère metro station and Schuman station) was inaugurated on 17 December 1969 as ''premetro'' tramways, conver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anderlecht
Anderlecht (, ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and Saint-Gilles, as well as the Flemish municipalities of Dilbeek and Sint-Pieters-Leeuw. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch). There are several historically and architecturally distinct districts within Anderlecht. , the municipality had a population of around 120,887. The total area is , which gives a population density of . Its upper area is greener and less densely populated. History Origins and medieval times The first traces of human activity on the right bank of the Senne date from the Stone Age and Bronze Age. The remnants of a Roman villa and of a Frankish necropolis were also found on the territory of Anderlecht. The first mention of the name ''Anderlecht'', however, dates only from 1047 under the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels Metro Line 6
nl, Metrolijn 6 , color= , image=Brussels metro Delacroix02.jpg , caption=Train at Delacroix metro station. , operator=Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company , system=Brussels Metro , locale=Brussels , type=Rapid transit , open= , stations=26 , stock=U5 , start=King Baudouin , end=Elisabeth , depot=Jacques Brel , connectinglines= , linelength_km=15.5 , gauge= , electrification=900 V DC (Third rail) Line 6 of the Brussels Metro is a rapid transit line operated by STIB/MIVB, which connects King Baudouin metro station at the north-west of Brussels, Belgium to Simonis metro station at the north-west of the city center, then performing a counterclockwise loop around the center up to Simonis again. During this loop, the line runs under the small ring road of Brussels from Porte de Hal/Hallepoort station to Yser/IJzer metro station. It serves 25 metro stations and has 26 stops, metros on that line stopping twice at Simonis. It exists in its current form since 4 April 2009, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
