Ixelles

Ixelles (French, pronounced [ikˈsɛl]) or Elsene (Dutch, pronoonced [ˈɛlsənə] ( listen)) is ane o the nineteen municipalities locatit in the Brussels-Caipital Region o Belgium.

Ixelles Ixelles  (French) Elsene  (Dutch)
Municipality
La Cambre Abbey in Ixelles.
Banner Coat airms
Ixelles Location in Belgium Ixelles municipality in the Brussels Caipital Region
Coordinates: 50°50′N 04°22′E
Kintra	Belgium
Community	Flemish Community French Community
Region	Brussels
Arrondissement	Brussels
Govrenment
• Mayor	Willy Decourty (PS)
• Govrenin pairty/ies	MR, LB
Area
• Total	6.41 km2 (2.47 sq mi)
Population  (1 January 2017)
• Total	86,244
• Density	13,000/km2 (35,000/sq mi)
Postal codes	1050
Area codes	02
Website	www.elsene.be

Geografie

Ixelles or Elsene is locatit in the sooth o Brussels an is dividit intae twa pairts bi Avenue Louise, which is pairt o the Ceety o Brussels municipality. The smawer wast pairt o the municipality includes Rue du Bailli/Baljuwstraat an extends roughly frae Avenue Louise tae Avenue Brugmann/Brugmannlaan.

The lairger east pairt o the municipality includes the steids o the Université Libre de Bruxelles an the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, an the Eugène Flagey square. The Bois de la Cambre is locatit juist sooth o Ixelles.

The construction o Avenue Louise wis commissioned in 1847 as a monumental avenue bordered bi chestnut trees that wad allou easy access tae the popular recreational aurie o the Bois de la Cambre. It wis an aa tae be the first Haussmann-esque airtery o the ceety o Brussels. Housomeivver, fierce resistance tae the project wis put up bi the toun o Ixelles (which wis then still separate frae Brussels) through whose land the avenue wis supposed tae run. Efter years o fruitless negotiations, Brussels feenally annexed the narrae baund o land needited for the avenue plus the Bois de la Cambre itsel in 1864. That decision accoonts for the unuisual shape o the day's Ceety o Brussels an for Ixelles being split in twa separate pairts.

See an aw

• Ixelles Cemetery
• Municipalities o the Brussels

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial steid o Elsene / Ixelles municipality (anerlie in French or Dutch)