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 | |
|---|---|
 La Cambre Abbey in Ixelles. | |
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  Ixelles Location in Belgium
Ixelles municipality in the Brussels Caipital Region  | |
| Coordinates: 50°50′N 04°22′E / 50.833°N 4.367°ECoordinates: 50°50′N 04°22′E / 50.833°N 4.367°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)[1] | |
| • Total | 86,244 |
| • Density | 13,000/km2 (35,000/sq mi) |
| Postal codes | 1050 |
| Area codes | 02 |
| Website | www.elsene.be |
Geografie eedit
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 eedit
| Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Ixelles. |
References eedit
- ↑ Population per municipality as of 1 January 2017 (XLS; 397 KB)
Freemit airtins eedit
- Offeecial steid o Elsene / Ixelles municipality (anerlie in French or Dutch)