Etterbeek

Etterbeek is one of the 19 common bilingual of Belgium located in the Région of Brussels-Capital.

It is close to the communes of Brussels-city, Ixelles, Auderghem, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert and Schaerbeek.

History

The name of Etterbeek (Ietrebecca) appears for the first time in 1127. It would draw its origin from the root Celtique " Ett" (rapid) and of the Dutch " Beek" , which means " ruisseau". Eleven years later, in 1138, current orthography " Etterbeek" appears for the first time.

will have then to be awaited 1673 so that the Seigneurie, until there depend on the chief-mayeur of Rhodos, is émancipée. The king Charles II of Spain then sets up Etterbeek in Baronnie, which it yields to Don Diego-Henriquez of Castro, general treasurer of the armies of the Netherlands. At the time of the reorganization which will follow the French revolution of 1789, the baronnie will become common within the canton of Woluwe-Saint-Etienne. Etterbeek was the seat of a porcelain factory of 1787 to 1803.

It is under the reign of Léopold II that this rural village was transformed into perish-urban zone then urban, with the realization of main roads like the Avenue of Tervueren and the Army boulevard (today Boulevard Saint-Michel) and of districts like that of the Place of the King-Winner. At that time where one becomes aware of the medical dangers in the urban centres, a whole part of the middle-class of Brussels moves there and with it, of the institutions like the college Jésuite Saint-Michel, inaugurated in 1905.

Cultural places

Arts center Léopold Sédar Senghor (Space senghor)
Arts center Maalbeek
House of young person the Key
House of young person Samarkand
Academy of visual art Constantin Meunier
Academy of visual art Dutch-speaking RHoK-ACADEMY
Academy of music Jean Absil
Library-media library Hergé
Public library Notre-Dame
Library Culture and Leisures
Dutch-speaking Library
Theater Saint-Michel
Theater Yvan Baudouin-Lesly Bunton
the Back of the stage, theater workshop
the Workshop 210, general-purpose theater (theater, music, dance, etc)
Albert hall - Roseland, theater
Workshops of the glass Master Pierre Majerus (stained glasses)
Hap Foundry (bronzes)
the Foundation Rene Carcan (engraving)

Principal green areas with Etterbeek

the Garden Jean-Felix Hap
the park of Fontenay under Wood
the park of the “Paradise of the Children”
park “I.N.G. ”
Park of the City Toy-Rey
the place of the King Vainqueur

In edge of the commune:

the Park of the Fiftieth anniversary
the park Léopold

Some Etterbeekois

Of birth or adoption…

Jan Van Etterbeke mason stone worked about 1455, with the construction of the Town hall of Leuwen, cut the stones intended for the perron and the three turrets of with dimensions of the body of guard and carried out part of the low-reliefs
Constantin Meunier (1831-1905), painter and sculptor
Jean Massart (1865-1925), botanist
Jean Absil (1893-1974), directing type-setter of the Academy of music of Etterbeek
Adrien de Gerlache (1866-1934), navigator, it went celebrate for its forwarding in the Antarctic continent aboard the sailing ship Belgica . He in particular discovered a strait to which one will give his name.
Rivka Cohen (1939), personality related to the culture Sépharade.
Christian Krekels Plastics technician Belgian
Jacques Vandievoet , known as Jacques Oriol , poet
François Weyergans (1941), writer
Jean-Baptiste Baronian (1942), writer
Paul Cauchie architect, painter and decorator
Georges Remi , alias Hergé (1907-1983) author of cartoon (Tintin…)
Andre Franquin (1924-1997) author of cartoon (Gaston Lagaffe, Spirou and Fantasio, Modeste and Pompon…)
Roland Lethem (1942), scenario writer
Alexandre Von Sivers actor
Jean-Luc Fonck , singer Sttellla and humorist
Lara Fabian (1970), singer
Mr R (1975), rappor
Philippe Résimont (1962), actor
Giani Esposito (1930-1974), actor

Twinnings

Etterbeek is twinned with:

Internal bond

Quoted social Toy-Rey
List of the streets of Etterbeek

External bonds

Official site of the commune of Etterbeek
official Blog of the commune of Etterbeek
Official site of the 28 {{E}} unit scout of Etterbeek

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