Ixelles

Ixelles (in Dutch Elsene ) is one of the 19 common bilingual of Belgium located in the Région of Brussels-Capital. She is considered, with Saint-Gilles, like the common inhabitant of Brussels of the students, the artists and the intellectuals.

Beginning 2005, it counted approximately 78.000 inhabitants (Ixellois). Located in the south-east of Brussels, in the first belt of communes surrounding the common of Brussels itself, its surface is of 6,34 km ².

Districts

Ixelles gathers very different districts. One can quote:

district of the door of Namur and the Golden Fleece, district very tradesman who can be to regard as the second center of Brussels, large signs and luxury trades
Matongué district, which are characterized in particular by the presence of an important black community originating in the Democratic republic of Congo, old Belgian colony . By reference at popular quarters of the commune of Kalamu (Kinshasa), the district where this community finds itself (around the Porte of Namur) is known of all the Inhabitants of Brussels under the name of Matongé (to pronounce “ngué Mato'”). This district evolves however to a greater multiculturality, with a marked presence of the Asian, Indian and Pakistani community.
Saint-Boniface district: district " trendy" and connected restaurants and bars.
Flagey district: very beautiful quarters including the ponds of Ixelles, the old house of the radio transform in very dynamic and connected arts center, the school of Camber architecture. Multicultural district: Morrocans, Portuguese, French.
district Fernand Cock: around the place of the same name, popular quarters with tendency " bobo".
district Lord of the manor - baillif: residential district select, craft industries, bookstores, grocers bio, restaurants smart…
Latin Quarter: district of the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles. Environment coed, many bars.

The commune is only area not to be not only one holding, the Avenue Louise, left Brussels-city, dividing it into two.

It is bordering on the communes of Brussels-city, Etterbeek, Forest, Auderghem, Uccle, Saint-Gilles and Watermael-Boitsfort.

Remarkable sites

the site of the Abbaye of Cambers and its very famous 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of visual arts;
the ponds of Ixelles;
old the House of the radio of style Art Déco;
Of many buildings Art nouveau of which several of the architect Victor Horta.
the Scottish church - St Andrew' S Church
Place Fernand Cocq
District of Small Switzerland

The commune also shelters the two principal campuses of the Universit3e libre de Bruxelles (ULB) as well as the campus of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), which makes district of the Cimetière of Ixelles one the most attended of by the students.

Famous characters

Giacomo Puccini, 1858.1920, lived with the n° 1,avenue de la Couronne, a commemorative plaque is visible there

Barbara (1930 - 1997): singer, she Marie with Ixelles and sings one of her songs in a house of Ixelles. Its most known song is perhaps the black eagle .
Charles-Auguste de Bériot (1802 - 1870), Type-setter and violonist. It made build for its mistress, Malibran, a private mansion which is used from now on as communal house.
the general Boulanger there is committed suicide and is buried with the Cimetière of Ixelles
Elyane Célis was born there
Ernest Claes, writer Flemish is deceased there.
Marc Danval was born there and there saw.
Michel de Ghelderode, dramatic author, born in Ixelles in 1898 and deceased with Schaerbeek in 1962
Anne Duguël (or Gudule ), écrivaine, born in Ixelles in 1945.
Marc Dutroux, criminal, born in Ixelles in 1956.
Jacques Feyder was born there the July 21st 1885.
Jean-Luc Fonck, artist, lived Ixelles of many years.
Fernand Gravey, actor born in Ixelles, known for its roles of child for the scenario writer Alfred Machin and of man married in the round (1950) of max Ophüls.
Audrey Hepburn (1919 - 1993): born in Ixelles and lived a few years there. She played in My Fair Lady .
Fernand Khnopff (1858 - 1921): Master of Belgian painting Symbolist.
Lénine (1870 - 1924): Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov spent a few months to Ixelles.
Malibran (1808 - 1836), professional singer lived there with her lover, Charles-Auguste de Bériot, which built a private mansion to him which is used from now on as communal house.
Karl Marx (1818 - 1883): philosopher, it lived two years with Ixelles with his wife, his daughters and his son.
Christophe Miossec, French singer who lived several years with Ixelles.
Jean-Baptiste Moens (1833 - 1908): one of the first Belgian merchants of stamps, it lived Ixelles at the end of its life, was one of the communal advisers before dying there in 1908.
Amélie Nothomb (1967 -): auteure of novels, it lived a long time in Ixelles. Among his works, one finds Sabotage in love , Péplum , Stupeur and tremors or Hygiène of the assassin where the place Flagey is used to indicate the name of the disease of the male main character.
Pierre Rapsat (1948 - 2002): Singer born in Ixelles. He sang Judy&Cie , Adeu , the dreams are in us , Dazibao .
Réginald, actor of Cinéma Belgian was born there in 1881
Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917): Sculptor, it lived in several places of Ixelles. One as of its works is the thinker .
Stanislas-Andre Steeman (1908 - 1970): author of detective novels, it lived in Ixelles.
Agnes Varda (1928): scenario writer born in Ixelles
Stephan Steeman (1933 -): Humoriste and wire of Stanislas-Andre Steeman.
Emile Vandervelde (1866 - 1938), politician.
Jaco Van Dormael (1957 -): born with Ixelles, realizer of Louse the hero , the eighth day .
Antoine Wiertz (1806 - 1865), painter and sculptor, had his vast workshop with Ixelles, since then reconverted in museum dedicated to its work.
Marc Michetz (1951): draftsman of cartoons born in Ixelles.

Burgomasters of Ixelles

1830 - 1830: Henri-Joseph Van Elewyck
1830 - 1830: Charles Vander Heyden
1830 - 1836: Hippolyte Legrand
1836 - 1846: Guillaume Gilbert
1846 - 1854: Charles Vanderstraeten
1855 - 1857: Pierre Kerckx (1803-1881)
1858 - 1861: Charles Vanderstraeten
1861 - 1870: Albert-Joseph Hap
1870 - 1872: Victor Greyson
1872 - 1880: Louis Macau (1818-1900)
1880 - 1888: Raymond Blyckaerts (1834-1901)
1888 - 1895: Englebert-Albert Leemans (1837-1909)
1895 - 1901: Raymond Blyckaerts
1901 - 1903: Adolphe de Vergnies
1904 - 1918: Emile Duray (- +1918)
1918 - 1921: Fernand Cocq (1861-1840)
1921 - 1929: Adolphe Buyl (1862-1932)
1929 - 1935: Armand Huysmans (1872-1935)
1935 - 1956: Eugene Flagey (1877-1956)
1956 - 1973: Charles Janssens (1898-1982)
1973 - 1993: Albert Demuyter (1925 -)
1993 - 2000: Yves de Jonghe d' Ardoye d' Erp (1953 -)
Since 2001: Willy Decourty (1945 -)

Cultural places

communal Musée of the Art schools
Musée Constantin Meunier
Flagey
Théâtre Varied
“the L”
“the Valve”
Marni
Théâtre of the Golden Fleece
Petit Theater Mercelis
Théâtre of the Great South

Twinnings

, birthplace of Naïm Khader

See too

List of the streets of Ixelles
Use of foreign workers (Belgium)

External bonds

Official site of the commune of Ixelles

Site of photographs of the events Ixellois

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