Ottignies-Leuwen-the-new

Ottignies-Leuwen-the-New (in Walloon Ocgniye-Li Noû Lovén ) is a French-speaking city of Belgium, located in the Province of the Walloon Brabant.

The commune of Ottignies-Leuwen-the-New gathers the entities of Ottignies, of Leuwen-the-New, Limelette and Céroux-Mousty.
Le name of Ottignies would come from a Germanic colonist of the Carolingian time, Otton, which would have obtained grounds in the area.

Administration

Burgomasters

The communal college

The College is composed of the burgomaster and six aldermen:

- Jean-Luc Roland, burgomaster (Ecologist)

General affairs, sustainable development, personnel, police force, mobility, roadway systems, green areas, inheritance, dispute.

- Cédric of the Heap, 1st alderman (ICH)

Town and country planning, town planning, land control, economic affairs, trade, middle-classes, businesses rural. - Jacques Benthuys, 2nd alderman (PS)

Teaching, buildings, energy, safety and health, twinnings, North-South co-operation, human rights, secularity, protocol. - Cecile Lecharlier, 3rd alderman (Ecologist)

Environment, housing, family, elder, early childhood, health, reception of the people of foreign origin.

- David da Câmara Gums, 4th alderman (Ecologist)

Culture, budget, finances, employment, data processing. - Benoit Jacob, 5th alderman (ICH)

Citizenship, information, participation, youth, festivals, tourism, worships.

- Annie Galban, 6th alderman (PS)

Patriotic civil statue, population, associations, sports.

- Jeanne-Marie Oleffe, presidency of CPAS (ICH)

Industrial relations policy.

The new legislation provides that the president of the CPAS is from now on member of the College with whole share.

The College meets each week - in theory, Thursday afternoon - in the buildings of the municipal authorities.

Communal secretary

The current communal secretary is Thierry Corvilain.

Town council

The Town council meets last Tuesday of the month, with 20:15, in the Room of the Town council of the Town hall. He brings together the 29 communal Advisers.

29 communal Advisers of Ottignies-Leuwen-the-New

(to be supplemented)

Municipal authorities

2 Space of the Heart of Ville
1340 Ottignies
Telephone: +32 10 437811
Fax: +32 10 437803
By Internet

Culture

the folklore with Ottignies-Leuwen-the-New

The giants, the regional dances, the steps belong to the folklore of Ottignies-Leuwen-the-New.

Several giants still make appearances with Ottignies-Leuwen-the-New, at the time of the festivals of district and other local fairs:

- Fine of Céroux (district of Céroux)

- Jean-Joseph and Charlotte, workmen of the brickyards of the district Good Air

- Mélie del Cwé (which Symbolist the district of the Cross)

- the wolf Ysengrin (Limelette, district of Buston)

- the First-aid worker (giant of the local section of the Red Cross)

- Tave, the dancer of the folk group the Screws Tchapias

- François the Zouave of Limelette

- Djean of the Heathers, known as Gold Glove (representing a player of Ball Winds into a ball)

- Baden Powell (représeantant the movements scouts and guides of the commune)

Others assemble the guard close to the sites which saw them being born:

- Zande, the round of leather, in the arts center of Ottignies

- OJ the giant of Sports complex of Blocry (Leuwen-the-New)

folk Groups

A folk group, the Screws Tchapias, perpetuates the regional dances in costume 1900.

It is with Ottignies-Leuwen-the-New that a Walk out of completely original star is organized and with the torches:

The evening of 3rd Saturday of September, the inhabitants of all the districts of the city leave in procession in direction the center Ottignies, in the light of the torches and accompanied by the local brass bands. The meeting of the various processions is very spectacular. The evening ends in a large fireworks.

Lastly, the student's folklore holds a very broad place in the life neo-louvanist.

Geography

Surface: 3.397 ha

Altitude: from 50 to 150 meters

Cours d' water: Dyle and its affluents, Stimont, Ry Pinchart, Ry Angon, Faintness, the White-Ry.

Situation

Northern latitude: 50°40' - Longitude is: 4°30'

Communes bordering: Chaumont-Gistoux, Short-St-Etienne, Genappe, Lasne, Mount-St-Guibert, Rixensart, Wavre

Ottignies overlaps the valley of the Dyle, in the middle of the the Ardennes brabançonnes.

Population

The city counted at December 31st, 2006 30.179 domiciled people.

Distribution:

- Ottignies 9.549

- Céroux-Mousty 4.760

- Limelette 5.462

- Leuwen-the-New 10.408

124 different nationalities

Transport

Roads

The commune is served by the roads and highways and is connected to

Brussels and Namur by the Highway of the Ardennes (E411 - A4) (left 8a and 9).
Brussels, Wavre, Gembloux and Namur by N4.
Bubbles by N25.
Wavre by N238.

Railroads

The Gare of Ottignies is one of the most important stations of Wallonia. It is the crossroads between the lines leading to Brussels (line 161), with Namur (line 162), with Charleroi and Leuwen.

To a lesser extent, a small junction made essential by the extension of the Université makes it possible to join Leuwen-the-New.

A project of the RER around Brussels would still allow the thickening of the connections ferroviares towards the capital and in the commune.

History

One said city which it is the " botroul" (dialectal term for " nombril" ) of the province of the Walloon Brabant.

It is true by its central position on an important rail junction from the point of view of travellers transport and goods. It is true also by its situation near a highway axis connecting Brussels to Strasbourg via Luxembourg, the three “capitals” of Europe in the course of formation. It is still true by the presence on its territory of an old catholic university of world famous.

The city seems to exist since the Carolingian time when certain Otton, colonist-soldier of origin franque, obtained in reward its services a vast domain overlapping the Dyle river. In 1190, is the place called Othenies (in reference to Otton?), then Ottignies seven years later. In 1213, the parish exists and is dedicated to St-Remi. A statement of 1260 announces: a castle, a market (already called the old market), a mill, a brewery and a frank tavern.

Another version of the etymology of the place evokes the Germanic substantive “der Otter”, the otter. It is on the basis of this second etymological version that the communal authorities used besides, during the First World War, of the armorial bearings representing a blue otter on money bottom.

the locality is still sometimes called Ok (G) nor (dialectal contraction going back to the XVIième century) by old Ottintois.

A long time dependant on a closed rural economy, the village developed as from 1850 with the opening of a paved roadway and the construction of the railroad. Many factories made their appearance in the valley. They attracted an important labor which settled near the stations. The social landscape of our commune was deeply upset by it. To the farmers were added the workmen, the railwaymen and, later, the navetteurs often established in the new social or residential districts. Without forgetting the arrival of the students to Leuwen-the-New after 1971.

For reasons of Community political quarrels between Flemings and Walloons, oldest of the Belgian universities, founded in 1425 in Leuwen (Flemish Leuven) in Flemish territory, was divided into two sections linguistics in the years 1960: the KUL (Katholiek Universiteit Leuven), Dutch-speaking, was going to remain in Leuven, while the UCL (Catholic University of Leuwen), French-speaking person, was going to be installed in Ottignies, on the plate of Lauzelle, baptized Leuwen-the-New. It is on July 14th, 1966 that the Town council of Ottignies, chaired by Yves of the Heap (burgomaster of 1959 to 1988), decided to answer favorably at the request of transfer of the UCL on the territory of the commune. The first academic re-entry on the site of Leuwen-the-New proceeded on October 20th, 1972.

In 1977, the old communes of Limelette and Céroux-Mousty amalgamate with Ottignies, and the term Leuwen-the-New is then acollé with that of ottignies, commune pilot of fusion, to become the entity of Ottignies-Leuwen-the-New, which is also seen decreed the title of city.

Tourism

tourist sites of ottignies:

- Castle of Ottignies (XVI) (does not visit itself)

- Church Saint-Remy cheese: remarkable furniture

- Firm of Douaire (XVIII)

tourist sites of Leuwen-the-New:

- Large Aula

- University Markets - visit on request with 010.47.89.35 (Service of the Foreign relations of the University)

- Very many open contemporary art disseminated through the site

- The Museum of Leuwen-the-New

- The Hergé museum (in construction, opening in 2009)

- The Lake and the equestrian farm

- Golf of 18 holes (63 ha)

- The Wood of Lauzelle: 200 ha, circuits of walks (including for less valid), ponds and wetlands, didactic zones.)

tourist sites of Céroux-Mousty:

- Very beautiful town square bordered of limes.

- Turn of Moriensart (does not visit itself): keep whose certain elements go back to the 13th century, bordering a farm in typical quadrilateral of the Walloon Brabant.

- House of Hergé (street Hergé - does not visit itself).

- Workshop of the ceramist Xavier Dumont, street Vanderdilft (visit on request)

- Romance Church and crypt, remarkable furniture.

- Provincial Field of the Wood of the Dreams

tourist sites of Limelette:

- The Saint-Gery Church contains the lying ones out of stone.

- The Wood of Buston

Twinnings

Personalities

the painter Paul Delvaux (1897-1994) represented several times the trains of the Gare of Ottignies which he attended much being child. The Royal Athenaeum Paul Delvaux, one of the most important secondary schools of the commune and the Avenue Paul Delvaux pays homage to him. Several reproductions of its tables are posted in Gare of Leuwen-the-New-University.
Hergé (1907-1983), the creator of Tintin, remained with Céroux. The street where its house was famous Rue Hergé.

Bibliography and notes

Bonds

Internal bonds

External bonds

Official site of the city
Union of the Cities and Communes of Wallonia

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