Place Anneessens

The place Anneessens and the 7 streets which radiate some were arranged in 1639 on the pre one with the Fullers delimited by the street of Anderlecht, the Senne and the Small Seine.

Until the creation of the central boulevards, it accommodated the old market which inconvenienced the residents by “its pouillery and its chips”. After its transfer, the March 15th 1873, with the Place of the Play of Ball, the public garden was called “àven with met”, that is to say former gone old man.

In 1889, one it gratifie of the name of François Anneessens (1660 - 1719), senior of the trade of the Four Crowned, decapitated in 1719 to have defended communal freedoms against the Austrian government. A statue of Thomas Vinçotte (1889) recalls the memory of it.

The bottom of the place is dominated by the sumptuous buildings of the old elementary school n°13, occupied today by the Institut Lucien Cooremans and the high school Francisco Ferrer. To duplicate the over-populated school of the Street of the Vulture, the City calls upon a burning defender of the style Flemish néo-rebirth, Charles-Emile Janlet.

See too

List of the streets of Brussels-city

External bonds

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