Rue de la Cigogne

The street of the Stork (in Dutch: Ooievaarstraat ), often called dead end of the Stork , is a Impasse of Brussels-city, located near the Rue Antoine Dansaert. This lane, long of 70 Meter S, is latticed at its end which is Rue of Flanders.

As plunged in a completed past, the passer by can notice that the inhabitants of this dead end settle outside per good weather and discuss with their neighbors district. The entry of the lane is Rue Rampart of the Monks and testifies to last to this place: a porch gone back to 1780 with a surmounted pediment of a Potale containing an anonymous statuette in the honor of Holy Roch, as to entreat the Plague which prevailed in Brussels.

The dead ends and lanes of Brussels also testify to the thickening of the city will intra muros . Currently one of the houses in particular was restored by Chantal and Yves Brasseur, and is intended for their various exposures. This street always escapes nevertheless the Gentrification from the district.

See too

List of the streets of Brussels-city

External bonds

satellite Localization of the street on WikiMapia
Site presenting the street
Photographs representing the lane

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