Saint-Jose-ten-Noode

See also: Saint-Jose

Saint-Jose-ten-Noode (in Dutch Sint-Joost-ten-Node ), generally called Saint-Jose very short, is one of the 19 common bilingual of Belgium located in the Région of Brussels-Capital.

It is bordering on the communes of Brussels-city and Schaerbeek, and belonged to the Zone of police force 5344 with Evere and Schaerbeek.

Demography

The commune counted 23.142 inhabitants (11 837 men and 11.305 women) at January 1st 2005. It covers a surface of 1,12 km ² (it smallest of the 19 communes, but densément is also densément populated).

Immigrant commune more of Belgium

Source of the data of the table: National institute of Statistics, figures at January 1st.

At one time, it was the only commune of Belgium whose population was mainly foreign, mainly of Turkish and Moroccan origin. Currently, the electorate of foreign origin became majority by the means of acquisitions of nationality and the majority of the communal advisers, as well as half of the college échevinal, is originating in the Morocco, Turkey and the Congo (DRC). Jean Demannez, burgomaster: “ the population of Saint-Jose is Belgian to 64%. But that does not want to say large-thing. The Belgian indentity card does not imply however that people did not preserve the specific lifestyle and traditions to their country of origin. In Saint-Jose, there is no more that 20% of the population whose grandfather was Belgian. For 8 fellow-citizens out of ten, the grandfather was an immigrant: French, Italian, Turkish or Morrocan, Spanish, etc It is thus an excessively important cultural mixing, with, which more is, a young population ” (interview of the 11/24/2003).

The poorest commune of Belgium?

Tax statistics of the incomes, 2000: “ In terms of incomes per capita, if Laethem-Saint-Martin remains the richest commune of the country, Saint-Jose-ten-Noode remains good last ” (INS)

Jean Demannez, burgomaster: “ it is necessary to relativize: if the average revenue of the inhabitants is of 227.000 Bef per annum, it is due amongst other things to this strong proportion less than twenty-five years, of which much does not have incomes yet. Moreover, many families with much of children are not submitted to the tax. It is important to say: Saint-Jose is not the poorest commune of the country, as opposed to what one could convey like information ” (interview of the 11/24/2003).

History

Until the end of the 19th century, Saint-Jose extended to the borders from Ixelles and Etterbeek, and included in particular the major part of the current European district of Brussels, the Schuman roundabout, the Fiftieth anniversary and the Place of Luxembourg. It was forced to sell these grounds at the Town of Brussels to be able to refund debts contracted following a not very judicious management of communal finances.

Famous men

  • Fernand Faniard, Fernand Smeets better known under Fernand Faniard (born in the December 9th 1894 with Saint-Jose deceased with Paris 1955) is famous a Chanteur of the Opéra of Paris.
  • Emile Fourcault, inventor of a manufactoring process of flat glass.
  • Adolphe Quetelet, inventor of statistical calculation.
  • Charles Van der Stappen, sculptor
  • Emile-Georges De Meyst, realizer, born on April 11th, 1902 in Saint-Jose (deceased in December 1989)
  • Jaco Van Dormael, realizer, author of Louse the hero (born in Ixelles, it resides at Saint-Jose)
  • Antoine Courtens, architect (1899 - 1969)
  • Franz Courtens (of her true name Franciscus Eduardus Maria Courtens), painter, born with Termonde on February 4th, 1854 and deceased with Saint-Jose-ten-Noode on January 2nd, 1943.
  • Hermann Courtens, painter, born in Saint-Jose-ten-Noode in 1884 and deceased in Ixelles in 1884
  • Jacques Courtens, painter, born in Saint-Jose-ten-Noode on April 24th, 1926, died in Fatty, the Alpes-Maritimes, France, on September 23rd, 1988
  • Gustave Cohen, historian, medievist in the Sorbonne and Amsterdam, born in Saint-Jose-ten-Noode on December 24th, 1879 and deceased in Paris on June 11th, 1958.

Political life

Of 1953 with 1999, the burgomaster of Saint-Jose is the socialist Guy Cudell, with the head of various coalitions, the last (1994) with PSC and SP (Jules Spooren, single elected official on the list of Flemish trust RAINED).

It is its first alderman, also PS, Jean Demannez, who succeeds to him after his death in May 1999. It is renewed with the head of a List of the burgomaster (PS, SP, PRL) in October 2000. Saint-Jose is one of the rare communes of Brussels (with Koekelberg) where FDF and the PRL were not presented on a joint list in 2000, the FDF having remained in the opposition with 2 seats out of 27.

At the end of December 2005 four communal agents whose échevine of public Cleanliness Nezahat Namli, elected on the List of the burgomaster under quota MR-PRL, decide to sit from now on as independent because of dissensions which oppose them to the local leader of the MR., the alderman Geoffroy Clerckx.

List burgomasters of Saint-Jose

Sources: Van Bemmel, History of Saint Jose Ten Noode and Schaerbeek (1869), and other sources not published available to the Library of the Commune.

Twinning

Internal bonds

  • List of the streets of Saint-Jose-ten-Noode
  • FC Saint-Jose
  • Use of foreign workers (Belgium)

External bonds

  • Official site of the commune
  • Saint-Jose on the site of [[Area of Brussels-Capital]] the
  • Site of the zone of police force 5344 (Evere - Saint-Jose - Schaerbeek)

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