La Roue, Brussels

La Roue
Neighbourhood
Church of St. Joseph in La Roue/Het Rad
Church of St. Joseph in La Roue/Het Rad
La Roue is located in Brussels
La Roue
La Roue
Location within Brussels
La Roue is located in Belgium
La Roue
La Roue
La Roue (Belgium)
Coordinates: 50°49′22″N 4°17′51″E / 50.82278°N 4.29750°E / 50.82278; 4.29750
CountryBelgium
RegionBrussels-Capital Region
MunicipalityAnderlecht
Construction1907–1928
Named forBreaking wheel
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
1070
Area codes02

La Roue (French, pronounced [la ʁu]) or Het Rad (Dutch, pronounced [ət ˈrɑt]), meaning "The Wheel", is a district of Anderlecht, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Located in the south of Anderlecht, it is one of this municipality's largest districts of and one of Brussels' main garden cities. Built in the 1920s, with its modest and picturesque houses, it offers a great vision of an early 20th-century working class neighbourhood. It is also home to one of the largest agribusiness industry campuses in Belgium: the Food and Chemical Industries Education and Research Center (CERIA/COOVI),[1] as well as popular department stores.

The district is crossed by the last end of the Chaussée de Mons/Bergensesteenweg in Brussels, and is bounded to the east by the Brussels–Charleroi Canal and to the south by the Flemish municipality of Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, in the Pajottenland. It is served by the metro stations Bizet, La Roue/Het Rad and CERIA/COOVI on line 5.

Sights

  • The Church of St. Joseph, an Art Deco Roman Catholic church built in 1938–39[2]
  • The Food and Chemical Industries Education and Research Center (CERIA/COOVI)[1]
  • The headquarters of Coca-Cola Belgium and Luxembourg, at 1424, Chaussée de Mons/Bergensesteenweg[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "CERIA | Anderlecht". www.anderlecht.be. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Eglise Saint Joseph | Anderlecht". www.anderlecht.be. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Contact" (in French). Retrieved 17 February 2017.