Brussels Park

The Warandepark or Royal Park of Brussels called (in English Brussels Park, ndl. Park van Brussel, de Warande or Royal Park, Parc de Bruxelles French or Parc Royal), with 13 ha of the largest and also the most important urban park Belgian capital Brussels.

Genesis

Historically, the current park of green remnant of a formerly the Ducal castle Koudenberg belonging urban wildlife garden, as it were a feudal hunting amusement of the Dukes of Brabant. This medieval hunting pleasure gardens were called in the southern and northern Netherlands " Warande ". It can still be found in many cities of Flanders and the Netherlands courts or district, and bearing its name. The Duke of Brabant held in this deer park deer, wild boar and the like. Directly on the castle but there was also a small ornamental garden.

This idyll, however, should suddenly come to an end, as in the night of 3 to February 4, 1731, the castle on the Koudenberg almost completely burned down and then never was rebuilt. Also the adjacent park was pulled through the fire affected. Due to lack of funds should be based on the ruinous state of the area in the next 40 years to change anything.

Only in 1775 was proposed under Empress Maria Theresa, to begin at the expense of the city of Brussels with the creation of a new park. After tough negotiations, it was agreed in 1776 that the City of Brussels leveling the land for the new park and will the three neighboring streets, namely the Rue Royale, the Brabantstraat (now rue de la Loi ) and the Hertogstraat invest. The government wanted to take over the installation of the actual park. A total of 1218 trees had to be felled in the sequence in order to make room for the planned ground leveling, because the parking area was originally much hillier than it is today is the visitor. But soon after completion, it was during the French Revolution to the first destruction, as sans-culottes, the Roman emperor busts fell from their pedestals. During the Belgian Revolution then bivouacked Dutch troops in the park.

The last complete overhaul learned the park in 2001, but again with a few trees had to be felled.

Today's state

On the edge of the rectangular landscaped parks are among other important buildings such as the south of the Royal Palace and the Palace of the Academies, opposite to the north, Parliament, in the East, the U.S. Embassy and in the west other institutions of banking and government system. The park is bounded to the west by the Rue Royale / Rue Royale, to the north by the Rue de la Loi / Rue de la Loi, the east by the Hertogstraat / Rue Ducale and on the south by the palaces space. At the corner of Rue Royale and Rue de la Loi is the metro station Park and southwest of the park, on the corner of Rue Royale / palaces court, one comes across the existing since 2002 Bozar, a very popular arts and events center.

Inside there parks located in the northeastern corner of the Royal Park theater. Further concerts are held in the open air during the summer months in Warandepark regularly.

The park is in the summer season, that is, open from April 1 to September 30, from 6 bis 22 clock clock. During the winter half of the year, from 1 October to 31 March, the park opens in the morning, however, until an hour later, at 7 clock. In the evening the park closes but then it also an hour earlier, by 21 clock.