Tervuren
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Tervuren is a Belgian municipality located in the province of Flemish Brabant in Flanders. The community on the eastern outskirts of Brussels includes the districts of Duisburg, Tervuren, Vossem and Moorsel.
Tervuren had 1 January 2012 a total population of 21,236 inhabitants. With an area of 32.92 km ², the population density in the municipality has 645 inhabitants / km ². The official language of Tervuren is Dutch. Due to the proximity to Brussels and the British School in Tervuren is an international minority has formed, whose members mainly come from the countries of NATO and the European Union.
History
Following the Christian tradition, it is at Tervuren to the Fura -mentioned place in the 727 Saint Hubertus from Liege died. But this is not historically proven. A first historical document from 1213 tells of a wooden fortress, which was built at this place of Henry I, Duke of Brabant. This fort was expanded to the castle of Tervuren, which served the dukes of Brabant in the 14th and 15th century as a residence. In 1782, the castle was destroyed.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the flourishing Tervuren exercised a great attraction for the artists of the era. The Duke of Brabant had his summer residence here. The beautiful surroundings, with a rural character consisting of extensive parks, offered many motives. The Auberge du Renard was a meeting place for artists, partly nierderließen in Tervuren.
By 1959 Tervuren terminus was an electrically operated railway. Situated opposite the Royal Museum for Central Africa station was demolished in 1964. The goods shed has been converted into a pub called Spoorloos station (German: Railway station Loser; Spoor also means " trace ", ie in the sense of vanished ).
Tervuren is today one of the most affluent communities in Belgium. It is about the Tervurenlaan (French: Avenue de Tervuren, today N3) with Brussels. These eleven kilometer doppelbahnige avenue was created by Leopold II on the occasion of the World Exhibition in 1897. It led from the center of Brussels directly to the then Colony palace (later Colonial Museum ), and is still regarded as one of the longest avenues in Europe.
Along the main avenue of the tram line runs 44 of the Brussels transport company ( STIB / STIB ) as a link between the Montgomery metro station and Tervuren. On the beautiful leg run in the summer of historic vehicles Tram Museum Woluwe.
On January 1, 1977, the formerly independent communities Duisburg and Vossem were incorporated to Tervuren.
2003, the Brussels suburb was the scene of chocolates Summit, a security summit in Belgium, Germany, France and Luxembourg.
Coat of arms
Description: Argent, a blue blue reinforced and well gezungter and so crowned lion.
Community structure
The municipality of Tervuren includes four population centers:
- Tervuren with its old town
- Moorsel, always politically belonging to Tervuren
- Duisburg, in the Middle Ages an independent rule, then an independent municipality since 1977 Tervuren
- Vossem, a village in the valley of the river Voer, since 1977 to Tervuren
Culture
Tervuren is particularly known for its Royal Museum for Central Africa ( Koninklijk Museum voor Midden- Africa), which lies immediately to the north of the park of Tervuren. The main exhibition shown since 1957 the museum focuses mostly on the Democratic Republic of Congo, a former Belgian colony. But there are also considered Eastern, Central and Western Africa. The museum has been closed since December 1, 2013 because of the need for a thorough renovation and reopened in mid- 2017 with a new design.
In the center of the village, the Gothic " Sint -Jan Evangelist kerk " is ( German Church of St. John the Evangelist ). It was built in the 13th century. The aisles date from the 14th century. The rood screen was erected in 1517 by the brothers Keldermans. The current entrance, which served as the basis for a newer gate, dates from 1779. In the church the tombs of the three successive Dukes of Brabant Anton von Brabant are († 1415), John IV of Brabant († 1427) and Philip of Saint-Pol († 1430).
Also located in Tervuren library ( Gemeentelijke Public Library Tervuren, GOBT ) with 43 300 books and 886 DVDs. The bulk of the literature (at least 75 %) is in accordance with the legislation of Flanders in Dutch.
Tervuren is surrounded by two large parks. To the east lies the Park van Tervuren, which is traversed by a channel and dominated by several connected lakes. The Sonian Forest is located in the southwest of the city and has a beautiful natural. Many trees and shrubs of the system were introduced by Napoleon Bonaparte from countries which he had conquered.
Noteworthy is the arboretum Tervuren, where 100 hectares in 40 geographically structured Lot 460 important tree species in the northern temperate zones and the Andean grow. The Arboretum is adjacent to the park of Tervuren.
Twinning
Since 2003, a twinning with the German community Lehnin in Brandenburg.