La Roue (French) or Het Rad (Dutch), 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.
La Roue
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 Church of St. Joseph in La Roue/Het Rad | |
  La Roue Location within Brussels   La Roue La Roue (Belgium) | |
| Coordinates: 50°49′22″N 4°17′51″E / 50.82278°N 4.29750°E | |
| Country | Belgium |
| Region | Brussels-Capital Region |
| Municipality | Anderlecht |
| Construction | 1907–1928 |
| Named for | Breaking wheel |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 1070 |
| Area codes | 02 |
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
edit- 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]
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View along the canal in La Roue.
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b "CERIA | Anderlecht". www.anderlecht.be. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ "Eglise Saint Joseph | Anderlecht". www.anderlecht.be. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ "Contact" (in French). Retrieved 17 February 2017.
External links
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Media related to La Roue/Het Rad at Wikimedia Commons- La Roue — quartier historique, a unique document about La Roue/Het Rad by Florent Van Hoey, November 1984 (in French) (PDF)
