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| Anderlecht |
Population : (1 January 2013) 111,279
Location: Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium.
Area: 17.74 km2(6.85 sq mi)
Anderlecht is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital
Region. There are several historically and architecturally distinct districts
within the Anderlecht
municipality. The first traces of human activity on the
right bank of the Senne date from the Stone Age and Bronze Age. The remnants of
a Roman villa and of a Frankish necropolis were also found on the territory of
Anderlecht. The first mention of the name Anderlecht, however, dates only from
1047 under the forms Anrelech, then Andrelet (1111), Andreler (1148), and
Anderlech (1186). At that time, this community was already home to a chapter of
canons and to two feudal manors, those of the powerful lords of Aa and of
Anderlecht.
In 1356, Louis of Male, Count of Flanders
fought against Brussels on the territory of Anderlecht, in the so-called Battle
of Scheut, supposedly over a monetary matter. Although he defeated his
sister-in-law, Joanna, Duchess of Brabant, and briefly took her title, she
regained it the following year with the help of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
In 1393, Joanna’s charter made Anderlecht a part of Brussels. It is also around
this time that the church of Saint Guido was rebuilt above the earlier
Romanesque crypt in the Brabant Gothic style.
Street
View of Anderlecht
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