Ganshoren

Ganshoren
Ganshoren
State :	Belgium
Region :	Brussels capital
Province :	("de-provincialized" since January 1st, 1995)
District :	Brussels capital
Coordinates :	50 ° 52 ′  N , 4 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′  N , 4 ° 19 ′  E
Area :	2.46 km²
Residents:	24,902 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density:	10,123 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	1083
Prefix:	02
Mayor:	Pierre Kompany ( CDH )
Local government address :	Maison communale de Ganshoren Avenue Charles Quint, 140 1083 Bruxelles Gemeentehuis van Ganshoren Keizer Karellaan, 140 1083 Brussels
Website:	www.ganshoren.be

Ganshoren is one of 19 municipalities in the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium . It has 24,902 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) on 2.5 square kilometers.

Ganshoren is located in the north-west of the city as a whole and borders the municipalities of Jette , Koekelberg and Berchem-Sainte-Agathe / Sint-Agatha-Berchem in the Brussels-Capital Region and the Flemish municipality of Asse .

The small municipal area is almost completely built on, larger green areas are the Rivieren Castle Park and the King Baldwin Park in the far north of the municipality.

The castle of Rivieren, the swamps of Ganshoren and above all the national basilica of the Sacred Heart on the Koekelberg , which lies on the municipality border with Koekelberg, are worth seeing . The avenue Charles-Quint / Keizer Karellaan , named after Emperor Charles V , is an important arterial road and a motorway feeder in the direction of Ghent, the city of his birth .

politics

In the local elections in 2012, Michèle Carthé ( Parti Socialiste , PS), in office since 2001, was replaced by Hervé Gillard from the liberal Mouvement Réformateur (MR) party . He died in office on January 18, 2017. He had already left the office three months earlier due to illness and transferred the management to the non-party Jean-Paul Van Laethem.

In January 2017, Robert Genard, also from the MR, was elected as the new mayor, who continues the coalition with the PS. In the opposition there is a joint list of independents and the Christian Democrats ( CDV and cdH ). This “Pro Ganshoren” list also includes Pierre Kompany, father of the Belgian national player Vincent Kompany . Robert Genard has announced that he will run for the local elections in 2018 in a joint list of MR-Pro Ganshoren.

sons and daughters of the town

• Pol Demeuter (1904–1934), motorcycle racer

Web links

Commons : Ganshoren  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality of Ganshoren (French, Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bruzz online January 22, 2017
2. ↑ http://www.bruzz.be/nl/actua/ganshoren-nieuwe-burgemeester-en-politieke-stoelendans