Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
	Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
	Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Walloon Brabant
District :	Nivelles
Coordinates :	50 ° 40 ′ N , 4 ° 34 ′ E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ N , 4 ° 34 ′ E
Area :	32.96 km²
Residents:	31,443 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density:	954 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	1340 (Ottignies) ; 1341 (Céroux-Mousty) ; 1342 (Limelette) ; 1348 (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Prefix:	010
Mayor:	Julie Chantry ( Ecolo )
; Local government address :	Administration communale ; Avenue des combattants, 35 ; 1340 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
Website:	www.olln.be

Ottignies Town Hall

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve ( Walloon Ocgniye-Li Noû Lovén ) is a university town in the French-speaking province of Walloon Brabant in Belgium .

overview

The city consists of four districts : Ottignies , Limelette , Céroux-Mousty and Louvain-la-Neuve . Limelette and Céroux-Mousty were independent until 1977 and were incorporated as part of a territorial reform that reduced the number of Belgian municipalities from 2,359 to 596.

Louvain-la-Neuve was in the early 1970s to have been largely undeveloped area of the former town Ottignies for the Université catholique de Louvain built (UCL) after following the Flemish-Walloon conflict that split in the Catholic University of Leuven in the Dutch-speaking Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) in Leuven (ndl. Leuven , French Louvain ) and the French-speaking UCL had become legally binding.

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve is located in the center of the Walloon Brabant province, around 10 kilometers southwest of its capital, Wavre . The urban area is drained by the Dyle and some tributaries. The city has an expressway connection to the provincial capital Wavre. There are also rail connections to Brussels , Namur , Wavre- Löwen and Charleroi . A connection to the RER Brussels is planned .

The Benedictine monastery of Saint-André de Clerlande has existed outside the city since 1970 .

politics

Municipal council

The local council ( Conseil Communal ) has 29 members, from which the college is formed with the mayor and six aldermen ( Echevins ).

mayor

The mayor, Jean-Luc Roland, one of the founders of the Ecolo party , is one of the first green mayors in Belgium. He has been in office since 2001. In the local elections on October 8, 2006, he was confirmed for a second term.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve is a quartered shield. The four fields were chosen so that all four districts can feel represented. The first field in gold is divided by a blue ribbon (de Spangen family) and stands for Ottignies and Mousty. The second shows the coat of arms of the Colopma family in blue with a golden band accompanied by two silver doves divided diagonally with eight thousand on the golden edge and stands for Céroux. The third in blue shows a gold cross and four gold shells; it is the coat of arms of Anne-Josèphe de la Croix, Abbess of Florival 1733–1749, and was in the wall of a farm in the area of today's Louvain-la-Neuve. The fourth in gold shows three red taps for lime. The city arms were adopted on December 18, 1991.

Town twinning

Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve has partnered with three cities : Jassans-Riottier in France , Veszprém in Hungary and Tiassalé in the Ivory Coast . There are also friendship agreements with Masaya in Nicaragua and Drăgăneşti in Romania .

Web links

Commons : Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ J.-P. Bastin, H. Fassi-Fihri, V. Matz, M. Prévot, V. Salvi: Ma commune , Luc Pire 2006, ISBN 2-87415-613-2 .
↑ J.-L. Roland: Un bourgmestre vert à Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve , Luc Pire, ISBN 2-87415-614-0 .