Ronse

Ronse
	Ronse
	Ronse
State :	Belgium
Region :	Flanders
Province :	East Flanders
District :	Oudenaarde
Coordinates :	50 ° 45 ′ N , 3 ° 36 ′ E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ N , 3 ° 36 ′ E
Area :	34.48 km²
Residents:	26,479 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density:	768 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	9600
Prefix:	055
Mayor:	Luc Dupont ( CD&V )
; Local government address :	Grote Markt 12 ; 9600 Ronse
Website:	www.ronse.be

Ronse ( French Renaix ) is a Flemish city in the southwest of the province of East Flanders in Belgium with 26,479 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) and an area of 34.5 km². Ronse is a facility community .

Attractions

Museum with the Hermes Church in the background

Individual sights

St. Hermes Church
Park de l'Arbre de Malander with sundial and panoramic view of Ronse
Folklore museum
Textile museum
St. Martinus Tower
town hall
Statue of the Bonmos
Peetje en Meetje , a pseudo dolmen
Villi wall and the musical statue of Ephrem Delmotte
Sundial at the library
numerous Art Deco houses
The Carpentier villa
The music forest
Renewed marketplace

railway station

Entrance building of Bruges train station around 1840 (on 't Zand ) - today in Ronse

The reception building of the station Ronse is the building of the first station Bruges that here translocated was. During the construction of the building, however, the sides were reversed so that the former track side became the street side of the station.

sons and daughters of the town

Cipriano de Rore (1515 / 16–1565), Flemish composer, madrigalist
Louis Ferdinand de Mondet (1748–1819), Austrian general
Ovide Decroly (1871–1932), doctor and reform pedagogue
Valère Depauw (1912-1994), writer
José Ruysschaert (1914–1993), librarian
Etienne Verschueren (1928–1995), jazz musician and film composer
Roland Cardon (1929–2001), musician (composer, music teacher and conductor)
Tony Bauwens (1936–2009), jazz musician
Pierre Carteus (1943–2003), football player
Thierry De Cordier (* 1954), graphic artist and painter
Rudy Demotte (* 1963), politician
Serge Plume (* 1967), jazz musician
Stéphanie von Luxemburg (* 1984), Belgian countess and wife of the Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxemburg
Thomas Degand (* 1986), racing cyclist