Uccle / Ukkel

Uccle Ukkel
Uccle Ukkel
State :	Belgium
Region :	Brussels capital
Province :	("de-provincialized" since January 1st, 1995)
District :	Brussels capital
Coordinates :	50 ° 49 ′  N , 4 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′  N , 4 ° 21 ′  E
Area :	22.91 km²
Residents:	83,024 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density:	3,624 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	1180
Prefix:	02
Mayor:	Boris Dilliès ( MR )
Local government address :	Place Jean Vander Elst 29 1180 Uccle Jean Vander Elstplein 29 1180 Ukkel
Website:	www.uccle.be www.ukkel.be

Uccle [ykl] ( French ) or Ukkel [ykəl] ( Dutch ) is one of 19 municipalities in the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium . It has 83,024 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) on 22.9 square kilometers.

Uccle / Ukkel is located in the south of the city and borders on the Brussels sub-municipalities Forest / Vorst , Ixelles / Elsene , Brussels and Watermael-Boitsfort / Watermaal-Bosvoorde, as well as the Flemish facility communities Sint-Genesius-Rode , Linkebeek and Drogenbos . Uccle / Ukkel is the largest municipality in the capital region after the city of Brussels.

The municipality has a share in the southern urban forest, the Sonienwald , the residential areas adjacent to it are among the most prestigious in the Belgian capital. Many wealthy personalities own their villas here on huge, partly park-like properties. Well-known institutions in Uccle / Ukkel include the Royal Observatory , the Royal Meteorological Institute as well as the University of Liège and the Collège Saint-Pierre , a school founded in 1905.

Uccle / Ukkel has five suburban railway stations of the National Company of Belgian Railways and is served by tram lines 3, 23, 52, 55, 90, 91 and 92.

The Russian Orthodox Memorial Church of St. Job in Uccle / Ukkel

politics

Uccle / Ukkel is governed by a coalition of the liberal Mouvement Réformateur , which won an absolute majority in local elections in both 2006 and 2012, the humanists from the Center Démocrate Humaniste and the francophone regionalists from the Démocrate Fédéraliste Indépendant . The long-time mayor of this coalition, former Senate President Armand De Decker , resigned on June 17, 2017. He is accused of corruption, clientele politics and presumption of office in the Kazakhgate affair surrounding the Kazakh businessman Patokh Chodiev .

Boris Dilliès (MR) has been the new mayor since 2017, while the first deputy and acting mayor Marc Cools has since made his own list because he was not taken into account.

Sports

Main stand of the stadium "De Ganzenvijver / Stade du Vivier d'Oie"

In the district of Diesdelle, which is considered to be the richest district in Belgium (2015), is the Ganzenvijver / Vivier d'Oie stadium , which is one of the oldest stadiums in Belgium and the first football stadium on mainland Europe with a concrete grandstand that still exists and is a listed building. Racing Club de Bruxelles had its most successful years in the stadium and was Belgian football champion six times between 1897 and 1908 . The club later moved to the Dreilindenstadion.

The Ganzenvijver / Vivier d'Oie stadium also hosted the first ever continental European international match. On May 1, 1904, the national teams of Belgium and France faced each other, the game ended 3: 3. After the game, the club secretary from Racing Club Louis Muhlinghaus agreed with his French colleagues to found FIFA , which took place three weeks later in Paris and at which he was elected the first general secretary.

Personalities

• Ovide Decroly (1871–1932), Belgian reform pedagogue who ran a school in Uccle / Ukkel and died there in 1932
• Leopold Fleischhacker (1882–1946), the German sculptor and emigrant, last lived in Uccle / Ukkel, where he died in 1946.

Sons and daughters of the church

• Louis "Luigi" Marie Van Hege (1889–1975), football player and bobsledder
• Nele van de Velde (1897–1965), painter, draftsman and wood cutter
• John Cluysenaar (1899–1986), sculptor and painter
• Pierre Harmel (1911–2009), politician, professor of rights at the University of Liège , Prime Minister of Belgium 1965–1966
• Rudolf Cranz (1918–1941), German ski racer
• Jacques Tits (* 1930), mathematician
• Francis Bertrand (1937–1994), comic book artist
• Erik Pevernagie (* 1939), painter, lives in Uccle / Ukkel
• Sybille de Sélys Longchamps (* 1941), Belgian noblewoman, mistress of the Belgian King Albert II
• Salvatore Adamo (* 1943), honorary citizen since June 2, 2010
• Willy Braillard (* 1946), entrepreneur and racing car driver
• Guy R. Cornelis (* 1946), microbiologist
• Paul De Grauwe (* 1946), Professor of International Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Patricia Radelet-de Grave (* 1948), science historian
• Ronald Guttman (born 1952), actor
• Pierre Van Dormael (1952–2008), guitarist of pop and jazz music
• Michel Neugarten (* 1955), automobile racing driver
• Jean-Marie Wampers (* 1959), racing cyclist
• Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant (* 1960), businessman and sports official
• Bernard Clerfayt (* 1961), politician
• Delphine Boël (* 1968), Belgian artist and an illegitimate daughter of the former King Albert II
• Axel Merckx (* 1972), racing cyclist
• Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz (* 1973), Queen of Belgium, wife of King Philippe of Belgium
• Laurent Pasquali (* 1975), French racing car driver
• Damien Jalet (* 1976), dancer and choreographer
• Marie Kremer (* 1982), actress
• Kenny Dehaes (* 1984), racing cyclist
• Vincent Kompany (* 1986), football player
• Maxime Martin (* 1986), racing car driver
• Maxime de Zeeuw (* 1987), basketball player
• Dedryck Boyata (born 1990), football player
• Arthur De Greef (born 1992), tennis player
• Cynthia Bolingo Mbongo (* 1993), track and field athlete
• Claire Orcel (born 1997), track and field athlete

Web links

Commons : Uccle / Ukkel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality of Uccle / Ukkel ( French , Dutch )
• Royal Meteorological Institute

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. Bes: Uccle: Armand De Decker démissionne de son poste de bourgmestre . In: La Libre Belgique , June 17, 2017
2. ↑ Filip van der Elst, Maarten Verdoodt: Ganzenvijver Ukkel . Bruzz No. 1580 on August 25, 2017, pages 24-25