Victor Pierre Horta was a Belgian architect and designer, and one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement. He was a fervent admirer of the French architectural theorist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc and his Hôtel Tassel in Brussels (1892–93), often considered the first Art Nouveau house, is based on the work of Viollet-le-Duc. The curving stylized vegetal forms that Horta used in turn influenced many others, including the French architect Hector Guimard, who used it in the first Art Nouveau apartment building he designed in Paris and in the entrances he designed for the Paris Metro. He is also considered a precursor of modern architecture for his open floor plans and his innovative use of iron, steel and glass.
The Brussels Metro is a rapid transit system serving a large part of the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It consists of four conventional metro lines and three premetro lines. The metro-grade lines are M1, M2, M5, and M6 with some shared sections, covering a total of 39.9 kilometres (24.8 mi), with 59 metro-only stations. The premetro network consists of three tram lines that partly travel over underground sections that were intended to be eventually converted into metro lines. Underground stations in the premetro network use the same design as metro stations. A few short underground tramway sections exist, so there is a total of 52.0 kilometres (32.3 mi) of underground metro and tram network. There are a total of 69 metro and premetro stations as of 2011.
De Brouckère is a rapid transit station located beneath the Place de Brouckère/De Brouckèreplein in central Brussels, Belgium. It consists of both a metro station and a premetro station.
Parc (French) or Park (Dutch) is a Brussels Metro station located beneath Brussels Park in central Brussels, Belgium. It has one entrance, at the intersection of the Rue Royale/Koningsstraat and the Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat, two of the main roads of the City of Brussels.
Arts-Loi (French) or Kunst-Wet (Dutch) is a Brussels Metro station. It is located in the City of Brussels, Belgium, under the intersection of the Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat and the Avenue des Arts/Kunstlaan, the latter street being part of the Small Ring.
Sainte-Catherine (French) or Sint-Katelijne (Dutch) is a Brussels Metro station. It is located at the Place Sainte-Catherine/Sint-Katelijneplein, between the Quai aux Briques/Baksteenkaai and the Quai au Bois à Brûler/Brandhoutkaai, in the municipality of the City of Brussels, Belgium. It is also situated near Saint Catherine's Church, which gives the station its name.
Stuyvenbergh is a Brussels Metro station on line 6. It opened on 5 July 1985 and is located under the intersection of the Avenue Houba De Strooper/Houba De Strooperlaan, the Avenue Émile Bockstael/Émile Bockstaellaan and the Avenue De Smet De Naeyer/De Smet De Naeyerlaan, in Laeken, in the north-west of the City of Brussels, Belgium. The underground station is named after the Castle of Stuyvenberg, located east of the station in Laeken Park.
Montgomery is an underground station on the Brussels Metro, the first station on the eastern branch of line 1, in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. The station also serves a number of tram lines and buses: Brussels tram routes 7 and 25 pass through, and 39 and 44 terminate there, while tram route 81 and a number of buses stop at surface level.
Porte de Hal or Hallepoort (Dutch) is a rapid transit station in Brussels, Belgium, consisting of both a metro station and a premetro station. The metro station opened on 2 October 1988 and the premetro station opened on 3 December 1993.
Hôtel des Monnaies (French) or Munthof (Dutch) is a Brussels Metro station on the southern segment of lines 2 and 6. It is located under the Small Ring, near Saint Peter's Hospital, in the municipality of Saint-Gilles, south of the City of Brussels, Belgium. One of its entrances is on the Rue de l'Hôtel des Monnaies/Munthofstraat, after which it is named, and where Belgian currency used to be minted.
Louise (French) or Louiza (Dutch) is a Brussels Metro station on the southern segment of lines 2 and 6. It opened on 19 August 1985 and is located under the Small Ring at the Place Louise/Louizaplein, at the end of Avenue Louise/Louizalaan, in the municipality of the City of Brussels, Belgium.
Porte de Namur or Naamsepoort (Dutch) is a Brussels Metro station on the southern segment of lines 2 and 6. It is located under the Small Ring and next to the Chaussée d'Ixelles/Elsense Steenweg, in the municipality of Ixelles, south of the City of Brussels, Belgium.
The Greater Ring or Intermediate Ring in Brussels, Belgium is a set of roads in the shape of a ring, intermediate between the Small Ring and the main Brussels Ring motorway. The greater part of this set of roads is numbered R21 and is about 30 km long, compared to 8 km for the Small Ring and 80 km for the main Ring.
The tram route 4 in Brussels, Belgium, is a tram route operated by STIB/MIVB, which connects the Stalle Parking stop in the southern municipality of Uccle to Brussels-North railway station in the municipality of Schaerbeek. It was created on 2 July 2007 as a new route between Esplanade and Stalle Parking, via the North–South Axis. It is since then one of the only two tram routes with line 3 to service the North–South Axis. On 31 August 2009, the route was shortened with a new terminus at Brussels-North, while line 3 was expanded between Brussels-North and Esplanade.
Line 2 on the Brussels Metro is a rapid transit line in Brussels, Belgium operated by STIB/MIVB. It exists in its current form since April 4, 2009, when the section between Delacroix metro station and Gare de l'Ouest/Weststation was opened, which allowed to close the loop from and to Simonis/Elisabeth. The configuration of the Simonis/Elisabeth metro station though does not allow trains on the line 2 to be able to perform the loop several consecutive times in the same direction, i.e. a train running clockwise from Elisabeth will have to run counterclockwise from Simonis. The two termini of line 2 have thus received different names: originally Simonis (Elisabeth) and Simonis , changed in November 2013 to Elisabeth and Simonis. Between the Yser/IJzer metro station and the Porte de Hal/Hallepoort station, the line runs under the small ring road of Brussels, which is itself built on the former Second walls of Brussels.
The Chaussée de Charleroi or Charleroisesteenweg (Dutch) is a major street in Brussels, Belgium, running through the municipalities of Saint-Gilles and the City of Brussels. It connects the Place Stéphanie/Stefanieplein in the City of Brussels to the Ma Campagne crossroad in Saint-Gilles. It forms the N261 road with the Avenue Brugmann/Brugmannlaan, the Rue de Stalle/Stallestraat and the Rue Prolongée de Stalle/Verlengde Stallestraat. It is named after the city of Charleroi (Wallonia).
Brugmann is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Events in the year 1900 in Belgium.
Georges Edmond Brugmann (1829–1900) was a Belgian financier and philanthropist.
