Style: | Brussels Metro |
Address: | French: Avenue Houba De Strooper|italic=no / Dutch; Flemish: Houba De Strooperlaan|italic=no 1020 Laeken, City of Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium |
Structure: | Underground |
Platform: | 1 island platform |
Tracks: | 2 |
Owned: | STIB/MIVB |
Houba-Brugmann is a Brussels Metro station on the northern branch of line 6. It is located under the French: Avenue Houba De Strooper|italic=no/Dutch; Flemish: Houba De Strooperlaan|italic=no, near Brugmann University Hospital, in Laeken, in the north-west of the City of Brussels, Belgium. The station is jointly named after the city official Louis Houba and the 19th-century philanthropist Georges Brugmann.
The metro station opened on 5 July 1985 as part of the Bockstael–Heysel/Heizel extension of former line 1A, including the stations Stuyvenbergh and French: Heysel|italic=no/Dutch; Flemish: Heizel|italic=no. Then, following the reorganisation of the Brussels Metro on 4 April 2009, it is served by line 6.[1]