La Roue | |
Settlement Type: | Neighbourhood |
Pushpin Map: | Belgium Brussels#Belgium |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within Brussels |
Coordinates: | 50.8228°N 4.2975°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Belgium |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Brussels-Capital Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Anderlecht |
Established Title: | Construction |
Established Date: | 1907–1928 |
Named For: | Breaking wheel |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 1070 |
Area Code: | 02 |
Area Code Type: | Area codes |
French: La Roue|italic=no (French) or Dutch; Flemish: Het Rad|italic=no (Dutch), meaning "The Wheel", is a district of Anderlecht, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium. Located in the south of Anderlecht, it is one of this municipality's largest districts of and one of Brussels' main garden cities. Built in the 1920s, with its modest and picturesque houses, it offers a great vision of an early 20th-century working class neighbourhood. It is also home to one of the largest agribusiness industry campuses in Belgium: the Food and Chemical Industries Education and Research Center (CERIA/COOVI),[1] as well as popular department stores.
The district is crossed by the last end of the French: Chaussée de Mons|italic=no/Dutch; Flemish: Bergensesteenweg|italic=no in Brussels, and is bounded to the east by the Brussels–Charleroi Canal and to the south by the Flemish municipality of Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, in the Pajottenland. It is served by the metro stations Bizet, La Roue/Het Rad and CERIA/COOVI on line 5.