| Namefr: | Woluwe-Saint-Pierre |
| Namenl: | Sint-Pieters-Woluwe |
| Picture-Legend: | Woluwe Saint-Pierre's Municipal Hall |
| Map: | Woluwe-Saint-Pierre Brussels-Capital Belgium Map.svg |
| Map-Legend: | Woluwe-Saint-Pierre municipality in the Brussels-Capital Region |
| Arms: | Greater Coat of arms Woluwe-Saint-Pierre.svg |
| Flag: | Flag of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe.svg |
| Flag Link: | Symbols of Brussels#Municipalities |
| Arms Link: | Symbols of Brussels#Municipalities |
| Community: | |
| Arrondissement: | Brussels-Capital |
| Nis: | 21019 |
| Mayor: | Benoît Cerexhe (LB) |
| Majority: | LB, Ecolo-Groen, DéFI |
| Postal-Codes: | 1150 |
| Telephone-Area: | 02 |
| Web: | www.woluwe1150.be |
| Coordinates: | 50.8333°N 32°W |
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (in French pronounced as /wolywe sɛ̃ pjɛʁ/) or Sint-Pieters-Woluwe (in Dutch; Flemish pronounced as /sɪnt ˈpitərs ˈʋoːlyu.ə/) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the eastern part of the region, it is bordered by Etterbeek, Auderghem and Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, as well as the Flemish municipalities of Kraainem and Tervuren. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch).
, the municipality had a population of 42,216 inhabitants.[1] The total area is 8.94km2, which gives a population density of 4722PD/km2. It is mostly a well-to-do residential area, which includes the wide, park-lined, Avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan, and the numerous embassies located near Marshal Montgomery Square. Of the three streams that once crossed the municipality, only the Woluwe, a tributary of the Senne, can still largely be seen today.
The first appearance of the name Wolewe dates from 1117 and can be found in a charter from Forest. At that time, the original hamlet and its farms were dependencies of the Park Abbey near Leuven. The onset of difficulties can be traced to the middle of the 16th century, with the hostilities waged by Philip II of Spain against the heretical Protestants and the ensuing poverty and famine took their toll on the entire population. Safety and prosperity returned under the reigns of Archdukes Albert VII and Isabella at the beginning of the 17th century. The first grand alley linking Tervuren to Brussels, then known as the "Street of the Duke", dates from that period.
The French Revolution was also a troubled period for Woluwe-Saint-Pierre. The roads became insecure, the religious freedoms were drastically curtailed, much of the local wild life was exterminated for food, and the lack of coal and wood forced people to use peat for heating. The local administration gained its independence from Brussels, obtained its first mayor on 26 May and its first municipal council in 1819. The commercial opportunities that opened up to the new municipality marked the start of a new era of wealth. The municipality did not expand very quickly, however, until the last two decades of the 19th century. New roads, such as the Avenue de Tervueren/Tervurenlaan, a new train track, imposing mansions, such as the Stoclet Palace, and Woluwe Park, were all built or designed between 1880 and 1910. An important race track, now demolished, was built in 1906. The residential areas came into being right after the First World War and further urbanisation took place after the Second World War. Nowadays, agriculture and fisheries, common before 1918, have completely disappeared. The area now depends nearly exclusively on the service sector of the economy.
See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Belgium.
Woluwe-Saint-Pierre is twinned with:
Ruyumba, Rwanda
Gangnam-gu (Seoul), South Korea
New Iberia, Louisiana, USA
Chaoyang, China
Chennai, India