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The first walls of Brussels (French: première enceinte, Dutch: eerste stadsomwalling) were a series of fortifications erected around Brussels in the early 13th century. The city quickly outgrew them, and starting in 1356, a second, larger set of walls was built to better enclose and defend the city.
In this Central Quarter (French: Quartier du Centre, Dutch: Centrumwijk), there are some vestiges of the 13th-century first walls of Brussels, which encompassed the area between the first port on the Senne, the old Romanesque church (later replaced by the Brabantine Gothic Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula), [3] and the former ducal ...
The city gate was originally known as the New Gate of Coudenberg (Dutch: Nieuwe Coudenbergse Poort), to distinguish it from the old gate located in the first walls, and it used to connect the Rue Entre deux Portes / Twee Poortenstraat (current Rue de Namur / Naamsestraat) to the Chemin d'Ixelles / Elsenseweg (current Chaussée d'Ixelles / Elsensesteenweg).
The Black Tower (French: Tour Noire; Dutch: Zwarte Toren) is a medieval tower in central Brussels, Belgium. It is one of the best preserved remains of the first fortifications of Brussels, built at the start of the 13th century. It is notable for being a single medieval tower surrounded by modern-day buildings.
These mentions of outside the walls are part of the elements that have led certain historians to consider the construction of Brussels' first city walls as having preceded the generally accepted period at the beginning of the 13th century. The Chapel Church, c. 1612, as drawn by Remigio Cantagallina.
A single tower of the first city wall can be seen across the canal at the Pottenmakersstraat. Brussels: Brussels-Capital Region One or more individual structures (Bastions, gates, towers, etc.) remain. Of the first city wall, built in the 13th century, a small stretch of curtain wall and several isolated towers still remain.
1150 – St. Peter's Hospital [nl; fr] is established as a leper colony, run by a community of lay brothers and sisters, outside the city's walls. [13] 1152 – St. Nicholas' Church [nl; fr] is first attested. [12] 1174 – The Grand-Place/Grote Markt is first attested as the Forum inferior or Nedermerckt. [14]
The Brabantine Gothic Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula remains a prominent feature in the skyline of downtown Brussels. Isolated portions of the first city walls were saved from destruction and can be seen to this day. One of the only remains of the second walls is the Halle Gate.