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This is a French-speaking Belgian branch of the Red Cross. This subsidiary organization of the Belgian Red Cross is also like Rode Kruis-Vlaanderens as it is a connected member of the International Red Cross and the Red Crescent Movement.
The first mention of Schaerbeek's name was Scarenbecca, recorded in a document from the Bishop of Cambrai in 1120. [3] The origin of the name may come from the Franconian words schaer ("notch", "score") and beek ("creek", "beck"). [4] Schaerbeek is nicknamed "the city of donkeys" (French: la cité des ânes, Dutch: de ezelsgemeente).
Schaerbeek railway station (French: Gare de Schaerbeek) or Schaarbeek railway station (Dutch: Station Schaarbeek) [a] is a railway station in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium, opened in 1887. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB).
[4] [5] In 2014, local authorities introduced a measure to restrict street prostitution to an area around the Boulevard d'Anvers / Antwerpselaan but the measure was unsuccessful and prostitutes continued to work in the small streets around the Rue De Laeken / Lakensestraat. [4]
The Rue Victor Hugo / Victor Hugostraat in Schaerbeek, Brussels. The Rue Victor Hugo (French, pronounced [ʁy viktɔʁ yɡo]) or Victor Hugostraat is a street in the Schaerbeek municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It is named after the French writer Victor Hugo, who spent his exile of 1851 to 1870 in Brussels.
The Halles de Schaerbeek or Hallen van Schaarbeek is a cultural centre in Brussels, Belgium. It is located at 22, rue Royale Sainte-Marie / Koninklijke Sinte-Mariastraat in Schaerbeek , in the former Sainte-Marie covered market, built in 1865 and destroyed by a fire in 1898.
The North–South connection (French: Jonction Nord-Midi; Dutch: Noord-Zuidverbinding) is a railway link of national and international importance through central Brussels, Belgium, that connects the major railway stations in the city. It is line 0 (zero) of the Belgian rail network.
On 15 June it was joined with the two French départements of Nord and Pas-de-Calais (included on the grounds that part of this territory belonged to Germanic Flanders, as well as the fact that the entire region formed an integral economic unit [5]) as the Military Administration in Belgium and North France (Militärverwaltung in Belgien und ...