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========================================================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L History<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<font size="2">I have been moving at the end of last year from Mortsel
(Antwerp area) to Steenokkerzeel (Brussels area)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">cf. </font><font size="2"><a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/so.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/so.jpg</a> (my
house is not on this card)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I still am handicapped by lack of accessibility to my books
since I still have to set-up the racks before I can umpack. I found some books
on local history in antiquarian shops though.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Steenokkerzeel itself has historically 4 centers:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- <strong>Steenokkerzeel </strong>village</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- <strong>Ter Ham</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- <strong>Wambeek</strong> and</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- <strong>Hummelgem.</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">In the 70s Steenokkerzeel further absorbed the municipalities
of</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- <strong>Melsbroek</strong> and</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- <strong>Perk</strong></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The Western part of Steenokkerzeel and the Southern part of
Melsbroek are turned into airport area. Actually Brussels airport had its main
building originally in <strong>Melsbroek</strong> in the North of the airport,
but left it to the military and contructed the passengers building in the West
in <strong>Zaventem</strong>. The Cargo airport in the NorthWest is in
<strong>Machelen</strong>. All these municipalities are in Vlaanderen, not in
the Brussels capital area.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Main roads crossing Steenokkerzeel are from North to
South the<strong> N227</strong> from Mechelen over Tervuren to
Waterloo</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">and the <strong>N21</strong> linking Haacht in the East with
the Brussels-North railway station area in the West.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The <strong>N227</strong> replaces since 1840 the old
"<strong>Waalsche baan</strong>". Main coach for the upgrade at the time was the
burgomaster of Steenokkerzeel <strong>Louis van Frachen</strong> (cf.
below).</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong></strong> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The <strong>N21</strong> (Haachtse steenweg) is an upgrade of
the former "Oude Brusselsche Baen", originally the "<strong>Keulsche
Baen</strong>". Traffic from Brussels to the East was in the beginning
of the 19th century drained to the <strong>N2</strong> to Leuven, a few
miles South of the N21, and since the seventies to the <strong>E40
</strong>motorway to Liege, a few 100m further South.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The <strong>N227</strong> is very popular as escape
route during rush hours for the Eastern part of the Brussels Ring Motorway
and the E19 to Antwerp. My house is on the old N227, <strong>van
Frachenlaan</strong>, adjacent to the new N227 (new little ringway since a
couple of years, between the church and the airport fence), intended to relief
the center of Steenokkerzeel from the intensive traffic. </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">My house is not only close to the insersection of the N227 and
the N21 (about 300m), but also close (300m) to the intersection of runways
<strong>25R</strong> and <strong>20</strong> of Brussels airport.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>Namegiving of runways</strong> is standardized: it is
the degrees in the direction on flies divided by 10. If there are parallel
runways, R stands for Right and L stans for Left.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">All runways have a double numbering, depending of the
direction of use.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Brussels has:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">25R = 07L</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">25L = 07R</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">20 = 02</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">(there are 180 degrees difference between 250 and 70 and
between 200 and 20)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Since most of the time we have wind from the west,
the 25L is mostly used for landing of passenger planes, while the
<strong>25R</strong> is mostly used for take-offs of all planes and for landings
of cargo and military (since the cargo and military airports are at the
North). Most noise over here is when there is wind coming from the East and they
take off in the other direction <strong>07L</strong> or 07R.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The place I live is marked as "<strong>Het Cleyn
Molenvelt</strong>" on old maps, and is part of "<strong>Wambeek</strong>".
Wambeek was created as a formal municipality by the French in the year III of
the Revolution, but it was absorbed by Steenokkerzeel in the year VIII (1799).
Wambeek was a place of veneration of the <strong>Saint Pharaildis</strong>
("Sint Veerle maagd" in more modern Dutch), daughter of "<em>Theodoricus
Witgerus, een machtigh Prince van Loreynen</em>". She is represented with a
bustard (trapgans in Dutch) under her arm. </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The miracle of the bustard as told by
Rosweydus:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><em>En onder andere wordt daer verhaelt, hoe dat sy nu out
synde, in den winter op haren acker met terwe besaeyt eene groote kudde
trapganzen gevonden heeft, de welcke sy als tamme ghedierten met haren stock
t'huyswaert gedreven ende in eenen stal opgesloten heeft, niet toelatende datmen
eenigen van die dooden soude.</em></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><em>Maer soo (ter wijle sy ter kercke was ghegaen) jemandt
daar eene af gedoodt ende met syne medghesellen ghegeten hadde, ende als sy des
andere daeghs willende die voghels vry laten wech gaen, gewaer wierdt dat daer
eenen gebrach, heeft van een kindt verstaen wat daer af gedaen
was.</em></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><em>Siet een wonder werck: sy heeft de beenderen ende pluymen
die daer af te vinden waren, doen vergaderen, ende den voorseyden voghel is
gheheel ende levende gheworden ende sy heeft dien met de andere na syne
ghewoonlijcke weyden laten gaen.</em></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">(she revived an eaten bustard from its
remnants)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>Steen</strong>okkerzeel originally formed together
with <strong>Neder</strong>okkerzeel (now part of Kampenhout) a larger area
<strong>Ochinsala</strong>.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">It was given by "Pepin of Herstal", together with "Ham", to
the abbey of Sint Truiden in the 8th century.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">1076 Hocensele</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">1147 Hockenzela</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Etymology: </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>Sala</strong>: Franconian for place</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>Ochin</strong>: different explanations in
litterature:</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- Diminutive of <strong>Hukkon</strong>, Hugo
(Carnoy)</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">- <strong>Hokko</strong>, an abreviation of <strong>Hueger,
Hugbald</strong> (De Vries).</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><strong>Steen</strong>: most probably referring to a
stronghold or fortress.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The area between Steenokkerzeel-center and Wambeek, a
bit South of my house, has recently completely been depleted of buildings
(except for the old graveyard). It is reportedly done for having a "fall" area
in front of runway 25R. We have much police interventions for chasing plane
spotters from the graves, especially on sunny Sundays as today (yesterday we had
record temperatures of 16.8 celsius for a 9th of February).</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The roof on the castle on the top part of <a href="http://www.euro-support.be/temp/so.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.euro-support.be/temp/so.jpg</a>
has also been removed for air traffic safety.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Except from air traffic noise, it is a very quit municipality,
with an Aldi for local food shopping, as most municipalities in this area.
Sunday morning though there is market on the place around the church, with about
80 trailer booths, mostly offering cloting and food. It includes a large stand
with Moroccan food (offered by a company from the Antwerp suburb Borgerhout,
often called Borgerocco).</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Public transportation is OK with a bus to the Brussels airport
passenger terminal every 30 min. (60 min in week-ends), from where there are
railway departures to Brussels every 20 minutes. There is also regular bus
servicing towards Brussels-North railway station, as also to Mechelen, Leuven,
Haacht and Vilvoorde).</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Steenokkerzeel was part of the ban of Brussels in the old
Duchy of Brabant. This Brussels area is actually the real original "Brabant".
When the counts/dukes of Leuven acquired the Brussels territory, they changed
the overall name of their territory into Brabant. </font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Nowadays Steenokkerzeel is part of the Flemish green belt
(<strong>groene gordel)</strong> around Brussels. The French call it
<strong>carcan</strong> (belt in the sense of restriction). It is a hot
political issue since the bilingual territory of Brussels wants to expand, while
from the Flemish side one wants to protect the cultural and linguistic character
of the area.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">When I do my shopping in nearby Kraainem (a Flemish minicipaly
with administrative facilities for French speaking inhabitants) e.g. in the
Brico, no sigle soul can understand me or services me when I speak Dutch. They
apparently find only French speaking personnel over there.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">In Steenokkerzeel itself I hear quite some French speaking at
e.g. the mail office (De Post). French inhabitants are serviced in their
language, a facility Dutch speakers hardly get in Brussels or even not when
shopping in the Flemish municipalities with facilities.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">I don't think French speakers nowadays have something
"against" Dutch. It is more laziness against learning it, since Flemish people
generally are willing to speak French with them. We do not make it easy for them
either: what I hear on the market place is 10 percent French, 20 percent Dutch
and 70 percent Brabantish or strongly Brabantish-colored Dutch.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">The municipality of Steenokkerzeel makes weekly publicity by
distributing leaflets for courses for learning Dutch for non-Dutch
speakers.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">After all it is quite difficult for legislators to turn social
patterns of behaviour.</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Regards,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Roger</font></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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