La venelle de l'Alchimiste (en néerlandais: Alchemiststeeg) est une venelle bruxelloise de la section de Neder-Over-Heembeek dans la commune de Bruxelles qui va de la rue léon Daumerie au chemin vert. Cette venelle date du début des années 2000. Elle devait à l'origine porter un nom beaucoup plus long, mais fut modifié sous la pression des futurs riverains.
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Neder-Over-Heembeek is a former municipality of Brussels, Belgium, that was merged into the City of Brussels in 1921. Nowadays, it is a northern section of that municipality, and a predominantly industrial zone, especially known for the Queen Astrid Military Hospital, which is the National Burns and Poisons Centre.
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The Military Ordinariate of Belgium is a Latin Church military ordinariate of the Catholic Church in Belgium. Immediately exempt to the Holy See, it provides pastoral care to Catholics serving in the Belgian Armed Forces and their families.
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The Buda Bridge is a vertical-lift movable bridge that crosses the Brussels–Scheldt Maritime Canal. It was inaugurated in 1955 and replaced a 1934 bridge destroyed during World War II. The structure stands 43 metres tall and allows the roadway to be raised to a height of 33 metres in order to facilitate the passage of vessels navigating the canal.
The bridge takes its name from an old farm in the area, itself named in honor of the victory the Austrian army achieved over the Ottoman army at Buda, the present-day western part of Budapest, Hungary.
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Haren-South railway station is a railway station on line 36 of the Belgian railway network. It is situated in Haren, part of the City of Brussels in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. The train services are operated by the National Railway Company of Belgium.
Also in Haren, despite its name 200 metres to the south-east along Oude Middelweg, is Haren railway station, on line 26.
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Haren] ; sometimes written Haeren in French) is a former municipality of Brussels, Belgium, that was merged into the City of Brussels in 1921. It is an outlying part of the municipality and is situated at the north-eastern edge of the Brussels-Capital Region, bordering Machelen outside the boundary. Haren's postal code is 1130.
In contrast to most of Brussels, Haren has maintained nearly as many Dutch-speakers as French-speakers and has preserved a somewhat rural appearance.
Elle porte son nom en l'honneur de Jean-Baptiste Van Helmont, alchimiste célèbre ayant vécu à Neder-Heembeek. C'est la première venelle de la ville de Bruxelles.