Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve ( French pronunciation: [ɔtiɲi luvɛ̃ la nœv] ; Walloon : Ocgniye-Li Noû Lovén ) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant . On January 1, 2006, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve had a total population of 29,521. The total area is 32.96 km which gives a population density of 896 inhabitants per km.
11-588: The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities : Ottignies, Louvain-la-Neuve , Céroux-Mousty, and Limelette. Louvain-la-Neuve (sometimes abbreviated as "LLN") is a new town developed from 1968 in order to provide a home for the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), the French-speaking part of the former Catholic University of Louvain on its separation from the Dutch-speaking part, which remained in
22-627: Is a subdivision of a municipality in Belgium and, until March 2014, in the Netherlands as well. Each municipality in Belgium that existed as a separate entity on 1 January 1961 but no longer existed as such after 1 January 1977 as the result of a merger is considered a section or deelgemeente within most municipalities. In addition, the City of Brussels is also divided in four sections that correspond to
33-427: Is the name used for urban or municipality districts in some of the larger municipalities of the Netherlands . Amsterdam calls 7 of its 8 deelgemeenten stadsdeel . They form a level of government, both executive ( stadsdeelwethouders ) and legislative ( Stadsdeelraad , a council elected by the inhabitants), and can therefore be regarded as boroughs or wards . Until 2010, Amsterdam had 15 deelgemeenten, but
44-565: Is the term ancienne commune (former municipality), which has no official existence. A section or deelgemeente does not bear any administrative powers. However, the Belgian Constitution provides the possibility of implementing districts for any municipality with at least 100,000 inhabitants, giving de facto political and administrative jurisdiction to the sections. Only the municipality of Antwerp has implemented nine districts , Belgium's lowest level of administration. In
55-607: The deelgemeentevoorzitter , their own aldermen, deelgemeentewethouders , and their own elected assembly, the deelgemeenteraad . Deelgemeenten were abolished in March 2014, after the 2014 municipal elections . Since 2014, districts of Amsterdam have a bestuurscommissie (literally "governance commission"), and the deelgemeenten of Rotterdam are now called gebieden (literally "areas"). Stadsdeel A stadsdeel ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈstɑtsdeːl] ; pl. stadsdelen ; lit. ' city part ' )
66-509: The Netherlands, deelgemeenten were administrative divisions that could be instituted by any municipality. The city of Amsterdam was the first to do this. In the early 1980s, the municipality was divided into fifteen deelgemeenten. This amount was decreased to eight in 2010. Seven of these were officially called stadsdeel . Rotterdam followed in the 1990s and was divided into fourteen deelgemeenten . Deelgemeenten had their own mayor,
77-544: The ancient city of Louvain ( Leuven ). Created in 1971, Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park is the first of its kind in Belgium and is the biggest one in Wallonia (the French-speaking part of Belgium ). It covers 231 hectares (570 acres) spread over the area of the town of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve and the municipality of Mont-Saint-Guibert (30 kilometres (19 mi) away from Brussels ). The Lhoist group , world leader in
88-498: The communes that existed before their merger in 1921. The term deelgemeente is used in Dutch and the term section in French to refer to such a subdivision of a municipality anywhere in Belgium, municipalities having been merged throughout the country in the 1970s . Herefor, sections or deelgemeenten usually were independent municipalities before the fusions in the 1970s. In French,
99-648: The lime, dolime and mineral solutions, has its head office in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve (Limelette). Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve is home to the Royal Ottignies Stimont football club ( soccer ) and the Rugby Ottignies Club ( rugby ). Deelgemeente A deelgemeente ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdeːlɣəˌmeːntə] , literally sub-municipality ), or section ( French pronunciation: [sɛksjɔ̃] ),
110-463: The number has been decreased to eight. Eindhoven 's stadsdelen correspond to the former municipalities that fused into that of Eindhoven in 1920; their use to subdivide Eindhoven is standard on traffic signs and in official documents and publications, but they have no political or administrative independence. This article about geography terminology is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Netherlands location article
121-399: The term section is sometimes confused with commune (for: municipality), especially in larger cities like Charleroi and Mons as the sections composing the municipality used to be individual communes before the 1970s. It is therefore not rare to hear that Mons comprises "19 communes " when in fact Mons is a single municipality ( commune ) divided into 19 sections . In addition, there
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