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13-588: Sint-Michiels ( Dutch pronunciation: [sɪnt mɪˈxils] ) is a sub-municipality of the city of Bruges located in the province of West Flanders , Flemish Region , Belgium . It was a separate municipality until 1971. On 1 January 1971, it was merged into Bruges. The amusement park Boudewijn Seapark with the dolphinarium is situated in Sint-Michiels. In 1959 the American long distance bus (coach) operator Continental Trailways made an agreement with

26-436: A maker of railway equipment, agreed to assemble the buses with parts and tooling from SETRA, which arrived in 1960. BN also agreed to help Continental set up its own factory and train its original workers. The BN-built buses were based on the last SETRA Silver Eagles made in 1958. After the contract was fulfilled, BN kept the assembly line open in its factory and it was then operated under the name of Bus & Car, N.V. (Inc.). By

39-503: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sub-municipality 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

52-565: 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

65-587: 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"). Districts of Antwerp The Belgian city of Antwerp consists of nine former municipalities (called deelgemeenten ) which have

78-451: The Belgian firm of La Brugeoise et Nivelles to assemble 85 highway coaches, named NEW Silver Eagles, for the American market. The parts and tooling for this venture were supplied by Kässbohrer-SETRA of Germany. SETRA had a contract with Continental to produce the buses but wanted out so it could use all of its production capacity to serve its European customers. La Brugeoise et Nivelles, primarily

91-509: 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,

104-540: The cities of Brussels, Antwerp and Gent in Belgium plus the Dutch capital of The Hague. BN recently started production in 2018 of a large order of double deck passenger equipment for the Belgian Railways. The factory is expected to close when the order is completed in about three more years. The former Bus & Car factory building still exists and is presently a large shopping center. This West Flanders location article

117-498: 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,

130-657: The districts have elected "district councils" and a "district college", but only Antwerp has made use of that provision. Other cities in which the provision theoretically could be implemented are Ghent , Bruges and Leuven in Flanders ; Charleroi , Liège and Namur in Wallonia ; and the City of Brussels , Anderlecht and Schaerbeek in Brussels Region (although Anderlecht and Schaerbeek do not contain other former municipalities). There have repeatedly been proposals to merge

143-536: The mid-1970s the US dollar had lost significant value on world markets, making production in Belgium uneconomic for customers in the USA. Continental sold its Belgian assets to MOL N.V. of Hooglede, Belgium and the factory closed around 1980. La Brugeoise et Nivelles changed its name to BN and was later bought out by Bombardier of Canada. BN's longtime specialty was railway equipment. BN also made several hundred PCC streetcars or trams for

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156-469: The status of district. Most Belgian municipalities are made up of former municipalities that were merged in the past. Called deelgemeenten , they do not have any political function, and limited administrative use, as only the current, "larger" municipalities have elected councils. However, Article 41 of the Belgian Constitution provides for the possibility of implementing districts for any municipality with at least 100,000 inhabitants. In such cases,

169-399: 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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