Anderlecht Gate

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The Anderlechtsepoort (French: Porte d'Anderlecht) is a traffic square in Brussels on the site of a former city gate on the second wall. After taking down the fortifications, it became a patent gate in the 19th century with two pavilions, in which since 1988 the Riolenmuseum houses.

Medieval city gate: A document dated 4 May 1359 mentions a Nuwe poerte near den Cruyskene, a neighborhood on the current Anderlechtsesteenweg. This first sign of the existence of the Anderlechsepoort was only confirmed in 1432 with the toponym Anderlechscher poerten. They also spoke of the Crossgate or t'Cruyseken. Like the other six city gates, she was lying on an outpost, in this case the Bergensesteenweg, which ran through Anderlecht to Bergen and France. The guarding of the Anderlechtsepoort was entrusted to the family Serroelofs, assisted from 1422 by the St. The attic of the gate was one of many places where the city government stored grain. In 1638 a certain Jan Boone was allowed to build two windmills on the vests at the gate. From 1747, prisoners were locked up in the Anderlechtsepoort and from 1760 prostitutes. In 1783-1784 the...