- Chaussée de Charleroi/Charleroisesteenweg. The
first houses of the
hamlet of
Obbrussel (Old Dutch: Obbrusselsche,
meaning "Upper Brussels") were built, between...
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enclosed Brussels, and its only
remaining trace. It
first bore the name of
Obbrussel Gate (Old Dutch: Obbrusselsche, for "Upper Brussels", now Saint-Gilles)...
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place in 1661.
Water was
brought to the
fountain by a new
conduit from
Obbrussel (now Saint-Gilles). This
fountain was
replaced in 1751 by the present...
- and 1675, by the
military engineers Merex and Blom, on the
heights of
Obbrussel (Old Dutch: Obbrusselsche, for "Upper Brussels", now Saint-Gilles), south...
