| Page Views: 4,407 Last Visit to Overijse: 2002 I Used To Live Here | Overijse and the grapes by cadzand - last update: Aug 3, 2008 |
Overijse in Flemish Brabant is my home-town, the village where I live since over 30 years. It has more than 24000 inhabitants. Flemish is spoken by the majority of the inhabitants, french is widely spoken too. A large part of the inhabitants come from other european countries, thanks to the European Community, as the Brussels headquarter is nearby.
Next to Overijse-centrum, there are the separated villages Jezus-Eik, Eizer, Terlanen, Ottenburg, Tombeek and Maleizen, which are part of Overijse.
Flemish Brabant has rolling contours, its ground level rising gradually from north to south, culminating in the Forest of Zoniën at 139 m. In 1822 the Forest of Zoniën still covered an area of 12.000 ha. That was all that was left of the once so mighty ‘Kolen Forest’, which was used by the first Belgian historians to explain the phenomenon of the language border. Today there only remains about one third of the Forest of Zoniën as it was in 1822. The largest part of this lies in Flemish Brabant. For a long time the poorest of the poor lived in and around this forest, as was the case with every forest in the world.
The ring of poor boroughs around the Forest of Zoniën very slowly developed into a residential zone for richer people moving out of Brussels, many of them French speakers, and later also as a home to well-off officials from the European Community, NATO staff and executives from foreign companies. This part of Flemish Brabant has always keenly felt the pressure of Brussels. The fact that the new province is Flemish may lighten this pressure, but cannot remove it.
Some great links
dijleland
www.overijse.be
streekproducten vlaams brabant
vlaams brabant.be
vlaanderen vakantieland
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Basaic Thu Mar 20, 2008 20:50 UTC
I have had some Belgiam wine, and look forward to some more. Great Page! | Pawtuxet Mon Apr 9, 2007 14:23 UTC
Back for another visit to your lovely little village. Seems very peaceful and beautiful. Fascinating info about growing grapes. What is limbic? Haven't heard of that. Perhaps one day I will taste it. | Norali Thu Jan 25, 2007 13:32 UTC
A ton aise, Blaise... lol Bonne chance pour la réparation... ou alors ferais-tu un petit tour chez Mediamarkt ou chez les vendeurs Bd Anspach ? | wandeljp Wed Nov 8, 2006 20:13 UTC
Ik heb nog niet het genoegen gehad U te mogen ontmoeten. En ben heel blij om dat te kunnen doen volgend jaar op onze "First flanders wild-west meeting"! Bedankt voor U inschrijving. We zijn vorig WE gaan wandelen van Leuven tot Leefdaal. mooie streek !JP |
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