The Pajottenland (in English occasionally Payottenland ) is a distinct region within the Flemish Brabant province and the south-western part of the Brussels Region of Belgium . The region is located west-southwest of Brussels . The Pajottenland is predominantly farmland, with occasional gently rolling hills, and lies mostly between the rivers Dender and Zenne / Senne . The area has historically provided food and drink for the citizens of Brussels, especially Lambic beers , which are only produced here and in the Zenne valley where Brussels is.
9-613: The Pajottenland is generally understood to cover the following municipalities and submunicipalities : According to a lawyer named De Gronckel who first described it, the Pajottenland also includes Liedekerke and the Ninove deelgemeenten Neigem and Lieferinge. The rural part of Anderlecht , particularly in earlier times before it became a municipality of the Brussels region , may also be included. The tourist area marketed under
18-585: 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 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
27-464: 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, the term section is sometimes confused with commune (for: municipality), especially in larger cities like Charleroi and Mons as the sections composing
36-536: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Submunicipality A deelgemeente ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈdeːlɣəˌmeːntə] , literally sub-municipality ), or section ( French pronunciation: [sɛksjɔ̃] ), is a subdivision of a municipality in Belgium and, until March 2014, in the Netherlands as well. Each municipality in Belgium that existed as
45-595: 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 the Netherlands, deelgemeenten were administrative divisions that could be instituted by any municipality. The city of Amsterdam
54-549: 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 Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
63-410: 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 is the term ancienne commune (former municipality), which has no official existence. A section or deelgemeente does not bear any administrative powers. However,
72-472: The name Pajottenland en Zennevallei (Pajottenland and Zenne Valley) also includes the municipalities Beersel , Drogenbos , Halle , Linkebeek , Sint-Genesius-Rode , which are clustered around the Zenne Valley to the south-west of the main Pajottenland region. 50°47′N 4°7′E / 50.783°N 4.117°E / 50.783; 4.117 This Flemish Brabant location article
81-429: 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, the deelgemeentevoorzitter , their own aldermen, deelgemeentewethouders , and their own elected assembly,
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