Astrid Park (, ; , ) is an urban public park in the municipality of Anderlecht in Brussels, Belgium. It is named in honour of Queen Astrid, the fourth Queen of the Belgians and wife of King Leopold III. It is home to the historic football club RSC Anderlecht, with the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium being located in the park's north-western corner.

The park is surrounded by the /, the /, the / and the /. It is served by the metro stations Saint-Guidon/Sint-Guido and Veeweyde/Veeweide on line 5.

History

The park was inaugurated on 13 August 1911 and was designed in its current form by the landscape architect Jules Buyssens in 1926. It was named the / ("Meir Park") until 1935, when the mayor of Anderlecht decided to change its name in memory of Queen Astrid, the fourth Queen of the Belgians and first wife of King Leopold III, who died in a car crash that year.

Since 1917, the football club RSC Anderlecht has played its home matches in the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium (formerly called the Émile Versé Stadium and also known as the Lotto Park for sponsorship reasons), located within the park. Therefore, the stadium is sometimes metonymically referred to as Parc Astrid.

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File:Anderlecht2019 26.jpg|View towards the pond

File:Anderlecht2019 27.jpg|Upper part

File:3561astridPark.jpg|Water feature

File:Jules Ruhl statue parc Astrid.jpg|Jules Ruhl statue

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See also

  • List of parks and gardens in Brussels
  • History of Brussels
  • Belgium in the long nineteenth century

References

Citations

Bibliography

  • Anderlecht page on Astrid Park
  • Same, in Dutch