ENGLISH SUMMARY
We strongly advise all citizens to learn Dutch, the official language of the region. You can practise your knowledge every two weeks in the library next to the Town Hall :every first and third wednesday from 19 till 21 hours. For those that had not yet the occasion to do this we resume some goals and realisations of VooruitGroenXL (socialists, Green, Liberals and independent kandidates)
TRANSPARANCY - FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION
We are still searching residents to fight with us for a better municipal policy. VooruitGroenXL stands for : a transparant policy that stops corruption and violations of spatial planning We strived for the acquisition of nature reserves, revalue parks, playgrounds, and public space like : Marktplein the station area...
WASTE PREVENTION
"Met een sterk afvalpreventiebeleid verminderden we niet alleen het restafval - wat goed is voor het milieu - maar verkleinden we ook de factuur en verhoogden de inkomsten uit bijvoorbeeld de textielinzameling - wat dan weer goed was voor de portemonnee."
Klaar voor de toekomst
LOCAL ECONOMY - SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY - CITIZEN PARTICIPATION -
VooruitGroen XL wants a bold progressive policy with particular attention for local economy, sustainable mobilty, a well thougt out housing policy, citizen participation wih a citizen budget. . "VooruitgroenXL encourages initiatives for citizen platforms",
PRESERVATION HERITAGE - PROMOTING TOURISM
Monuments like the drinking water pump near the town haal were restored. We made Ternat attactive for tourists by making public our special places : heritage, nature, places to eat and to drink, and other nice places.
Writer Pol De Mont was born in Wambeek a wall ↑ is dedicated to him and Bruegel, and a foundation keeps his memory alive
< Restauration of our monuments
In the 13th century, the Wezemaels, knights of the Duke of Brabant, came to conquer empty land on the abbey of Nijvel below the Cruyckenbosch in Ternat, where they built a castle a century later. That’s how it became the administrative centre in Ternat. The best known lord of Kruikenburgh is Everaard t ‘Serclaes, the Brussels patrician who, on the night of October 24, 1356, launched the attack that put an end to the occupation of the city by the count of Flanders’ army. In 1976 the three municipalities of Ternat, Sint-Katherina-Lombeek and Wambeek merged, again becoming one municipality and thus reuniting the glory of the Kruikenberg area once more.
Le Natte
Old forms of the church name are Nath (1112, 1268), Le Natte (1253, 1268 in the Picardian, written language in Nijvel), Ternath (1435). The name may refer to a settlement on damp soil or “wet”, or to a seam or boundary of a secular or spiritual domain. But one should take more seriously into account a possible origin in Romanesque, Celtic or a lost prehistoric language. In Picardian, ‘nat’ is a straw mat.
Pajottenland - Land of Bruegel
Ternat is the northern gate to the Pajottenland, a slightly hilly area stretching between Anderlecht and Ninove, and to Galmaarden in the south. It was the Lennik lawyer F.J. De Gronckel who invented the name in the 19th century. It is also the region where Pieter Bruegel in his Brussels period, toward the end of his life, found inspiration for his paintings in the churches and landscapes of Ternat and Sint-Anna-Pede.
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