State Archives in Belgium - State Archives in Brussels (Anderlecht)

State Archives in Brussels (Anderlecht)

Demetskaai, 7

1070 Anderlecht

Brussels-Capital Region

Tel: +32 (0)2/524.61.15

Fax: +32 (0)2/520.93.21

Rijksarchief.Anderlecht@arch.be

What’s New ?

The records of the auxiliary repository of rue du Houblon can now be consulted in Anderlecht
From June 10^th, 2008, readers who wish to consult the records preserved at the auxiliary repository of Rue du Houblon must go to the reading room of the State Archives in Brussels (Anderlecht) instead of the National Archives (rue de Ruysbroeck).

Microfilm collection
At present, each State Archives repository possesses the microfilms of its individual competence. This will also be the case at the State Archives in Louvain-la-Neuve. The sole exceptions are the genealogical centres in Anderlecht, Beveren and Liège, where a more vast collection of microfilms can be consulted (see details of the collections of the repository in Anderlecht on the website). The opening of the new repository in Louvain-la-Neuve will not affect our collection. In the future (probably already at the beginning of next year), it will be possible to consult all digitised documents from all regions at each individual State Archives repository.

What do we preserve?

The depository in Brussels (Anderlecht) is the preservation place for archives of all public institutions with regional or local competences that exercised or still exercise their functions in the Brussels region during or since the Ancien Régime. It also preserves the archives of the external services of the Federal Public Services (former Ministries), the archives of the courts and tribunals of the Brussels region and the minutes of a large number of notaries located in this region. Finally, the depository located in Anderlecht keeps a microfilm collection of the parish registers dating from before 1795, a microfilm collection of the civil status registers of Brussels’ communes and the provinces of Walloon Brabant, Hainaut, Liège and Namur, and finally a microfilm collection of the population registers of some communes of the former Province of Brabant.
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Archives of the Ancien Régime
Public archives of the contemporary period
Ecclesiastic Archives
Notarial minutes
Genealogic sources

In the auxiliary depository located at Rue du Houblon primarily company archives are preserved.
Find out more about the archives preserved at Rue du Houblon and the modalities of document consultation.

Who is who?

Head of Service: Luc Janssens
Archivists: Harald Deceulaer
Reception, reading room and stack-rooms administration: Alain Bordin, Laurent Ceressia, Patricia Gevers, Pascale Haustrate, Alexander Heymans, Jean-François Meert, Marie-Louise Oomen, Marnix Tanghe
Interior maintenance: Fatima Ait Laggchim, Fatima Chabira, Agnès Nyiramisago

How to get there?

By public transport: From the south station (Bruxelles Midi): take the tramway 56 in direction of “Marius Renard”. Step off at the stop “Cureghem”, walk over the bridge and along the channel for fifty metres. The depository is facing the railway bridge.
From the central station (Bruxelles Central): Take the Metro line 1B in direction of “Erasme” and step off at “Aumale”. Take Rue Vander Bruggen to the Canal de Charleroi, walk along the channel to your left for about fifty metres. The depository is located in front of the railway bridge. (Ca. 10-15 minutes walk).

By car: Take the Ring and leave at exit 16; drive on Chaussée de Mons to the Canal de Charleroi. At the crossing, turn left and drive on Quai Demets (same channel side). The depository is across from the railway bridge. Parking space is often scarce.

Opening et closing hours

Short history of the State Archives in Brussels (Anderlecht)

Institutional evolution in Belgium has led to a splitting of the Province of Brabant in the run of the fourth reform of the federal state, concluded in 1993. This splitting gave birth to two new Provinces (Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant), on the 1st of January 1995, and to a particular administrative district (Brussels-Capital). Adapting the State Archives to this new configuration was thus necessary…
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Last Updated ( Friday, 07 May 2010 )

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