Scheut

In 1356, the Count of Flanders, Louis II, fought against Brussels on the territory of Anderlecht, in the so-called Battle of Scheut, supposedly over a monetary matter.Jean Baptiste Nicolas Coomans, Jeanne Goetghebuer : chronique brabançonne du XIVe siècle (in French), Brussels, Coomans, 1854, p.57 Although he defeated his sister-in-law, the Duchess of Brabant, Joanna, and briefly took her title, she regained it the following year with the help of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles IV. In 1393, Joanna's charter made Anderlecht a part of Brussels.

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In 1454, the Carthusian Monastery of Our Lady of Grace was founded in Scheut. Due to the wars of religion, it was abandoned by 1578. It was rebuilt in the 1580s, but the monastery was finally transferred to Brussels. On the site of the Carthusian Monastery stood a chapel called Our Lady of Scheut, whose pleasant location, in the middle of a grove, made this place very popular at the time.Bart Fransen, Restanten van een meesterwerk : de bouwsculptuur van de kapel van Scheut, in: Millennium, Tijdschrift voor middeleeuwse studies (in Dutch), 2009, no. 1–2, p. 112–128

The 17th and 18th centuries were marked by the wars between the Low Countries and France. During the Nine Years' War, it is from the high ground of Scheut that the bombardment of Brussels of 1695 took place. Together with the resulting fire, it was the most destructive event in the entire history of Brussels.{{sfn|Culot|Hennaut|Demanet|Mierop|1992}} On 13 November 1792, right after the Battle of Jemappes, General Dumouriez and the French Revolutionary army routed the Austrians there once again.[https://books.google.com/books?id=1bEUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false|Tissot, Pierre-François (1821). Précis ou histoire a brégée des guerres de la Révolution française (in French), p. 13]Antoine de Jomini, Histoire critique et militaire des guerres de la Révolution: Campagne de 1792 (in French), t. 2, Paris, 1820, p. 238–239. Among the consequences were the disbanding of the canons and Anderlecht being proclaimed an independent municipality by the French.

It is also in this district, on the {{lang|fr|Chaussée de Ninove|italic=no}}/{{lang|nl|Ninoofsesteenweg|italic=no}}, that lay the foundations of the Scheutveld College, on 28 April 1863, by the Catholic priest Theophile Verbist. The congregation of Scheut Missionaries went on to evangelise China, Mongolia, the Philippines, as well as the Congo Free State/Belgian Congo (modern-day Democratic Republic of the Congo).{{sfn|Verhelst|Pycke|1995}}{{sfn|Vanysacker|Renson|1995|p=36–37}} The old chapel was incorporated into the Scheutists' church, but was demolished in 1974 to make way for a supermarket. The then-curator of the Erasmus House (a museum in Anderlecht devoted to the Dutch humanist writer Erasmus of Rotterdam) was able to save the carved corbels and keystones at the last minute. These were recently attributed to Rogier van der Weyden.

• The Church of St. Vincent de Paul, a former Catholic church designed in Art Deco style and built in 1935–1937. Its presbytery and outbuildings were converted into a new school, which opened in 2018.{{Cite web |title=Eglise Saint-Vincent de Paul – Inventaire du patrimoine mobilier |url=https://collections.heritage.brussels/fr/institutions/11 |access-date=2022-07-05 |website=collections.heritage.brussels |language=fr}}{{Cite web |title=Eglise Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Scheut) - Informations sur l'édifice - Orgues en Région de Bruxelles-Capitale |url=http://www.orgues.irisnet.be/fr/Edifice/7/Eglise-Saint-Vincent-de-Paul--Scheut.rvb |access-date=2022-07-05 |website=www.orgues.irisnet.be |archive-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705191718/http://www.orgues.irisnet.be/fr/Edifice/7/Eglise-Saint-Vincent-de-Paul--Scheut.rvb |url-status=live }}
• The Museum of China – Scheut, which houses documents and pieces brought back to Europe by the congregation of Scheut Missionaries, including a 15th-century bronze Buddha.{{cite web|url=https://www.brusselsmuseums.be/en/museums/museum-of-china-scheut|title=Museum of China - Scheut|last=Fun|first=Everything is|date=2017-03-10|website=Brussels Museums|language=en|access-date=2019-12-14}}
• The {{lang|fr|Parc Forestier|italic=no}}/{{lang|nl|Bospark|italic=no}}, located in the former Anderlecht Cemetery. The old cemetery's monumental entrance and walls still surround the park to this day.{{Cite web |title=Parc forestier |url=https://gardens.brussels/fr/espaces-verts/parc-forestier |access-date=2022-07-05 |website=Brussels Gardens |language=fr}}
• The main police station of the 5341 Brussels South police zone: Anderlecht, Forest and Saint-Gilles.{{Cite web |title=Police zone Midi 5341: Anderlecht/Saint-Gilles/Forest — Région bruxelloise - Brussels Gewest |url=https://be.brussels/living-in-brussels/health-and-safety/police-service/police-zone-midi-5341-anderlecht-saint-gilles-and-forest |access-date=2022-07-05 |website=be.brussels |archive-date=5 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220705191837/https://be.brussels/living-in-brussels/health-and-safety/police-service/police-zone-midi-5341-anderlecht-saint-gilles-and-forest |url-status=live }}

File:Anderlecht-Scheut; église Saint Vincent de Paul.jpg|Church of St. Vincent de Paul

File:Anderlecht2019 33.jpg|Entrance of the {{lang|fr|Parc Forestier|italic=no}}/{{lang|nl|Bospark|italic=no}}

File:Anderlecht2019 32.jpg|Inside the Parc Forestier

File:Missiehuis van Scheut - Bâtiment.jpg|Scheut House of the CICM Missionaries

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• {{cite book|last1=Culot|first1=Maurice|last2=Hennaut|first2=Eric|last3=Demanet|first3=Marie|last4=Mierop|first4=Caroline|title=Le bombardement de Bruxelles par Louis XIV et la reconstruction qui s'ensuivit, 1695–1700|location=Brussels|language=fr|publisher=AAM éditions|year=1992|isbn=978-2-87143-079-7}}
• {{cite journal|last=De Waha|first=Michel|title=Aux origines de la chartreuse de Scheut : pèlerinage "populaire" et monastère "patricien"|journal=Annales de la Société royale belge d'archéologie de Bruxelles|volume=55|location=Brussels|language=fr|year=1978|page=3–26}}
• {{cite book|last1=Verhelst|first1=Daniël|last2=Pycke|first2=Nestor|title=C.I.C.M. Missionaries Past and Present: History of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Scheut/Missionhurst)|series=Verbistiana|volume=4|location=Leuven|publisher=Leuven University Press|year=1995|isbn=978-90-6186-676-3}}
• {{cite book|last1=Vanysacker|first1=Dries|last2=Renson|first2=Raymond|title=The Archives of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM-Scheut) (1862–1967) - 2 v.|location=Rome|publisher=Bibliothèque de l'Institut Historique Belge de Rome|year=1995|isbn=978-90-74461-15-3}}

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