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LastDodo number
4529131
Area
Postcards
Title
Brussel Justitie Paleis, Palais de Justice
Country
Year
1903
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Dimensions
14.0 x 8.8 cm
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Postmark 8 May 1903 Bruxelles Stamp Belgian 2 centimes N ° 55 with Sunday slip Addressed to Tilburg, Netherlands Postmark 9 May 1903. Justice Palace (wiki) It is the center of the jurisdiction of the Brussels Court of Appeal and of the judicial district of Brussels and the seat of the Court of Cassation. The building was built in an eclectic style in 1860 by architect Joseph Poelaert, under the reign of King Leopold I. In the 19th century, this gigantic building was considered the largest building in the world. [1] In addition to new prisons and gendarmerie barracks, this building provides a new vision of the fight against crime in the half of the 19th century. The emphasis came more on the deterrent of the new arsenal of repressive institutions and buildings than on the rather arbitrary physical and public punishment in the former Ancien Regime. The courthouse is built on a steeply sloping surface (20 meters upper and lower city) so that the entrances are on different levels. Everything about this building is of enormous size and scale. The building is in the shape of a rectangle with diameters measuring 150 and 160 meters respectively. [1] The total built-up area is 26,006 m². It has 8 courtyards (6000 m²), 27 large and 245 small halls or classrooms. A monumental dome (24,000 tons), 104 meters high (142 meters above TAW), crowns the building

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