Georges Henri Premetro Station
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The Georges Henri premetro station is part of the Brussels Metro system. It is located in the municipality of
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert Woluwe-Saint-Lambert () or Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe (Dutch, ) is one of the nineteen municipalities in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It is a prosperous residential area, with a mixture of flats and detached, semi-detached and terraced hous ...
in the
Brussels-Capital Region Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, RĂ©gion de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
of
Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
. The station opened on 30 January 1975. Named for the Avenue Georges Henrilaan, which runs perpendicular to the greater ring at the south end of the station, it is located on the Boulevard Brand Whitlocklaan section of the greater ring. It is the second of four stations on the greater ring premetro, connecting by
Diamant premetro station The Diamant premetro station is a station on the Brussels Metro located in the municipality of Schaerbeek in Brussels, Belgium. It was inaugurated on May 2, 1972. The station is a "premetro" station. It is thus not used by conventional subway tr ...
to the north and
Montgomery metro station Montgomery is an underground station on the Brussels Metro, the first station on the eastern branch of line 1 (formerly line 1B), in the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. The station also serves a number of tram lines and buses: Brussels tram ...
to the south. The station is served by the 7 and 25 trams and the 27, 28 and 80 buses. As with the majority of Brussels metro stations an artwork is displayed in the station, a work entitled ''t Is de wind'' created by Flemish ceramicist
Pieter Stockmans Pieter (Piet) Stockmans (born Leopoldsburg, 26 October 1940) is a Flemish designer and ceramist. Biography Stockmans was born in Leopoldsburg. He studied sculpture and ceramics in Hasselt and in Selb in Germany. After graduation, he settled ...
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