Editing Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (section)

==History==
[[File:20080622 Coloma Sint-Pietersleeuw (037).jpg|left|thumb|Coloma Rose Garden]]
The municipality is one of the largest municipalities in [[Flemish Brabant]]. The rural settlement grew into a major residential and professional community. Sint-Pieters-Leeuw has a lengthy history behind it.

The oldest document dates back to the 9th century and is a deed of donation by 'dame Angela', a noblewoman from [[Province of Brabant|Brabant]], in which reference is made to a 'domain' of seven miles in length and one mile in width with a parent church and 9 subsidiary churches', donated to the chapter of Saint Peter in [[Deutz, Cologne]].

From 1236 onwards the domain belonged to the Land of [[Gaasbeek]]. In 1284 [[Henry I, Duke of Brabant]] and lord of Gaasbeek, granted a copy of the local penal code to the populace, which led the municipality to long remain the principal seat of a 'meierij' (Dutch for a district over which a mayor has jurisdiction) and a college of Aldermen.

In 1687 the fiefdom of Gaasbeek was publicly sold in various parts. By marriage or inheritance both the water castle of Coloma, currently the Municipal Cultural Centre, and the rights of the fiefdom as well as all manner of provisions (among others mills) became the possession of important nobles and courtiers such as Jan Karel Roose, member of the [[Great Council of Mechelen]] and Vital-Alex de Coloma, chamberlain of empress Maria-Theresia.

Since 1 January 1977 the former municipalities of Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, [[Oudenaken]], [[Ruisbroek, Flemish Brabant|Ruisbroek]], [[Sint-Laureins-Berchem]] and [[Vlezenbeek]] have been joined to form a new administrative residential community.