Brecht, Belgium

:"For information on the German author and playwright, please see Bertolt Brecht."

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arrondissement=Antwerp
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mayor=Luc Aerts (CD&V N-VA)
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Brecht is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Brecht proper, Sint-Job-in't-Goor and Sint-Lenaarts. On January 1 2006 Brecht had a total population of 26,464. The total area is 90.84 km² which gives a population density of 291 inhabitants per km².

Brecht is a fast growing municipality in the north of the Antwerp province, near the Dutch border. A new station, Noorderkempen, is planned on the HSL-Zuid high speed rail line from Netherlands to Brussels and Paris.

Personality

* Leonard Lessius (1554-1623), moral theologian (and pioneer in the field of business ethics) was born in Brecht.

ee also

* Brecht Abbey

External links

* [http://www.brecht.be Official website]
* [http://www.toerismebrecht.be Tourism in Brecht]