Berchem (Antwerp)

Location of the district in the city of Antwerp

Berchem is a district (district) in the southwest of Antwerp in the province of the same name Antwerp in Belgium .

geography

The district is bounded by the municipal districts Deurne , Borgerhout , Wilrijk , Antwerp and the urban area of Mortsel .

Berchem covers an area of 5.79 km² and has around 40,062 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2006).

Berchem is connected to the E 19 motorway and national and international train lines , and also has its own train station . Pieter Claesz was born in Berchem.

Zurenborg district, specifically the Cogels-Osylei and the neighboring streets Transvaalstraat and Waterloostraat. Here you can find buildings in the Art Nouveau style and from different styles of historicism .
Berchem cemetery
Main building of the Middelheim campus (built in the Art Deco style)

Sons and daughters:

Ibtissam Bouharat (* 1990), football player
Hans Van Bylen (* 1961), industrial manager
Harry Kümel (* 1940), director
Pierre de Caters (1875–1944), car and motorboat racing driver, aviation pioneer and entrepreneur
Pieter Claesz (1596–1661), painter
Nazaire De Wolf (1917–1983), composer
Leo Kok (1923–1945), painter, outfitter, costume and set designer

People related to the city:

Pieter van der Heyden (* 1530 in Antwerp, † 1572 in Berchem)
Georges Ronsse (1906–1969)
Marie de Jésus Deluil-Martiny (1841–1884), founder of the Société des Filles du Sacré Cœur , which has its parent company here to this day

Commons : Berchem, Antwerp - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Zurenborg - collection of images, videos and audio files

^ Antwerpen-Berchem train station. OpenStreetMap, accessed August 10, 2010 (Dutch).

51.193815 4.433627Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ' N , 4 ° 26' E