Koksijde
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State : | Belgium | |
Region : | Flanders | |
Province : | West Flanders | |
District : | Veurne | |
Coordinates : | 51 ° 6 ′ N , 2 ° 39 ′ E | |
Area : | 43.96 km² | |
Residents: | 21,910 (Jan. 1, 2019) | |
Population density: | 498 inhabitants per km² | |
Post Code: | 8670 | |
Prefix: | 058 | |
Mayor: | Marc Vanden Bussche ( LDD ) | |
Local government address : |
Gemeentehuis Koksijde Zeelaan 303 8670 Koksijde |
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Website: | www.koksijde.be |
Koksijde is a municipality in the province of West Flanders on the Flemish coast. The community has 21,910 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). The main source of income is tourism. In the Oostduinkerke district, crabs are still fished with nets and horses.
history
In 1777 the place appears as Cauxyde in the Ferraris maps . In 1977 the municipalities of Oostduinkerke , Wulpen and Koksijde including Sankt Idesbald (Flemish Sint-Idesbald ) were merged. In 2004 the Studio Koksijde cinema was built; it is the only cinema on the Belgian west coast and in the Westhoek .
reception
The vacationers of the summer of 1914 saw themselves “stranded at the most beautiful end of the world,” wrote the writer Jakob Hein in Lieutenant Stern's novel Die Orient-Mission .
Attractions
- 701 hectares of nature reserve
- The Paul Delvaux Museum in Sankt Idesbald opened in 1982 .
- Hoge Blekker, a nature reserve since 1999 with the highest dune (33 m) on the Belgian coast.
- Ten Duinen Monastery
- Beach between 250 and 700 m wide at low tide
- Koksijde military airfield , base of the Belgian air component
Partnerships
- Bad Schallerbach (A)
- Conc (D)
- District Oostduinkerke aan Zee: sister to Wépion-sur-Meuse (B), Biedenkopf an der Lahn (D), Neustadt an der Orla (D), La Charité-sur-Loire (F)
photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jakob Hein, Die Orient-Mission des Leutnant Stern . Berlin 2018, p. 7
Web links
Commons : Koksijde - Oostduinkerke - album with pictures, videos and audio files