Ursel (Belgium)

Saint Medard's Church in Ursel

Ursel is a district of the Belgian municipality of Aalter in the Flanders region . The place is in the province of East Flanders in the Ghent arrondissement and has an area of 20.72 km² and 2673 inhabitants (as of 2002).

Knesselare is 3 km to the west, Ghent 18 km to the south-east, Bruges 20 km to the west-north-west and Brussels 68 km to the south-east.

The postcode is 9910 and the phone code is 09.

The municipality of Ursel became part of Knesselare in 1977, which in turn merged with Aalter on January 1, 2019.

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In the southern town of Aalter there is the next motorway exit on the A10 / E 40 and a regional train station on the Ostend- Brugge-Aalter-Gent-Brussels railway line .

There is a regional airport near Ostend and an international airport near the capital Brussels.

The organist and composer Cyriel van den Abeele (1875–1946) was born in Ursel .