Oosterzele
Oosterzele (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈoːstərzeːlə]) is a municipality located in the Flemish province of East Flanders, in Belgium. The municipality comprises the towns of Balegem, Gijzenzele, Landskouter, Moortsele, Oosterzele proper and Scheldewindeke. On January 1, 2006, Oosterzele had a total population of 13,172. The total area is 43.12 km² which gives a population density of 305 inhabitants per km². Its twin town is Oberkirch in Germany.
Oosterzele | |
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 Church of Landskouter (2008) | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Oosterzele Location in Belgium
Location of Oosterzele in East Flanders  | |
| Coordinates: 50°57′N 03°48′E | |
| Country | Belgium |
| Community | Flemish Community |
| Region | Flemish Region |
| Province | East Flanders |
| Arrondissement | Ghent |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Johan Van Durme(CD&V/N-VA) |
| • Governing party/ies | CD&V/N-VA |
| Area | |
| • Total | 43.12 km2 (16.65 sq mi) |
| Population (2018-01-01)[1] | |
| • Total | 13,546 |
| • Density | 310/km2 (810/sq mi) |
| Postal codes | 9860 |
| Area codes | 09 |
| Website | www.oosterzele.be |
Geography
Oosterzele is subdivided into 6 sub-municipalities:
| # | Deelgemeentes | Area (km²) | Population | Population density |
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| I | Oosterzele | |||
| II | Balegem | 12,02 | ||
| III | Scheldewindeke | 11,84 | ||
| IV | Moortsele | 3,64 | ||
| V | Landskouter | |||
| VI | Gijzenzele | 1,87 | ||
Famous inhabitants
- Els De Temmerman, journalist, activist
- Johan Van Hecke, politician
- Gustaaf Joos, Roman Catholic cardinal
- Frans Van De Velde (1909-2002), missionary
- Gerard Vekeman (1933), poet
- Walter Muls (1961), politician
- Tom De Sutter (1985), football player
- Johan Taeldeman, linguist, dialectologist, professor-emeritus UGent
gollark: The expected value of demanding for communism appears substantially lower than that of actually helping people with malaria.
gollark: Yet they do not do this, and instead ineffectually demand communism which would totally make everything great and wonderful.
gollark: Consider: the people complaining about wanting communism could probably work in a well-paying job, obtain money, and donate it to effective charities like the Against Malaria Foundation.
gollark: Capitalism seems to be doing a fairly okay job of satisfying the values of, well, people in places with more resources, and apparently most people's values don't actually involve helping people they don't directly interact with because humans are bad.
gollark: From what I do know of Marx, he ends up just making up an analysis framework to get the results he wants out of analyzing things.
References
- "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari 2018". Statbel. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
External links
- (in Dutch) Official website (in Dutch)
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