About Brecht

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. In 2021, Brecht had a total population of 29,809. The total area is 90.84 km2.

Country: Belgium
Website: https://www.brecht.be/

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Brecht (Dutch pronunciation: [brɛxt] ) 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. In 2021, Brecht had a total population of 29,809. The total area is 90.84 km2.

Brecht is a fast-growing municipality in the north of the Antwerp province, near the Dutch border. Noorderkempen, a railway station on the HSL 4, opened on 15 June 2009.

Notable people

Jan van der Noot (1539–1595), writer and poet, born in Brecht

Leonard Lessius (1554–1623), moral theologian, born in Brecht

Walter Van Beirendonck (1957–), fashion designer and one of the Antwerp Six

Jean Kockerols (1958–), Roman Catholic bishop

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Notable quotes

“People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”
— Garga, from In the Jungle of Cities [Im Dickicht der Städte] (1923) , sc. 9; also translated as In the Swamp and Jungle of Cities.
“What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?”
— Macheath, in Act 3, scene 3, p. 92
“To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.”
— "Notes on Philosophy" in On Politics and Society (1941).
“Komm, geh mit angeln, sagte der Fischer zum Wurm.”
— Come fishing with me, said the fisherman to the worm.
“If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.”
— ¶ 73
“The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news.”
— "To Those Born Later", part of the Svendborg Poems (1939)

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