Geraardsbergen
Geraardsbergen is a beautiful city in the southeastern corner of East Flanders. The city was founded in 1068 by Duke of Flanders Boudewijn IV. The reason of its foundation was because of the strategic position right on the borders of Hainaut and Brabant.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Saber68, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 33,200 residents
- Description: city in East Flanders, Belgium
- Also known as: “Geeraardsbergen”, “Giesbaargen”, “Grammont”, and “Mattentaartenstad”
- Postal code: 9500
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oudenberg and Boelaremeersen.
Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Oudebergkapel
Church
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Oudebergkapel is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Idegem.
Idegem
Village
Photo: Johan Allard, CC BY 4.0.
Idegem is a village, which is situated 4½ km northeast of Geraardsbergen.
Geraardsbergen
- Categories: municipality of Belgium, Belgian municipality with the title of city, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Aalst, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.7716° or 50° 46′ 18″ northLongitude
3.8827° or 3° 52′ 58″ eastPopulation
33,200Elevation
32 metres (105 feet)United Nations Location Code
BE GEAOpen location code
9F25QVCM+J3OpenStreetMap ID
node 2986395431OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Zeeuws—“Geraardsbergen” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Geraardsbergen”
- Breton: “Geraardsbergen”
- Bulgarian: “Герардсберген”
- Catalan: “Geraardsbergen”
- Cebuano: “Geraardsbergen (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Geraardsbergen”
- Chinese: “赫拉尔兹贝亨”
- Chinese: “赫拉爾茲貝亨”
- Danish: “Geraardsbergen”
- Dutch: “Geraardsbergen”
- Dutch: “Giesbaargen”
- Dutch: “Grammont”
- Dutch: “Mattentaartenstad”
- Esperanto: “Geraardsbergen”
- Estonian: “Geraardsbergen”
- French: “Geraardsbergen”
- French: “Giesbaargen”
- French: “Grammont”
- French: “Mattentaartenstad”
- German: “Geraardsbergen”
- German: “Gerhardsbergen”
- Hungarian: “Geraardsbergen”
- Irish: “Geraardsbergen”
- Italian: “Geraardsbergen”
- Italian: “Grammont”
- Japanese: “ヘラールツベルヘン”
- Japanese: “ヘラールトスベルヘン”
- Latin: “Gerardimontium”
- Latvian: “Gerārdsbergena”
- Lithuanian: “Gėrarsbergenas”
- Luxembourgish: “Geraardsbergen”
- Macedonian: “Герардсберген”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Geraardsbergen”
- Norwegian: “Geraardsbergen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Geraardsbergen”
- Persian: “ژراردزبرژان”
- Polish: “Geraardsbergen”
- Polish: “Overboelare”
- Portuguese: “Geraardsbergen”
- Romanian: “Geraardsbergen”
- Russian: “Гераардсберген”
- Russian: “Герардсберген”
- Serbian: “Geraardsbergen”
- Serbian: “Gerardsbergen”
- Serbian: “Герардсберген”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Geraardsbergen”
- Slovak: “Geraardsbergen”
- Spanish: “Geraardsbergen”
- Swahili: “Geraardsbergen”
- Swedish: “Geraardsbergen”
- Turkish: “Geraardsbergen”
- Turkish: “Grammont”
- Vietnamese: “Geraardsbergen”
- Vlaams: “Geroardsbergn”
- Volapük: “Geraardsbergen”
- Walloon: “Geraardsbergen”
- Walloon: “Grandmont”
- Waray (Philippines): “Geraardsbergen”
- Zeeuws: “Geraerdsbergen”
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