Zottegem
Zottegem is a vibrant small town in the southeastern corner of East Flanders. It is considered one of the gateways to the hills of the Flemish Ardennes.- Type: Town with 26,600 residents
- Description: city in East Flanders, Belgium
- Also known as: “41081” and “Sottegem”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Egmont Castle and Breivelde Castle.
Egmont Castle
Castle
Egmont Castle or the Castle of Egmont is a castle in Zottegem, Belgium. It has been declared a cultural heritage monument.
Breivelde Castle
Park
Breivelde Castle and the surrounding park Breivelde estate is a castle in Grotenberge, Zottegem in Belgium. Breivelde castle was built in Renaissance Revival architecture in 1904 by owner Philippe Plancqaert van Exen van Beauvechain, replacing a mansion erected in 1871 by former owner August De Rouck.
Egmont Museum
Museum
The Egmont Museum is a museum about Lamoral, Count of Egmont in the former Town Hall of Zottegem, Belgium. The museum was opened in 2018 for the commemoration of the 450th anniversary of the beheading of Lamoral on Grand-Place/Grote Markt in Brussels in 1568.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Velzeke-Ruddershove and Sint-Goriks-Oudenhove.
Velzeke-Ruddershove
Village
Velzeke-Ruddershove is a double village in the Denderstreek in the province of East Flanders in Belgium, currently part of the municipality of Zottegem.
Sint-Goriks-Oudenhove
Village
Sint-Goriks-Oudenhove is a village situated in the municipality of Zottegem, Belgium. It is located in the Flemish Ardennes, the hilly southern part of the province of East Flanders.
Godveerdegem
Village
Godveerdegem is a village belonging to the municipality of Zottegem. It is located on the Molenbeek-Ter Erpenbeek in the Denderstreek and in the Flemish Ardennes, the hilly southern part of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.
Zottegem
- Categories: municipality of Belgium, Belgian municipality with the title of city, and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Aalst, East Flanders, Flanders, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.8695° or 50° 52′ 10″ north
Longitude
3.8092° or 3° 48′ 33″ east
Population
26,600
Elevation
60 metres (197 feet)
Open location code
9F25VR95+QM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Zottegem” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “زوتيجيم”
- Basque: “Zottegem”
- Breton: “Zottegem”
- Bulgarian: “Зотегем”
- Catalan: “Zottegem”
- Cebuano: “Zottegem (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Zottegem”
- Chinese: “佐特海姆”
- Danish: “Zottegem”
- Dutch: “Zottegem”
- Esperanto: “Zottegem”
- Estonian: “Zottegem”
- French: “Zottegem”
- German: “Zottegem”
- Greek: “Ζόττεγκεμ”
- Hebrew: “זוטגם”
- Hungarian: “Zottegem”
- Irish: “Zottegem”
- Italian: “Zottegem”
- Korean: “조테험”
- Lithuanian: “Zotegemas”
- Luxembourgish: “Zottegem”
- Macedonian: “Зотегем”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Zottegem”
- Norwegian: “Zottegem”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Zottegem”
- Persian: “زتژم”
- Polish: “Zottegem”
- Portuguese: “Zottegem”
- Romanian: “Zottegem”
- Russian: “Зоттегем”
- Slovak: “Zottegem”
- Slovenian: “Zottegem”
- Spanish: “Zottegem”
- Swedish: “Zottegem”
- Turkish: “Zottegem”
- Urdu: “زوٹے گیم”
- Vietnamese: “Zottegem”
- Vlaams: “Zottegem”
- Volapük: “Zottegem”
- Waray (Philippines): “Zottegem”
- Zeeuws: “Zottegem”
- “Zottegem”
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