Tessenderlo
Sign in to saveTessenderlo (; ) is a former municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg. It is where the three Belgian provinces of Limburg, Flemish Brabant and Antwerp meet at the front gate of the Averbode Abbey. The municipality Tessenderlo encompasses the villages of Tessenderlo proper, Schoot, Engsbergen, Hulst and Berg. On January 1, 2006, Tessenderlo had a total population of 16,811. The total area is 51.35 km2 which gives a population density of 327 inhabitants per km2. The name Tessenderlo means "(the open place in) the forest of the Taxandrians".
Key facts
- Belgium municipality.name
- Tessenderlo
- Belgium municipality.picture
- Tessenderlo train factory.JPG
- Belgium municipality.picture legend
- Chemical plant and rail yard in Tessenderlo
- Belgium municipality.map
- Tessenderlo Limburg Belgium Map.svg
- Belgium municipality.map legend
- Location of Tessenderlo in Limburg
- Belgium municipality.arms
- Blason Tessenderlo.svg
- Belgium municipality.flag
- Tessenderlo vlag.svg
- Belgium municipality.province
- Limburg
- Belgium municipality.arrondissement
- Hasselt
- Belgium municipality.nis
- 71057
- Belgium municipality.mayor
- Karolien Eens (Vooruit-SPiL)
- Belgium municipality.majority
- Vooruit-SPiL, CD&V
- Belgium municipality.postal codes
- 3980
- Belgium municipality.telephone area
- 013
- Belgium municipality.web
- www.tessenderlo.be
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Belgium
- Official name
- Tessenderlo
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Hasselt
- Official language
- Dutch
- Population
- 18514
- Area
- 51.35
- Elevation
- 27
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Body of water
- Albert Canal
- Shares border with
- Scherpenheuvel-Zichem
- Official website
- www.tessenderlo.be
- Image
- Tessenderlo - Sint-Martinuskerk.jpg
- Dialing code
- 013
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2024-12-31
- P13200
- Dubai
- topic's main category
- Category:Tessenderlo
- Commons category
- Tessenderlo
- postal code
- 3980
- native label
- Tessenderlo
- annual number of weddings
- 80
- replaced by
- Tessenderlo-Ham
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +32-13-66-17-15
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Tessenderlo (; ) is a former municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg. It is where the three Belgian provinces of Limburg, Flemish Brabant and Antwerp meet at the front gate of the Averbode Abbey. The municipality Tessenderlo encompasses the villages of Tessenderlo proper, Schoot, Engsbergen, Hulst and Berg. On January 1, 2006, Tessenderlo had a total population of 16,811. The total area is 51.35 km2 which gives a population density of 327 inhabitants per km2. The name Tessenderlo means "(the open place in) the forest of the Taxandrians".
It is along the Albert Canal and the European route E313, the highway between Antwerp and Liège, one of the reasons it was the place for the first Belgian "Industrial Zone of National Importance" in the 1960s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tessenderlo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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