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Hemiksem

Hemiksem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

Hemiksem
Hemiksem · David Coster
The place

Hemiksem is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Hemiksem proper. In 2021, Hemiksem had a total population of 11,722. The total area is 5.44 km2.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hemiksem

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    national redoubt of Belgium

    The National Redoubt refers to a 95 km -long ring of forts around the major port city of Antwerp, Belgium built between 1859 and 1914. By 1914, it consisted of 28 forts arranged in two rings around the city.

    1.7 km · fortress in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kasteel Wissekerke

    The Wissekerke Castle is situated in the village of Bazel of Kruibeke municipality in the East Flanders province of Belgium. Although a castle stood at this site since 10th century, the present castle was largely built in the 15th century with lake, park and a suspension bridge built around the castle.

    3.4 km · castle · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Schoonselhof

    Schoonselhof Cemetery is located in Hoboken, Antwerp, a suburb of Antwerp, Belgium. Schoonselhof Cemetery has an Islamic and Jewish section.

    2.1 km · cemetery in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sorghvliedt Castle

    Sorghvliedt Castle is a building in Belgium with a history dating back to the 16th century. It was originally a farm building called Wickeleynde owned by the merchant Jean Plaquet and his wife Maria Leydeckers.

    2.3 km · castle in Belgium · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Vélodrome d'Anvers Zuremborg

    The Garden City Velodrome was a velodrome located in Antwerp, Belgium. A 400-metre track, it hosted the track cycling events for the 1920 Summer Olympics and the UCI Track Cycling World Championships that year.

    3.5 km · velodrome located in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St. Bernard's Abbey

    St. Bernard's Abbey, Hemiksem, or abbatiae S. Bernardi ad Scaldim, ordinis Cisterciensis, in dioecesi Antverpiensi also known as St.

    2.5 km · monastery · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Hemiksem

Airports
Brussels (BRU), 29 km · Brussels South Charleroi (CRL), 77 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 79 km
  • Charleroi → Hemiksem
    82 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · €10–14
  • Oostende → Hemiksem
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · €13–18
  • Eindhoven → Hemiksem
    86 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · €10–13
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hemiksem

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hemiksem. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in}} {{listing | name | url | address | long | phone | fax | price Located in Oostende, mostly served by charter and freight flights.
  • Get inCalais and Dunkirk (France), a short drive from western Flanders, receive dozens of ferries a day from Dover in England.
  • Get inThe overnight ferries from Hull to Zeebrugge were axed in 2021, though ferries still run from Hull to Rotterdam (Netherlands), which has good road and rail access to northern Flanders.

From Wikivoyage: Flanders, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    240 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    400 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    623 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    629 km
  5. 05
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    773 km

If you know how people move in Hemiksem – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Hemiksem

Hemiksem is 9 km from Antwerp, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Aartselaarmunicipality in Antwerp, Belgium3.2 km
  • Schellemunicipality in Antwerp, Belgium2.2 km
  • Hobokendistrict of Antwerp in Flanders, Belgium2.6 km
  • Wilrijkdistrict of the City of Antwerp, Belgium3 km
  • Bazelsection of the municipality of Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, province of East Flanders, Belgium3.6 km