Zwijndrecht
Zwijndrecht is a former municipality located in the Flemish province of East Flanders, in Belgium.
Zwijndrecht is a former municipality located in the Flemish province of East Flanders, in Belgium. On 1 January 2025, it fused with the municipalities of Beveren and Kruibeke to form the new municipality of Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht, which resulted in it moving from the province of Antwerp to that of East Flanders. As well as Zwijndrecht proper, the former municipality includes the village of Burcht. In 2021, Zwijndrecht had a total population of 19,263.
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Worth seeing in and around Zwijndrecht
5 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.
- 01M HKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp is the contemporary art museum of the city of Antwerp, Belgium. Its current director is Bart de Baere.
4 km · art museum in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 02FOMU Photo Museum Antwerp
Fotomuseum Antwerp, also known as FOMU, is a museum of photography in Antwerp, Belgium.
3.9 km · photography museum in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 03Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk
The Church of Our Lady is a Roman Catholic parish church in Melsele, in the municipality of Beveren, in East Flanders, Belgium. It is a registered heritage site.
3.6 km · church in Melsele, Belgium · Wikipedia - 04Chicagoblok
The Chicagoblok is a block of flats in the district of Linkeroever, Antwerp.
3.5 km · building in Antwerp, Belgium · Wikipedia - 052021 Antwerp school building collapse
On 18 June 2021, a building collapse occurred at a school construction site in Antwerp, Belgium. Five construction workers were killed and 20 more wounded.
3.7 km · fatal building collapse · Wikipedia
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Getting to Zwijndrecht
- Airports
- Brussels (BRU), 37 km · Eindhoven (EIN), 77 km · Rotterdam The Hague (RTM), 83 km
- Stations
- Antwerpen-Linkeroever railway station, 1.8 km
- Eindhoven → Zwijndrecht72 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · €9–13
- Rotterdam → Zwijndrecht16 km · quickest by road, 34 min · €2–2.5
- Maastricht → Zwijndrecht130 km · quickest by road, 2h 46m · €18–26
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Zwijndrecht
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 Zwijndrecht. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are some regular, but mostly seasonal flights to various popular holiday destinations in Southern Europe, Morocco and Turkey, as well as private and chartered (business) aviation.
- Get inFrom the United Kingdom: take your bike on the ferry from Dover to Dunkerque (France, 20 km from the Belgian border, from the ferry port is actually over 30 km) and follow the coastal road from there until you reach De Panne (Belgium).
- Go nextSome of the more popular destinations that can be visited on a day trip from Antwerp are: Bruges (Brugge) — Very nice medieval town.
- Go nextThe train ride is pretty long (sometimes over two hours) making it less easy for a day trip.
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Next door to Zwijndrecht
Zwijndrecht is 5 km from Antwerp, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrechtmunicipality in East Flanders, Belgium3.9 km