Brecht, Belgium

Brecht is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the towns of Brecht proper, Sint-Job-in-'t-Goor and Sint-Lenaarts. In 2021, Brecht had a total population of 29,809. The total area is 90.84 km2.

Brecht is a fast-growing municipality in the north of the Antwerp province, near the Dutch border. Noorderkempen, a railway station on the HSL 4, opened on 15 June 2009.

Notable people

 * Jan van der Noot (1539–1595), writer and poet, born in Brecht
 * Leonard Lessius (1554–1623), moral theologian, born in Brecht
 * Walter Van Beirendonck (1957–), fashion designer and one of the Antwerp Six
 * Jean Kockerols (1958–), Roman Catholic bishop