Lebbeke is a municipality

Municipality

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 located in the Belgian

Belgium

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 province of East Flanders

East Flanders

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 in the Denderstreek

Denderstreek

The Denderstreek or Denderland is a region in the heart of Belgium. It is named after the river Dender. Though the river stretches over three provinces, Hainaut, East Flanders and Flemish Brabant, the region called after the river is situated in East-Flanders. The Dutch word streek means region....

. The municipality comprises the towns of Denderbelle, Lebbeke proper and Wieze. On January 1, 2006 Lebbeke had a total population of 17,608. The total area is 26.92 km² which gives a population density

Population density

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 of 654 inhabitants per km².
Lebbeke is home to the chocolate factory Callebaut

Callebaut

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.

Events

Metal Female Voices Fest

Metal Female Voices Fest

Metal Female Voices Fest is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Belgium since 2003. It is organized by the Metal Organisation agency. The seventh edition took place at Oktoberhallen in Wieze in the municipality of Lebbeke on October 17 and October 18, 2009.-October 22:*Doro* Leaves' Eyes*...

 is a heavy metal music

Heavy metal music

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 festival held annually in Belgium since 2003.

Current and former inhabitants

• Jean-Marie Pfaff
  Jean-Marie Pfaff
  Jean-Marie Pfaff is a Belgian former football goalkeeper.-Biography:At the age of 16, Pfaff joined K.S.K. Beveren with whom he won a Belgian champions title and a Belgian Cup . The same year, he received the Belgian Golden Shoe...
  
  , soccer player, played 64 times for the Belgian national football team and was born in Lebbeke. He now lives in Brasschaat
  Brasschaat
  Brasschaat is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of Antwerp. The municipality only comprises the town of Brasschaat proper. In November 2006, Brasschaat won the LivCom-Award 2006 for the most liveable municipality in the world....
  
  .
• Frank Vandenbroucke
  Frank Vandenbroucke (cyclist)
  Frank Vandenbroucke , was a Belgian professional road racing cyclist. He was the great hope of Belgian cycling in the 1990s but a remarkable talent which appeared in his adolescence in athletics and then in cycle racing dissipated in a succession of drugs problems, rows with teams, suicide...
  
  , international cyclist.

External links

• Official website - Only available in Dutch
  Dutch language
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