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Ekeren was a distinct municipality with its own town hall, mayor, and city council until 1983, when most of it, along with 8 other municipalities was merged into the city of Antwerp. In 2000 the Antwerp city council initiated additional district councils with responsibilities including sports, culture, youth and elderly people.
Antwerp's City Hall, c. 1609–1706 In the 16th century, Antwerp became one of the busiest trading ports and most prosperous cities in Northern Europe.The municipal authorities wished to replace the city's small medieval City Hall with a more imposing structure befitting the prosperity of the great port city.
Ekeren is a railway station in the town of Ekeren, Antwerp, Belgium. The station opened on 3 July 1854 on the Antwerp–Lage Zwaluwe railway , known in Belgium as Line 12. Train services
Around the year 600, the Franks started colonizing the area near the local Saint-Bartholomew's Church, which was the highest point of Merksem at the time. In 750, the Scheldt river finally started settling itself into its current river bed, which resulted in parts of Merksem becoming peat bog (a type of wetland).
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Bachir Boumaaza (born 1980), known by his pseudonym Athene, gaming social activist and internet personality; Guillaume Geefs (1805–1883), sculptor; Floris Jespers (1889–1965), painter
The Battle of Ekeren, which took place on 30 June 1703, was a battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. A Bourbon army of around 24,000 men, consisting of troops from France , Spain and Cologne , surrounded a smaller Dutch force of 12,000 men, which however managed to break out and retire to safety.
A statue of King Leopold II of the Belgians was installed in Ekeren, Flanders, Belgium, until 2020. [1] The statue was designed by Belgian sculptor Joseph Ducaju, made of sandstone from Bad Bentheim, and was erected in 1873, eight years into Leopold's reign, as the first statue to commemorate him as king. [2]