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Lier
Geography
Country	Belgium
Community	Flemish Community
Region	Flemish Region
Province	Antwerp
Arrondissement	Mechelen
Coordinates	51°07′N, 04°35′E
Area	49.70 km²
Population (Source: NIS)
Population – Males – Females - Density	33,272 (01/01/2006) 48.52% 51.48% 669 inhab./km²
Economy
Unemployment rate	7.92% (01/01/2006)
Mean annual income	14,419 €/pers. (2003)
Government
Mayor	Marleen Vanderpoorten (VLD)
Governing parties	VLD, CD&V/N-VA, Lier Leeft, Lier&Ko
Other information
Postal codes	2500
Area codes	03, 015
Web address	www.lier.be

Lier (French: Lierre) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality comprises the city of Lier proper and the village of Koningshooikt. On January 1, 2006 Lier had a total population of 33,272. The total area is 49.70 km² which gives a population density of 669 inhabitants per km². Image File history File links RedDot. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This is an alphabetical list of countries of the world, including independent states (both those that are internationally recognised and generally unrecognised), inhabited dependent territories and areas of special sovereignty. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Belgium_(civil). ... Belgium is a federal state and is composed of three communities, three regions, and four linguistic regions. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Flanders. ... the Flemish community has jurisdiction over Flanders and over the Dutch language institutions in Brussels. ... Belgium is a federal state and is composed of three communities, three regions, and four linguistic regions. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Flanders. ... The Flemish region is one of the three official regions of the Kingdom of Belgium (alongside the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region). ... Belgium is a federal state and is composed of three communities, three regions, and four linguistic regions. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Antwerp. ... Antwerp is the northernmost province of Flanders and of Belgium. ... This is a list of Belgian administrative arrondissements or districts. ... The Arrondissement of Mechelen (Dutch: ; French: ) is one of the three administrative arrondissements in the Province of Antwerp, Belgium. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... Area is a physical quantity expressing the size of a part of a surface. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Statistics Belgium is the main official statistical institution in Belgian offering a large choice of figures. ... Population density by country, 2006 Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning larger, greater) is the modern title of the highest ranking municipal officer. ... A coalition is an alliance among entities, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest. ... VLD may refer to: Ventilated Linear Dynamic Flemish Liberals and Democrats Category: ... Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V) (Christian Democratic and Flemish) is a political party in Belgium, formerly called Christelijke Volkspartij (CVP) (Christian Peoples Party). ... The Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (New-Flemish Alliance) is a Belgian political party, founded in the autumn of 2001. ... This is a list of postal codes for Belgium. ... A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating telephone number ranges to countries, regions, areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks such as mobile phone networks. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them. ... Antwerp is the northernmost province of Flanders and of Belgium. ... Koningshooikt is a village that since 1977 creates a municipality with Lier in the Belgian province of Antwerp. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...

Lier is known for its beers 'Caves', 'St. Gummarus' and the pastry 'Lierse vlaaikes'. It is also home to Van Hool, one of the largest manufacturers of buses and coaches. Caves is a dark Belgian beer, available around the cities of Lier and Ghent. ... Van Hool NV is a Belgian coachbuilder and manufacturer of buses, coaches and trailers. ...

Football clubs Lierse S.K. (first division) and K. Lyra T.S.V. (promotion) are based in Lier. Actually, Lyra is the Latin name for Lier. A football team is the collective name given to a number of players who play together in a football game, be it association football (soccer), rugby, Australian football, American football, Gaelic football, or other version of football. ... K. Lierse S.K. is a Belgian football club, from the town of Lier in the Antwerp province. ... The Belgian First Division, also known as Jupiler League (for sponsorship reasons), is the top competition in Belgian football (soccer). ... Belgian Promotion is the lowest nationwide division in Belgian football. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...

The patron saint of Lier is St. Gummarus Saint Quentin is the patron saint of locksmiths and is also invoked against coughs and sneezes. ... Saint Gummarus was the son Lord of Emblem. ...

Places of interest

St. Gummarus Church

• The St. Gummarus Church, gothic architecture, 14th century.
• The Zimmer tower.
• The Town hall, rococo architecture, 18th century.
• The Beguinage (UNESCO World Heritage Site) and St. Margarite Church, 17th century.
• The Museum Timmermans-Opsomerhuis.

Historical facts: Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1944 × 2592 pixel, file size: 897 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) From Dutch Wikipedia, tower of Sint-Gummarus church in Lier, Belgium Original description: Toren van de Sint-Gummaruskerk in Lier Eigen foto This... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1944 × 2592 pixel, file size: 897 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) From Dutch Wikipedia, tower of Sint-Gummarus church in Lier, Belgium Original description: Toren van de Sint-Gummaruskerk in Lier Eigen foto This... Interior of Cologne Cathedral Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. ... Zimmer tower in Lier, Belgium The Zimmer tower is a tower in Lier, Belgium, and is also known as the Cornelius tower. ... City Hall is a 1996 film directed by Harold Becker. ... North side of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo - carriage courtyard: all the stucco details sparkled with gold until 1773, when Catherine II had gilding replaced with olive drab paint. ... A Béguinage is a collection of small buidlings used by Beguines, which were several lay sisterhoods of the Roman Catholic Church, founded in the 13th century in the Netherlands, of religious women who sought to serve god without retiring from the world. ... UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established in 1945. ... A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State...

• Lier was in 1496 the scene of a very important marriage in European history, when Philip the Handsome, son of Maximilian of Austria, got married to Joanna of Castile. The son born out of this marriage, Charles V (born in Ghent, 1500), would later rule over the combined Austrian & Spanish empires.

Philip I of Castile Joanna of Castile Philip the Handsome redirects here. ... Portrait by Albrecht Dürer, 1519 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). ... Joanna of Castile Joanna (Spanish: Juana) (November 6, 1479 – April 12, 1555), called Joanna the Mad (Juana La Loca), Queen regnant of Castile and mother of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, was the second daughter of Ferdinand, king of Aragon, and Isabella, queen of Castile, and was born at... Charles V (24 February 1500 - 21 September 1558) was ruler of the Burgundian territories (1506-1555), King of Spain (1516-1556), King of Naples and Sicily (1516-1554), Archduke of Austria (1519-1521), King of the Romans (or German King), (1519-1556 but did not formally abdicate until 1558) and... Geography Country Belgium Community Flemish Community Region Flemish Region Province East Flanders Arrondissement Ghent Coordinates Area 156. ...

Nightlife in the city of Lier

• Lier is a very famous nightlife centre in flanders. The discotheques are known for even as far as The Netherlands. The most important ones are Illusion or La Rocca. Cafés in Lier are used as bases to start your night. the cafés are located inside the city, and most of all around the zimmerplein, like Banana's and 't swingcafé.

Famous Lier people

• Anton Bergmann, lawyer and writer
• Cornelis de Bie, lawyer and writer
• Jan Ceulemans, football player
• Jean-Baptist David, kanunnik and founder of the Davidsfonds
• Patrick Dewael, politician, former Minister-President of Flanders
• Isidoor Opsomer, painter
• Felix Timmermans, Flemish writer and painter
• Lodewijck Van Boeckel, ornamental smith
• Herman Van Breda, founder of the Husserl archive
• Herman Vanderpoorten, politician (1922-1984)

Anton Bergmann (Lier, 29 June 1835-Lier, 21 January 1874) was a Belgian writer and a liberal Flemish activist. ... Cornelis de Bie by Gonzalez Coques Cornelis de Bie (February 10, 1627, Lier, Belgium - 1715(?), Lier, Belgium) was a Belgian poet, rhetorician, jurist and minor politician. ... Jan Ceulemans (born February 28, 1957 in Lier, Belgium) was a Belgian football player, and became the nations most capped player with his 96 caps. ... Jean-Baptist David (January 25, 1801 – March 24, 1866) was a kanunnik and professor Dutch and history at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. ... The Davidsfonds is a Catholic organisation in Flanders, Belgium with the purpose of promoting the Flemisch culture in the areas of : literature, history and art. ... Patrick Dewael (born 13 October 1955, Lier), is a liberal Belgian politician. ... This is a list of Minister-Presidents (prime ministers) of Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium. ... Leopold Maximiliaan Felix Timmermans (July 5, 1886 – January 24, 1947) is the most translated author of Flanders. ... Herman Leo Van Breda (born Leo Marie Karel) (28 February 1911, Lier, Belgium – 4 March 1974, Leuven) was a Franciscan, philosopher and founder of the Husserl archives at the Higher Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. ... Herman Vanderpoorten (Lier 25 August 1922- 3 September 1984) was a Belgian liberal politician. ...

External links

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Lier, Belgium

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• Lier.tk

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	Municipalities in the Province of Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium
Antwerp: Aartselaar | Antwerp | Boechout | Boom | Borsbeek | Brasschaat | Brecht | Edegem | Essen | Hemiksem | Hove | Kalmthout | Kapellen | Kontich | Lint | Malle | Mortsel | Niel | Ranst | Rumst | Schelle | Schilde | Schoten | Stabroek | Wijnegem | Wommelgem | Wuustwezel | Zandhoven | Zoersel | Zwijndrecht |
Mechelen: Berlaar | Bonheiden | Bornem | Duffel | Heist-op-den-Berg | Lier | Mechelen | Nijlen | Putte | Puurs | Sint-Amands | Sint-Katelijne-Waver | Willebroek
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