Brecht

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. On January 1, 2006 Brecht had a total population of 26,464. The total area is 90.84 km² which gives a population density of 291 inhabitants per 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. On May 29, 2009, the Noorderkempen station opened in Brecht .

The station is on HSL 4 between the Breda and Antwerp Central stations . Until 2018, only shuttle trains to Antwerp stopped at the station. There was no direct connection to from the Netherlands, but since April 2018 a train runs every hour from Amsterdam via Noorderkempen to Brussels South with a stop at the Brussels National Airport and vice versa.