Melle

Melle is a municipality located inside the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality contains the villages of Gontrode and Melle right. On January 1, 2011, Melle had a total population of 10,873. The overall location is 15.21 km² which offers a populace density of 715 inhabitants in keeping with km². Melle become mentioned in files in 830, although the archeological findings prove the vicinity changed into inhabited lengthy before that date. The call Melle has possible derivations: the Celtic word melina manner "brown water"; the prehistoric name Melinos approach "honey yellow". The village of Melle consists of 3 regions: Melle-Centre,

Melle-Vogelhoek and Gontrode since the fusion in 1976. One of its famous products is the Delirium Tremens beer, bottled by way of the Huyghe brewery. This beer is exported worldwide and was voted "Best beer within the global" in 1998 at the World Beer Championships in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Miss Belgium 2000, Joke van de Velde grew up and went to school in Melle.