Oud-Turnhout

Oud-Turnhout is a municipality located within the Belgian province of Antwerp. The municipality handiest incorporates the city of Oud-Turnhout right. On January 1, 2006 Oud-Turnhout had a total populace of 12,653. The total region is 38.80 km² which offers a population density of 326 population according to km². There are three parishes: Zwaneven inside the east, St. Bavo in the centre and Oosthoven in the North. Zwaneven is inside the upmarket residential area known as "De Lint", where many Dutch human beings live. Most of the Dutch people in the beginning moved to Zwaneven to flee high taxes and strict building policies within the Netherlands.

Houses right here are easily priced €750,000 and over. In the northern part of the village "The Liereman" is one in all Flanders' biggest nature reserves. During excavations on the Bentel industrial estate in 2011 a grave pit with cremated bones and polished artefacts in flint from the Middle Neolithic 4th millennium BC turned into found. It is a unique discovery, because very few lines from that period were discovered within the Kempen.