Heule is a sub
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
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of the city of
Kortrijk
Kortrijk ( , ; vls, Kortryk or ''Kortrik''; french: Courtrai ; la, Cortoriacum), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray ( ), is a Belgian City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Regio ...
in the Belgian province of
West Flanders
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. The first notion of this settlement date of the year 1111. Heule has a surface of 1169h and has a population of 10,503 (2009). Surrounding villages of Heule are Bissegem, Gullegem, Lendelede and Kuurne. Between Kuurne, Lendelede and Heule there's also the settlement Sente (Saint-Katherine).
Name
It's said that the city's name is derived from the current that runs through Heule, namely the Heulebeek. Another opinion is that it's derived from the words ''geul'' or ''geule'' which is the ditch in which the current flows.
Sights
* In the public garden there's a set of tree rare
baldcypresses (''Taxodium distichum'').
* The Preetjes Molen, the only flax attrition mill in Europe, can be found in Heule.
* Until 2001, the Curiosamuseum founded by
Antoon Vanneste was established in the Peperstraat.
Culture
The popular song 'Tineke van Heule' thanks its name to the village. Every year in the second weekend of September, the Tinekesfeesten are organized in the village. Also the ward Heule-Watermolen organizes these elections of Tineke.
In Heule, the famous Flemish writer
Stijn Streuvels
Stijn Streuvels (3 October 1871, Heule, Kortrijk - 15 August 1969, Ingooigem, Anzegem), born Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur, was a Flemish Belgian writer.
Biography
He started writing at a very young age. He was inspired by his uncle, ...
(Franciscus Petrus Maria (Frank) Lateur) was born on the third of October in the year 1871. A memorial stone was set up in the Kortrijkstraat. Several wards in Heule have got the name of one of his famous works, like
de Vlaschaard, Zomertij, Najaar en Winterland.
Well-known people from Heule
*
Stijn Streuvels
Stijn Streuvels (3 October 1871, Heule, Kortrijk - 15 August 1969, Ingooigem, Anzegem), born Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur, was a Flemish Belgian writer.
Biography
He started writing at a very young age. He was inspired by his uncle, ...
(1871–1969), writer
* Gerard Debaets (1899), cyclist
* Michel en Gaston-Octave Debaets, cyclists and brothers of Gerard Debaets.
* Alois Vansteenkiste (1928–1991), cyclist
* Lucien De Muynck (1931), athlete
*
Lieven Bertels (1971)
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Sub-municipalities of Kortrijk
Populated places in West Flanders