Leeuwergem is a village belonging to the municipality of

Zottegem Zottegem (, Sotteghem and Sottegem in older English and French language sources) is a municipality located in Belgium and more particularly in Flanders, in the province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Zottegem proper and ...

. It is located on the

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, in the

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and

Flemish Ardennes The Flemish Ardennes (Dutch: ''Vlaamse Ardennen'') is an informal name given to a hilly region in the south of the province of East Flanders, Belgium. Highest summit is the Hotondberg (145 m). Main characteristics of the region are rural hilly lan ...

, which is part of the hilly southern part of the

East Flanders , native_name_lang = , settlement_type = Province of Belgium , image_flag = Flag of Oost-Vlaanderen.svg , flag_size = , image_shield = Wapen van O ...

province,

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. Leeuwergem used to be part of the ''

heerlijkheid A ''heerlijkheid'' (a Dutch word; pl. ''heerlijkheden''; also called ''heerschap''; Latin: ''Dominium'') was a landed estate that served as the lowest administrative and judicial unit in rural areas in the Dutch-speaking Low Countries before 1800. ...

'' of Zottegem. From 1271 onwards, it formed a ''heerlijkheid'' with Massemen. It was an independent municipality until 1970, when it was merged into Zottegem. Leeuwergem and the neighbouring village of

Elene ''Elene'' is a poem in Old English, that is sometimes known as ''Saint Helena Finds the True Cross''. It was translated from a Latin text and is the longest of Cynewulf's four signed poems. It is the last of six poems appearing in the Vercelli man ...

host the 18th century Leeuwergem Castle domain, a private estate of 32 hectares.Koenraad DE WOLF and Ignace DE TEMMERMAN, ''Het parkdomein van Leeuwergem: een historische reconstructie'', in "Monumenten en Landschappen", bimonthly of the Ministry of Flanders, Division of Monuments and Landscapes, edition 19/3, Brussels, May–June 2000, pp. 6-27.

Gallery

File:Sint-Amanduskerk, Leeuwergem 03.jpg, View on the St Amandus Church File:Zottegem Leeuwergem Bosstraat 60 Welkomstlindes (1) - 191060 - onroerenderfgoed.jpg, Farm in Leeuwergem File:Zottegem Leeuwergem Gentse Steenweg Zevensacramentenboom (1) - 188595 - onroerenderfgoed.jpg, Seven sacraments tree File:Zottegem Leeuwergem Bosstraat Leilinden (3) - 191063 - onroerenderfgoed.jpg, House in Leeuwergem

References

External links

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Webpage about Leeuwergem Castle at Internet Archives
Zottegem Populated places in East Flanders {{EastFlanders-geo-stub