Anzegem () is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

located in the Belgian province of

West Flanders West Flanders is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium. It is the only coastal Belgian province, facing the North Sea to the northwest. It has land borders with the Dutch province of Zeeland to the northeast, the Flemis ...

. The municipality comprises the towns of Anzegem proper, Gijzelbrechtegem, Ingooigem, Kaster, Tiegem and

Vichte Vichte is a village in the municipality of Anzegem, in the south of West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Coun ...

. On 1 January 2006 Anzegem had a total population of 14,609. The total area is 41.79 km² which gives a population density of 349 inhabitants per km². One of the most famous inhabitants of Anzegem was

Stijn Streuvels Franciscus "Frank" Petrus Maria Lateur (3 October 1871 – 15 August 1969), known as Stijn Streuvels (), was a Flemish Belgian writer. Biography He started writing at a very young age. He was inspired by his uncle, the poet Guido Gezelle. Until ...

, the

Flemish Flemish may refer to: * Flemish, adjective for Flanders, Belgium * Flemish region, one of the three regions of Belgium *Flemish Community, one of the three constitutionally defined language communities of Belgium * Flemish dialects, a Dutch dialec ...

writer who died in Ingooigem in 1969, aged 98. On the night of 16 October 2014, Anzegem's medieval parish church of Saint John the Baptist (''Sint Jan de Doperkerk'' in Dutch) was destroyed in a fire. Anzegem - Sint-Jan-de-Doperkerk 1

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