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Donk, Antwerp — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Donk, also Ekeren-Donk, is a housing quarter of the Ekeren district in north-eastern Antwerp, its heritage list made almost wholly of houses.
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Where to stay in Donk
Where the beds are, and what that means for the visit.
The Veltwijcklaan carries no hotel sign. Ekeren keeps almost nothing in the way of beds, so the practical base for a night here is an Antwerp room, with the ride out to Donk short and direct. Longer stays work better.
A rented house on the Prinshoeveweg or off the Kapelsesteenweg puts the Ekeren parishes, the local shops and a straight road into Antwerp within easy reach.
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The Sint-Lambertuskerk parish core
Ekeren's older centre gathers around Sint-Lambertuskerk, with a listed art-deco pair on the Veltwijcklaan standing a few doors from the parish shops. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in The Sint-Lambertuskerk parish corearrivals keeping a car and running into Antwerp along one roadAlong the Kapelsesteenweg
The Kapelsesteenweg is the through-road of Ekeren-Donk, running past low village houses and an art-deco front set among the shopfronts. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in Along the Kapelsesteenwegvisitors treating Donk and Ekeren as a half-day out from a city-centre roomAn Antwerp centre room
Antwerp's own centre holds the hotel stock that Donk has never carried, close enough that the trip out to the Ekeren streets stays a short one.Find hotels in An Antwerp centre roomHotel links are affiliate links: booking through them may earn us a commission, at no extra cost to you. It never affects how places are ranked. How this works
Things to do in and around Antwerp
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Churches & Religious Sites
5- Sint-Lambertuskerk Heritage
- Heilig Hart van Jezuskerk Heritage
- Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Zeven Smartenkerk Heritage
- Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Onbevlekt-Ontvangenkerk Heritage
- Sint-Theresia van het Kind Jezuskerk Heritage
Castles & Historic Sites
1- Monument voor de bemanning van de Lancaster ED810
Landmarks & Notable Places
8- Arbeiderswoning aan Pastoor Goetschalckxstraat 33 Heritage
- Burgerhuis aan Fortuinstraat_EK 28 Heritage
- Burgerwoning aan Prinshoeveweg 32 Heritage
- Drie arbeiderswoningen aan Bredabaan 223-225, 233 Heritage
- Gekoppelde burgerhuizen in art-decostijl aan Veltwijcklaan 283-285 Heritage
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- Hovenierswoning aan Geestenspoor 89 Heritage
- Huis Onze Wensch Heritage
- Laat-moderne architectenwoning aan Herautenlaan 11 Heritage
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About Donk
What are the main landmarks in Donk?
The record here is a record of houses. Ekeren's protected list runs through Woning Wuyts, Woning Rens and Huis Onze Wensch, past the gardener's cottage at Geestenspoor 89 and a burgerwoning on the Prinshoeveweg, to a late-modern architect's house on the Herautenlaan. Churches punctuate it.
Sint-Lambertuskerk holds the old parish, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Zeven Smartenkerk and Sint-Theresia van het Kind Jezuskerk serve the later streets, and a small Mariakapel marks a roadside. The Monument voor de bemanning van de Lancaster ED810 breaks the pattern, naming an aircrew instead of an architect.
What is the history of Donk?
Donk grew by house rows. The Ekeren list moves from the low village houses at Kapelsesteenweg, through workers' cottages on the Pastoor Goetschalckxstraat, to art-deco fronts on the Veltwijcklaan and a postmodern house on the Laar. Parishes followed the building.
Sint-Theresia van het Kind Jezuskerk carries a dedication no medieval parish could have used, Heilig Hart van Jezuskerk belongs to the same later wave, and Sint-Lambertuskerk carries the oldest dedication of the three. Names like Woning Coerkamp and Woning De Ridder read as families, not institutions.
Where is Donk?
Donk belongs to the Ekeren district on the north-eastern side of Antwerp, and Ekeren itself lies in the north-west of Antwerp province.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Donk?
The Sint-Lambertuskerk parish core: stays that want the Ekeren parish core and its listed house fronts on foot. Along the Kapelsesteenweg: arrivals keeping a car and running into Antwerp along one road. An Antwerp centre room: visitors treating Donk and Ekeren as a half-day out from a city-centre room.
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Updated October 2026