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Oud-Berchem, Antwerp — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Oud-Berchem is the old core of Antwerp's Berchem district, a shopping quarter built along the Grotesteenweg and the Statiestraat.
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Where to stay in Oud-Berchem
The practical side of choosing where to sleep.
Trams 7 and 15 run the Grotesteenweg through the quarter, stopping at De Merode, Driekoningen and Sint-Willibrordus, so a bed along that road keeps central Antwerp within one ride. Shops sit on Statiestraat and Driekoningenstraat. Antwerpen-Berchem station marks the eastern edge, beside the Posthofbrug, and the Berchem part of Zurenborg starts just beyond it.
You trade the tourist streets of the old city for a quarter that does its own shopping, with the Basiliek van het Heilig Hart on the western side.
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Statiestraat
The Driekoningenstraat and Statiestraat shopping axis runs parallel to the Grotesteenweg, and the traders along it work under one name, Het Hart van Berchem.Find hotels in Statiestraatarrivals who would rather step off a tram than book a taxiGrotesteenweg
Tram lines 7 and 15 use the old road through Oud-Berchem, calling at De Merode, Driekoningen and Sint-Willibrordus.Find hotels in Grotesteenwegrail travellers pairing Antwerp with a day out of the cityAntwerpen-Berchem station
The station and the Posthofbrug close the quarter on its eastern side, with the Berchem half of Zurenborg immediately past them.Find hotels in Antwerpen-Berchem stationHotel 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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Museums & Galleries
4- Museum Plantin-Moretus UNESCO
- Rubenshuis Heritage
- Museum Mayer van den Bergh Heritage
- Snijders&Rockox House Heritage
Churches & Religious Sites
6- Carolus Borromeuskerk Heritage
- St. James' Church, Antwerp Heritage
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- Sint-Laurentiuskerk Heritage
- Kapel van het Allerheiligste Sacrament Heritage
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- Brabantsche Olijfberg Heritage
Landmarks & Notable Places
1- Herfst, Winter, Zomer en Lente Heritage
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About Oud-Berchem
What are the main landmarks in Oud-Berchem?
The churches do the work here. The Basiliek van het Heilig Hart stands on the western side, the Sint-Willibrorduskerk is the old parish church that Berchem calls the oude kerk, and the Sint-Hubertuskerk makes the third. Museums sit elsewhere.
The Vlaams Tram- en Autobusmuseum keeps its trams and buses on Diksmuidelaan over in Groenenhoek, while the Rubenshuis, Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp all belong to the old city. Wolvenberg and the Brilschans lie south across the Ring.
What is the history of Oud-Berchem?
Boomgaardstraat remembers a lost stream. The Boomgaardbeek divided Berchem from the Antwerp quarter of Haringrode as far back as the eighth century, in the years of Willibrord and Pepijn van Herstal, and the street now traces what the water once marked. The Berthout family held a castle near Uitbreidingstraat, where the Berchemsepoort and the Willibrordusput also stood.
Koning Albertpark was a gallows field. Generaal Lemanstraat has fixed the western edge of the quarter since 1912, when the boundary moved off Karel Oomstraat.
Where is Oud-Berchem?
Oud-Berchem runs west to Generaal Lemanstraat, south to the Antwerp Ring, and east to Antwerpen-Berchem station, with Haringrode beyond Boomgaardstraat.
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What is the best area to stay in Oud-Berchem?
Statiestraat: stays that want a working shopping street instead of a museum queue. Grotesteenweg: arrivals who would rather step off a tram than book a taxi. Antwerpen-Berchem station: rail travellers pairing Antwerp with a day out of the city.
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Updated October 2026