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Sint-Mariaburg, Antwerp — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Sint-Mariaburg is a planned residential quarter of north-western Antwerp, cut in two by the Kapelsesteenweg between Ekeren and Brasschaat.
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Where to stay in Sint-Mariaburg
How the choice of base plays out on the ground.
One road settles it: the Kapelsesteenweg has separated the Ekeren half of Sint-Mariaburg from the Brasschaat half since the quarter was first laid out, and rooms fall on one side of it or the other. The Ekeren half holds the listed shop-house at Leopoldlei 116 and the terraces around it. Both halves are residential.
A stay on the Brasschaat side sits nearer the modernist pair on the Frilinglei and the workers' houses at Bredabaan 233.
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The Ekeren half of the quarter
Rooms on the Ekeren side of the Kapelsesteenweg sit among the terraces that carry the listed shop-house at Leopoldlei 116. Lodging is scarce in this area; reserve in advance.Find hotels in The Ekeren half of the quartertravellers drawn to the modernist frontages of the FrilingleiThe Brasschaat half of the quarter
The Brasschaat side of the Kapelsesteenweg carries the modernist pair on the Frilinglei and the listed workers' houses at Bredabaan 233. Few places to stay nearby — book ahead.Find hotels in The Brasschaat half of the quarterHotel 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
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Churches & Religious Sites
6- Heilig Hart van Jezuskerk Heritage
- Sint-Jozefskerk Heritage
- Sint-Jacobus de Meerderekerk Heritage
- Sint-Vincentiuskerk Heritage
- Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Onbevlekt-Ontvangenkerk Heritage
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- Sint-Theresia van het Kind Jezuskerk Heritage
Landmarks & Notable Places
8- Arbeiderswoning aan Pastoor Goetschalckxstraat 33 Heritage
- Burgerhuis aan Fortuinstraat_EK 28 Heritage
- Burgerhuis van 1909 aan Fortuinstraat_EK 33 Heritage
- Burgerwoning aan Prinshoeveweg 32 Heritage
- Drie arbeiderswoningen aan Bredabaan 223-225, 233 Heritage
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- Gekoppelde burgerhuizen in art-decostijl aan Veltwijcklaan 283-285 Heritage
- Hovenierswoning aan Geestenspoor 89 Heritage
- Huis Onze Wensch Heritage
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About Sint-Mariaburg
What are the main landmarks in Sint-Mariaburg?
Sint-Mariaburg keeps houses rather than monuments. Its protected buildings are a shop-house at Leopoldlei 116, workers' houses on the Bredabaan, a late-modern architect's house at Herautenlaan 11 and a modernist pair on the Frilinglei. Two churches stand among them, the Sint-Jozefskerk and the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Fatimakerk.
Nothing here was built to be visited, which is why the streets still read as one planned quarter rather than a stretch of ordinary suburb.
What is the history of Sint-Mariaburg?
The quarter arrived as a plan, not as a village that spread. Its ground lay from the beginning across two municipalities, Ekeren and Brasschaat, and the Kapelsesteenweg has marked the boundary between the two halves of Sint-Mariaburg ever since. Building filled in around that road.
The register dates one townhouse on the Fortuinstraat to 1909, while the modernist pair on the Frilinglei and the architect's house on the Herautenlaan belong to the decades of building that followed.
Where is Sint-Mariaburg?
Sint-Mariaburg sits in the north-western reach of Antwerp, with its Ekeren half on one side of the Kapelsesteenweg and its Brasschaat half on the other.
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What is the best area to stay in Sint-Mariaburg?
The Ekeren half of the quarter: stays that want the Leopoldlei shop-house terraces at the door. The Brasschaat half of the quarter: travellers drawn to the modernist frontages of the Frilinglei.
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Updated October 2026