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Bloemekenswijk, Gent — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Bloemekenswijk carries the flower street names that gave it its own, north of the Gent city centre on the edge of Wondelgem and Mariakerke.
About Bloemekenswijk
Where to stay in Bloemekenswijk
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Bloemekenswijk is a place to rent a flat rather than book a room, and the hotel desks stay south of it in Gent's centre. Francisco Ferrerlaan and Frans Van Ryhovelaan run the length of the district and carry the buses down toward the belfry, while the Edmond van Beverenplein holds the market and most of what is open in the evening. The flower streets behind them are quiet.
Come for Museum Dr. Guislain.
About Bloemekenswijk
What are the main landmarks in Bloemekenswijk?
Museum Dr. Guislain occupies the asylum it is named for, at Jozef Guislainstraat 43. The Guislaingesticht opened in the 1850s when this was still farmland north of Gent, and the museum inside it shows the history of psychiatry along with work made by patients. Sint-Vincentiuskerk went up after the First World War.
The Westerbegraafplaats followed in the 1860s.
What is the history of Bloemekenswijk?
Flowers named the streets. Anjelierstraat, Chrysantstraat and Clematisstraat sit beside Boekweitstraat, Hoppestraat and Maïsstraat, which is the whole record of what this ground was before Gent reached it. A Wondelgem place of worship stood out here in the twelfth century.
The Verbindingsvaart was cut in 1863 between the Brugse Vaart and the Voorhaven, tying the district to the canal traffic running north toward Terneuzen.
Where is Bloemekenswijk?
The district lies north of the Gent city centre, meeting Wondelgem and Mariakerke at its outer edge.
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Updated September 2026