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Oostakker, Gent — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Oostakker is a sub-municipality of Gent in East Flanders, north-east of the city centre, with the Oostakker Basilica as its landmark.
About Oostakker
Where to stay in Oostakker
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Most visitors to Oostakker book inside Gent and ride out for the day, because the deelgemeente kept its parish shape when the city absorbed it in 1977 and the beds stayed in the older core. Sint-Amandsberg is the useful middle. Detached from Oostakker in 1872, it lies between the Oostakker Basilica and the Gent centre, which makes it the compromise for anyone wanting both. Stay in Oostakker itself only if the Basilica is your reason for coming.
About Oostakker
What are the main landmarks in Oostakker?
The Oostakker Basilica outranks the rest. Around it the parish churches multiply, with Sint-Amanduskerk, Sint-Bernadettekerk, Sint-Antonius Abtkerk, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Geboortekerk and the Goddelijke Voorzienigheidkerk each serving a corner of what stayed an independent municipality until 1977. Woning Scheeplos is the exception, the one named landmark here that is not a church.
Six churches crowd barely ten square kilometres of Oostakker.
What is the history of Oostakker?
Oostakker was its own municipality, and it lost ground piece by piece: Sint-Amandsberg was detached in 1872, then parcels went to Gent in 1900, in 1920 and again in 1927. Oostakker's independence ended in 1977. On the first day of that year Gent absorbed the municipality outright, closing a slow century in which annexation after annexation had already pared the territory back.
Oostakker kept the name, and Sint-Amandsberg never came back.
Where is Oostakker?
Oostakker covers just over ten square kilometres north-east of the Gent city centre, bordering Lochristi, Desteldonk, Sint-Amandsberg and the port of Gent.
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Updated September 2026