Nevele

Nevele
Nevele
Municipality
	Landegem
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location of Nevele
	Nevele Location in Belgium Location of Nevele in East Flanders
	Coordinates: 51°02′N 03°33′E / 51.033°N 3.550°E
Country	Belgium
Community	Flemish Community
Region	Flemish Region
Province	East Flanders
Arrondissement	Ghent
Government
• Mayor	Johan Cornelis (CD&V)
• Governing party/ies	CD&V, Nieuw Nevele
Population (2018-01-01)
• Total	12,179
Postal codes	9850
NIS code	44049
Area codes	09
Website	www.deinze.be

Nevele (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈneːvələ]) is a former municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Hansbeke, Landegem, Merendree, Nevele proper, Poesele and Vosselare. On January 1, 2006 Nevele had a total population of 11,217. The total area is 51.89 km² which gives a population density of 216 inhabitants per km².

Effective 1 January 2019, the municipality was merged into Deinze.

Subdivisions

Nevele consists of six deelgemeenten (sub-municipalities).

#	Name	Area
I	Nevele	13,86
II	Hansbeke	9,83
III	Merendree	10,94
IV	Landegem	8,48
V	Poesele	2,52
VI	Vosselare	6,27

Nevele has borders with:

Cyriel Buysse, novelist
Renaat de Rudder: born in Oostakker in 1897, he moved with his parents to Landegem in 1909. In 1914 he volunteered for the Belgian army to fight in the first World War, where he wrote on the physical and moral pain he was suffering, until he died on 12 December 1917.
Rosalie Loveling and Virginie Loveling, writers, aunts of Cyriel Buysse
Leo Lovaert
Monika van Paemel