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Fort Breendonk

military fort which served as a Nazi prison camp in Willebroek, Belgium
Landmark or Historic Building Fort Q700580

Facts

21 properties

Designation

Instance of
fort
Heritage designation
beschermd monument[14]

Location

Country
Belgium[3]
Location
Breendonk[7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.056°, 4.341°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Willebroek[2]
Postal code
2830[8]
Street address
Brandstraat 57[19]

Period and style

Inception
1906[11]
More facts +12
Owned by
Belgium[5]
Official website
www.breendonk.be[13]
Part of
national redoubt of Belgium[9]
Has use
Nazi concentration camp
Short name
Breendonk[17]
Commissioned by
Belgian Armed Forces[4]
Named after
Breendonk[6]
Native label
Fort van Breendonk[16]
Occupant
Breendonk Memorial, War Heritage Institute[10]
Official name
Fort van Willebroeck, Fort van Breendonck, SS-Auffanglager Breendonk, Fort van Breendonk[15]
Participated in conflict
World War II[12]
Permanent duplicated item
Breendonk concentration camp[18]
🏷️ Also known as
en SS-Auffanglager Breendonk en Fort Breendonk cs Fort Breendonck cs pevnost Breendonk de SS-Auffanglager Breendonk el Φρούριο Μπρέεντονκ es Fuerte de Breendonk fa دژ بریندونک fr fort de Breendonk fr SS-Auffanglager Breendonk he מבצר ברנדונק ja ブレーンドンク収容所 ja ブレーンドンク強制収容所 ja ブレーンドンク砦 ja ブレーンドンク要塞 nl Fort van Breendonk nl SS-Auffanglager Breendonk pt Forte Breendonk ru Бреендонк ru Форт Бреендонк
🔖 Identifiers · 19
ISNI
0000000088169185
VIAF cluster ID
49147965650884080465
Library of Congress Authorities ID
no96068531
GND ID
4430393-2
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Fort Breendonk entrance (DSCF0597).jpg ↗
Atlas Obscura place ID
fort-breendonk
Babelio author ID
256450
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
15089234j
Facebook username
vriendenfortbreendonk
FactGrid item ID
Vinca
Flemish Heritage Object ID
1730
Freebase ID
/m/046njl
Show all 19 identifiers +7
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7247768
IdRef ID
088590941
OpenStreetMap relation ID
13266656
Topic's main category
Category:Breendonk prison camp
Tripadvisor ID
1806804
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["HistoricalSite", "FortBreendonk::jzx73"]
Yale LUX ID
place/0f301925-8a82-40ab-b7f6-883e5bea2728

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🔗 Connections
People who died here 3
Julien Lehouck, Paul Hoornaert, Todor Angelov
Commissioned by 1
Belgian Armed Forces
Country 1
Belgium
FactGrid item ID 1
Vinca
Has use 1
Nazi concentration camp
Instance of 1
fort
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Willebroek
Location 1
Breendonk
Named after 1
Breendonk
Occupant 1
War Heritage Institute
Owned by 1
Belgium
Part of 1
national redoubt of Belgium
Significant event 1
World War II
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Summary

Fort Breendonk is a fort[1].

Related Entities

Belgium War Heritage Institute

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . erfgoedkaart.be. erfgoedkaart.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . erfgoedkaart.be. erfgoedkaart.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . erfgoedkaart.be. erfgoedkaart.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. Retrieved . inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . fortbreendonk.be. Retrieved . fortbreendonk.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . erfgoedkaart.be. erfgoedkaart.be. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · ~2026-54282-48 · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Atlas Obscura place ID → fort-breendonk
    "Created claim: Atlas Obscura place ID: fort-breendonk"
  2. 19w ago · Vicarage · 2026-07-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Short name → Breendonk
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #39448"
  3. 27w ago · Vicarage · 2026-05-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → fort
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Willebroek
    Part of → national redoubt of Belgium
    Has use → Nazi concentration camp
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #30691: Fort Breendonk World War II"
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