Horebeke
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Horebeke is a municipality
Municipality
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 located in the Belgian
Belgium
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 province of East Flanders
East Flanders
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. The municipality comprises the towns of Sint-Kornelis-Horebeke and Sint-Maria-Horebeke. On January 1, 2006 Horebeke had a total population of 2,004. The total area is 11.20 km² which gives a population density
Population density
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 of 179 inhabitants per km².

The Corsele parish in Sint-Maria-Horebeke has a Protestant church which dates from 1872 and a museum dedicated to Abraham Hans (the former Protestant village teacher and story teller) built in 1812 as a parish school. There have been Protestants in Sint-Maria-Horebeke since the Reformation
Protestant Reformation
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 of the 16th century.

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