What is "lommel"

Lommel is a municipality and a city in the Belgian province of Limburg. The Kempen city has about 33,000 inhabitants and is part of the electoral district and the judicial district Lommel Neerpelt.

Besides residential town of Lommel also has a number of nature reserves, such as the nature reserve De Watering, the Lommel Sahara, and numerous forests and heathlands. Lommel is the third shopping city in Belgian Limburg with a commercial and shopping center De Singel. Importantly, the silver sand that is mined here for the benefit of the glass industry. Some sand mining quarries are transformed into nature reserves and recreational areas, including Lommel Sahara.

The city of Lommel is the watershed of the basins of the Scheldt, and Meuse, and within these basins Nete Dommel respectively.

Lommel is a municipality in Belgium.

Lommel may also refer to:

• Eugen von Lommel (1837-1899), German physicist
  • Lommel function, a physics function introduced by Eugen von Lommel
  • Lommel polynomial, a polynomial introduced by Eugen von Lommel
• Léon Lommel (1893-1978), Luxembourgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
• Pim van Lommel (born 1943), Dutch cardiologist and scientist
• Ulli Lommel (born 1944), German actor and director