It is located in the Denderstreek and the Flemish Ardennes, the hilly southern part of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.

With 5,972 residents as of 2000, it forms the largest individual part of the municipality.

The Railway line Aalst-Zottegem-Ronse opened in 1885 with a train station at Nederbrakel which closed in 1963.

[3] In 1917, Dean August Vael prayed that the town would be spared in World War I.

This privately owned park contains the source of mineral water which has been bottled since 1898.