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Hilvarenbeek

Municipality in North Brabant, Netherlands From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Hilvarenbeek (Dutch pronunciation: [ɦɪlˌvaːrə(m)ˈbeːk] ) is a municipality and a town in the south of the Netherlands, along the border with Belgium.

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The biggest tourist attraction is called Beekse Bergen, consisting of a safari park, amusement park/playground, holiday bungalow park, and camping parks.

In the centre of the town the Sint-Petrus'-Banden is a Gothic church from the 14th and 15th centuries. The tower is a highlight of the Kempen Gothic.

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Population centres

The municipality of Hilvarenbeek also includes the following villages with their own churches:

In addition, the following parts were historically separate, but are nowadays more like neighbourhoods:

  • Beerten
  • Driehuizen
  • Dun
  • Gorp
  • Groenstraat
  • Groot Loo
  • Grote Voort
  • Hoog Spul
  • Hoogeind
  • Klein Loo
  • Kleine Voort
  • Laag Spul
  • Rovert
  • Slibbroek
  • Westerwijk

Topography

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Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Hilvarenbeek, June 2015.

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Notable people

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J G Becanus
  • Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519 in Gorp – 1573) physician, linguist, and humanist
  • Martinus Becanus (1563 in Hilvarenbeek – 1624) a Jesuit priest, theologian and controversialist.[4]
  • Jacques Thomassen (born 1945 in Diessen) organizational theorist and academic
  • Henny Vrienten (born 1948 in Hilvarenbeek – 2022) pop artist (Doe Maar) and composer of TV and film scores [5]
  • Annie Abrahams (born 1954 in Hilvarenbeek) performance artist in video installations and the internet
  • Henk Baars (born 1960 in Diessen) cyclo-cross cyclist
  • Ronald van Raak (born 1969 in Hilvarenbeek) politician, non-fiction writer and former academic
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