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Deurne
—  Municipality  —
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LocatieDeurne
Coordinates: 51°27′41″N 5°47′27″E / 51.46139, 5.79083
Country Netherlands
Province North Brabant
Area(2006)
 • Total 118.37 km2 (45.70 sq mi)
 • Land 117.10 km2 (45.21 sq mi)
 • Water 1.27 km2 (0.49 sq mi)
Population (1 January, 2007)
 • Total 31,856
 • Density 272/km2 (700/sq mi)
  Source: CBS, Statline.
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Deurne 'Great Castle' ruin

Great Castle Ruin, Deurne. Facing the "little castle" across the road

Deurne [ˈdʏːr.nə]  (Speaker Icon listen) is a rural municipality and eponymous village in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. Including the villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Neerkant, and Helenaveen, Deurne has a population of almost 32.000 on an area of 118.02 km2.


History[]

First recorded as Durninum (near / by thorns) in a deed of gift from the Frankish Lord Herelaef to bishop Willibrord in 721, Deurne remained a collection of subsistence farming hamlets stretching (North to South) along the Peel peat moor until the 2nd half of the 19th century, when a newly built railroad (Eindhoven - Venlo in 1866) and a canal (Zuid-Willemsvaart canal in 1826) enabled the commercial exploitation of the moor. Although the peat industry did not yield much of a profit in the era of coal powered industries, the cultivation of the newly cleared land, in the 1930s also by forced labour, gave a boost to agriculture, farming, and settlement alike. Today only tiny pieces of this former peat moor remain, some reflooded as mini wetlands, scattered along the fault line that once brought about its very existence.

Coincidentally the very same Anglo Dutch Griendtsveen Peat Moss Litter Company Ltd. that extracted a significant part of the peat in the Peel moved to Thorne (Moorends) South Yorkshire, U.K., [1] where several of its Dutch employees settled as immigrant workers.

Transportation[]

  • Deurne railway station

Culture[]

In 2009 the new "Cultural Centre" (cultureel centrum) opened its doors. It is the Martien van Doorne Cultuur Centrum and serves as a theatre, concert hall, and movie theatre.

External links[]

Klein Kasteel Deurne NL voorzijde B

Klein kasteel Deurne, the 'little castle'

References[]

  1. ^ (National Archives 1893: BT 31/5595/38959)

Coordinates: 51°27′41″N 5°47′27″E / 51.4614, 5.7908


This page uses content from the English language Wikipedia. The original content was at Deurne, North Brabant. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with this Familypedia wiki, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons License.
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