Bergeijk
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mayor | Arinda Callewaert-de Groot ( CDA ) |
Seat of the municipality | Bergeijk |
Area - land - water |
101.75 km 2 101 km 2 0.75 km 2 |
CBS code | 1724 |
Residents | 18,516 (Jan 31, 2019) |
Population density | 182 inhabitants / km 2 |
Coordinates | 51 ° 19 ′ N , 5 ° 22 ′ E |
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prefix | 040, 0497 |
Postcodes | 5561, 5563, 5571, 5575 |
Website | Homepage of Bergeijk |
Bergeijk or Bergeyk ( municipality in the Netherlands , province of Noord-Brabant . It has 18,516 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2019). Their total area is 101.75 km². The municipality includes the villages Bergeijk, Luyksgestel, Riethoven and Westerhoven .
) is aThe municipality is located between Eindhoven and Lommel (Belgium).
Agriculture and tourism are the main sources of income. There are also commuters living in Bergeijk who work in the neighboring municipality of Eindhoven to the north.
The Ständermühle (open on Saturdays) as well as the widespread forest and heather areas, in which a vintage car meeting dedicated to pre-war tractors takes place, are important for tourism.
history
Before the French Revolution, Luyksgestel belonged to the Principality of Liège and did not come to the Netherlands until 1816 . The other places, traditionally farming villages, shared the fate of North Brabant, so that the Catholics were not allowed to practice their religion freely between 1648 and 1793 : They went to mass abroad (Luyksgestel). In the 18th and 19th centuries, many of the inhabitants of these villages earned a living as peddlers with copper pots and wigs. In the local dialect they were called teuten .
Westerhoven has been part of the Bergeijk municipality for several years. Every year many thousands of tourists from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and many other countries find their way to Westerhoven because of Center Parcs' De Kempervennen bungalow park . Here you can eat in many restaurants, swim in a large subtropical swimming pool, ski all year round on real snow and water ski on the large lakes. Westerhoven was already a popular settlement place in the prehistory. Hunters settled on the banks of the Keersop and Beekloop rivers. De Heuvel, the connection route to the neighboring village of Riethoven, was laid out in Roman times. Franconian pottery was found during excavations at what was then Haverhof. The Valentinus Chapel on Loverensedijk was built after the Second World War as a memorial chapel on the remains of a medieval chapel. In the well next to the chapel, the water level is always higher than the groundwater. The water is said to have a beneficial effect on skin diseases. Every year on February 14th (Valentine's Day) there is an evening pilgrimage from St. Servatius Church to the chapel. Large forest and heathland areas invite you to go hiking and cycling at any time of the year. There are resting places everywhere, not least in the cozy villages in the FB area.
politics
The Christian Democratic electoral list won the last local election on March 21, 2018 with over 40 percent. You are part of the coalition with the conservative-liberal electoral list in the 2018–2022 legislative period .
Municipal council
The municipal council has been formed as follows since 1982:
Political party | Seats | ||||||||||
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1982 | 1986 | 1990 | 1994 | 1996 a | 1999 | 2002 | 2006 | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | |
CDA | 4th | 4th | 5 | 3 | 6th | 6th | 6th | 8th | 8th | 9 | 7th |
Local partij Bergeijk b | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | 4th | 4th | 4th | 4th |
GroenLinks | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4th |
PvdA | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | |
PPR | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
VVD | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Dorps concerns | - | - | - | - | 5 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - |
Key point | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
ID-Bergeijk c | - | - | 5 | 4th | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
Democratic Party '94 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Bergeijk in Raad en Streek | 5 | 4th | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Samenwerking '74 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Inspraak en Democratie '86 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
total | 13 | 13 | 15th | 15th | 17th | 17th | 17th | 17th | 17th | 17th | 17th |
- Remarks
College of Mayors and Aldermen
The following people belong to the College van burgemeester en wethouders of the Bergeijk municipality:
- mayor
- Arinda Callewaert-de Groot ( CDA ; took office: January 8, 2016)
- Alderman
- Mathijs Kuijken (CDA)
- Stef Luijten (CDA)
- Manon Theuws ( VVD )
- Community Secretary
- Wim Wouters
Personalities
- Harrie Lavreysen (* 1997), cyclist, born in Luyksgestel
Web links
- Website of the municipality (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
- ↑ Coality agreement "Samen Doen" CDA - VVD, period 2018 - 2022. In: bergeijk.nl. Gemeente Bergeijk, April 26, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 (Dutch).
- ↑ a b Results of the local elections: 1982–2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on December 18, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Samstelling college van B&W . In: bergeijk.nl . Gemeente Bergeijk, accessed December 18, 2018 (Dutch)