Bergeijk

This article describes the municipality in the Netherlands. For the Dutch composer and music teacher, see Gilius van Bergeijk .

Bergeijk municipality

flag	coat of arms
province	North Brabant
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 Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′  N , 5 ° 22 ′  E
Important traffic route
prefix	040, 0497
Postcodes	5561, 5563, 5571, 5575
Website	Homepage of Bergeijk

Bergeijk or Bergeyk ( listen ^{? / I} ) is a 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 .

The 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 .

Bergeijk, church (Sint Petruskerk) in the street

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

Local election on March 21, 2018

Turnout: 60.11%

 %

50

40

30th

20th

10

0

42.0

22.9

21.4

13.8

CDA

LPB ^b

GL / PvdA ^c

VVD

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-7.9

-2.4

+7.7

+2.6

CDA

LPB ^b

GL / PvdA ^c

VVD

Remarks:

^b Local Partij Bergeijk

^c GroenLinks / PvdA; the PvdA ran in 2014 without GroenLinks as an independent electoral list

The municipal council has been formed as follows since 1982:

Political party	Seats
	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

^a Due to the incorporation of Luyksgestel, Riethoven and Westerhoven into Bergeijk on January 1, 1997, the municipal council elections took place in 1996.

^b The local Partij Bergeijk emerged from the merger of the local parties Dorpsbelangen, ID-Bergeijk and Kernpunt.

^c ID-Bergeijk emerged from the merger of Inspraak en Democratie '86 and Samenwerking '74.

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

Commons : Bergeijk  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
2. ↑ Coality agreement "Samen Doen" CDA - VVD, period 2018 - 2022. In: bergeijk.nl. Gemeente Bergeijk, April 26, 2018, accessed December 18, 2018 (Dutch). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the local elections: 1982–2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on December 18, 2018 (Dutch)
4. ↑ Samstelling college van B&W . In: bergeijk.nl . Gemeente Bergeijk, accessed December 18, 2018 (Dutch)