Deurne (North Brabant)

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Deurne municipality
Flag of the municipality of Deurne
flag 		Coat of arms of the municipality of Deurne
coat of arms
province North Brabant North Brabant
mayor Hilko Mak ( CDA )
Seat of the municipality Deurne
Area
 - land
 - water 		118.36  km 2
116.94 km 2
1.42 km 2
CBS code 0762
Residents 32,364 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density 273 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates 51 ° 28 ′  N , 5 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′  N , 5 ° 48 ′  E
Important traffic route A67 E34 N270 N279 N604
prefix 0493
Postcodes 5751-5754, 5756-5759
Website Homepage of Deurne
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Deurne ( listen ? / I ) is a municipality in the Netherlands , province of Noord-Brabant . It has a total area of ​​118.36 km². Deurne has 32,364 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2019). Audio file / audio sample

places

  • Deurne (24,755 inhabitants), where the municipal administration is also located
  • Liessel
  • Vlierden
  • Neerkant
  • Helenaveen

Location and economy

Deurne is located in the east of the province, between Helmond, eight kilometers to the west . Venlo is about 30 km south-east of Deurne. The city is connected by a railway with Eindhoven and Venlo. A junction with the A67 is located a few kilometers away . Another road leads north-east to Venray .

Deurne lives mainly from trade and small businesses, industry (a plant of the Philips group), tourism and agriculture.

history

The place Deurne was mentioned for the first time in 721 in an episcopal deed of donation. Already around 800 BC BC people lived here, as the discovery of an urn field testifies. In 1910 a gilded helmet of a Roman was found during the work to reclaim the raised bog in the municipality (now in the Leiden Museum for Antiquity { Rijksmuseum van Oudheden }). In the Middle Ages Deurne had a St. Willibrord consecrated church . This was forcibly "reformed" after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, when Deurne became part of the Protestant Republic of the Netherlands. The Catholics went to Mass in Venray , which, like large parts of the province of Limburg, did not become Dutch until 1815. During the reign of Napoleon, the Catholics got their church back in 1799.

In 1853 a businessman by the name of Van der Griendt founded Maatschappij Helenaveen , which had large parts of the raised bog "De Peel" buried: the peat was a good fuel and after the meter-thick layer of bog was removed, usable arable land remained. The village of Helenaveen developed there, with a freight station on the Eindhoven - Helmond - Venlo railway line opened in 1866, which was important until the Second World War . At the beginning of the 20th century, there was also a significant textile industry in Deurne , and the Philips Group built a light bulb factory in Deurne . In the meantime the peat extraction had been stopped due to inefficiency (in South Limburg there were now the hard coal mines).

The Second World War was catastrophic for the community. First of all, when the German troops marched in on May 10 and 11, 1940, there was heavy fighting here. In autumn 1944, Deurnes Castle and the village of Neerkant were heavily devastated by the Allies' attempt to conquer the area between Eindhoven / Herzogenbusch and the Maas, which was still occupied by the Germans , after the partially unsuccessful Operation Market Garden . The large Liberty Park War Museum in neighboring Overloon gives a good picture of these battles. After 1950, with government subsidies in The Hague, industrial parks were built along the railroad, which greatly improved economic development.

Deurne Castle
Church: de Sint Willibrorduskerk
Church: de Sint Jozefkerk

Cultural

Deurne was the residence of several well-known artists in the region:

  • Hendrik Wiegersma, painter, a friend of Ossip Zadkine
  • his sons Friso Wiegersma, text writer for well-known Dutch small artists such as Wim Sonneveld , and Pieter Wiegersma (1920–2009)
  • Antoon Coolen, writer (1897–1961)
  • Toon Kortooms, writer (1916-1999).

Trivia

Toon Kortooms wrote popular, humorous novels about the area and village life, including “Beekman en Beekman” and “Help, de dokter verzuipt”, which was made into a film.

Attractions

  • The high moor landscape of De Peel , east of Deurne. Part of it is a 13 km² national park (Nationaal Park De Groote Peel ), which can be visited by the visitor center “Mijl op zeven”. "De Peel" is separated from Deurne himself by the "Peelrandbreuk". This is a small fault or break in the earth's crust, so where earthquakes are possible. But there are hardly ever any stronger quakes than about three on the Richter scale .
  • The Hendrik Wiegersma House (De Wieger). Museum for paintings from the period 1915–1940. Temporary exhibitions of modern art.
  • Some old windmills and 19th century farmhouses .
  • Small and large castle in the “Haageind” (14th century).

politics

The Politieke Partij DOE! was able to defend its election victory from 2014 in the last local election on March 21, 2018. In the 2018–2022 legislative period, these are part of a coalition with DeurneNU and the VVD .

Municipal council

Local election on March 21, 2018
Turnout: 56.5%
 %
30th
20th
10
0
23.6
18.8
16.9
14.6
11.2
9.9
5.0
DOE! a
NU b
TD e
PA / GL f
Gains and losses
compared to 2014
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+2.7
-1.2
+0.5
-2.3
+2.4
+0.7
-2.7
DOE! a
NU b
TD e
PA / GL f
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Remarks:
a Politieke Partij DOE!
b DeurneNU
e Transparant Deurne
f Progressive accord / GroenLinks

The municipal council has been formed as follows since 1982:

Political party Seats
1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018
Politieke Partij DOE! - - - - - 5 5 6th 5 6th
DeurneNU 8th 10 10 10 9 7th 5 4th 5 5
CDA 9 7th 7th 6th 6th 6th 6th 6th 4th 4th
VVD 2 1 1 1 2 1 3 4th 4th 3
Transparant Deurne - - - - - - - - 2 2
Progressive accord - - - - 2 2 1 1 2 2
GroenLinks - - 3 3 - - - -
PvdA 1 3 2 2 3 2 1 1
Progressieve Partij Deurne 1 - - - - - - - -
D66 - - - 3 2 - - - - -
Lijst Bennenbroek - - - - 0 - - - - -
Partij voor Socialisme en Ontwapening - 0 - - - - - - - -
Democrats Deurne 0 - - - - - - - - -
total 21st 21st 21st 23 23 23 23 23 23 23

College of Mayors and Aldermen

The coalition parties DeurneNU , Politieke Partij DOE! and VVD each provide the College van burgemeester en wethouders with an alderman. The following people belong to the college and are responsible in the following areas:

function Surname Political party Department annotation
mayor Hilko Mak CDA Administration, security and business management in office since February 1, 2011
Alderman Marinus Biemans Politieke Partij DOE! Space, economy, rural surroundings, sustainability as well as art and culture -
Marnix locks VVD Work, care, education and finance -
Verhees helmet DeurneNU Housing, living, buildings and possessions -
Community Secretary Robbert Halffman - - in office since January 2018

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Deurne  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
  2. ↑ a b Results of the local elections: 1982–2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on December 30, 2018 (Dutch)
  3. ^ College of B&W . In: ris2.ibabs.eu . Gemeente Deurne, accessed December 30, 2018 (Dutch)