Geldrop-Mierlo

Geldrop-Mierlo municipality

flag	coat of arms
province	North Brabant
mayor	Jos van Bree ( VVD )
Seat of the municipality	Geldrop
Area  - land  - water	31.39  km 2 31.02 km 2 0.37 km 2
CBS code	1771
Residents	39,597 (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density	1261 inhabitants / km 2
Coordinates	51 ° 26 '  N , 5 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '  N , 5 ° 35'  E
Important traffic route
prefix	040, 0492
Postcodes	5563, 5661-5667, 5731
Website	Homepage of Geldrop-Mierlo

Geldrop, mill: korenmolen 't Nupke

Geldrop-Mierlo ( listen ^{? / I} ) is a municipality in the Netherlands , province of Noord-Brabant . It has 39,597 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2019).

places

• Geldrop (28,775 inhabitants), where the municipal administration is located
• Mierlo (10,480 inhabitants)

Location and economy

Geldrop is 5 kilometers east of Eindhoven on the A67 Antwerp  - Eindhoven - Venlo motorway . It has a train station on the Eindhoven - Weert railway. Four kilometers to the northeast, between Eindhoven and Helmond , is Mierlo.

Both villages can be described as suburbs of Eindhoven. There is still some industry in Geldrop. The company Kuhn Landmaschinen (formerly PZ Zweegers ) operates a plant with approx. 330 employees for agricultural machines. Honey cake: Peijnenburg company, known nationwide; also a factory that produces auto parts and a lot of small businesses. The time when Geldrop was known for agriculture and cherry tree cultivation is almost over.

history

Geldrop is known for the first time around 1600. When in 1629 the general Friedrich Heinrich von Oranien-Nassau took the city of Herzogenbusch for the Protestant Republic of the United Netherlands , many Catholics had to flee. The bishop Ophovius, an acquaintance of the Antwerp diplomat and painter Peter Paul Rubens , moved to Geldrop Castle. Rubens is said to have visited him there and perhaps painted; a portrait of the bishop by Rubens hangs in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam .

In the 19th century Geldrop temporarily became a factory town thanks to the wool and textile industry , which however died out after around 1960. During the Second World War there was heavy fighting here as part of Operation Market Garden (September / October 1944).

Attractions

• The castle in the middle of Geldrop: The building, which was built in 1616, contains a small local history museum, a restaurant, a party center and a hall where the residents of Geldrop and the surrounding area can have weddings. Other parts of the castle are office spaces that are not open to the public. The castle is surrounded by extensive gardens and parks.
• The small Geldrop weaving museum , in an old textile factory, with an important collection of looms . Open only to a limited extent.
• The small puppet theater museum, also in the middle of Geldrop.
• Geldrop and Mierlo each have an old windmill .
• The strikingly large St. Brigida Church in Geldrop. Next to the church is a sculpture depicting a weaver.
• The British "Ereveld" ( war cemetery ) from World War II .
• In the southern part of Hoog Geldrop, the streets are named after places and people from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings .

politics

The Christian Democratic CDA won the local elections on March 21, 2018 with a fifth of all votes. During the 2018-2022 legislative period, it forms a coalition with GroenLinks and the local parties Democratische Groepering Geldrop and Dorpspartij Mierlo .

Municipal council

Local election on March 21, 2018

Turnout: 51.79%

 %

30th

20th

10

0

20.5

18.4

13.9

13.3

11.6

8.1

7.7

6.5

no

CDA

DGG ^b

VVD

DPM ^d

GL

D66

SEEDS

PvdA

Otherwise. ⁱ

Gains and losses

compared to 2014

 % p

   8th

   6th

   4th

   2

   0

  -2

  -4

  -6

  -8th

-10

-12

-14

-16

+4.3

-2.7

+2.9

-0.3

+4.4

-2.5

+7.7

+1.7

-15.5

CDA

DGG ^b

VVD

DPM ^d

GL

D66

SEEDS

PvdA

Otherwise. ⁱ

Remarks:

^b Democratic Groepering Geldrop

^d Dorpspartij Mierlo

ⁱ SP 0.0% (–13.1%), Lijst Şenal 0.0% (–2.4%)

Since Geldrop-Mierlo was founded, the municipal council has been formed as follows:

Political party	Seats
	2003	2006	2010	2014	2018
CDA	6th	5	4th	4th	5
Democratic Groepering Geldrop	5	6th	4th	6th	5
VVD	2	2	3	3	4th
Dorpspartij Mierlo	3	3	3	3	3
GroenLinks	4th	5	4th	2	3
PvdA				1	1
D66	0	-	2	3	2
SEEDS	-	-	-	-	2
SP	-	-	1	3	-
Onafhankelijk Geldrop-Mierlo a	2	2	4th	-	-
Verenigd Geldrop-Mierlo	3	2	-	-	-
total	25th	25th	25th	25th	25th

Remarks

^aBefore 2010, Onafhankelijk Geldrop-Mierlo ran under the name Geldrops Belang .

College van B&W

The College van burgemeester en wethouders of the municipality of Geldrop-Mierlo is made up of four councilors provided by the coalition parties CDA, Democratische Groepering Geldrop , Dorpspartij Mierlo and GroenLinks. The following people belong to the college and are responsible in the following areas:

function	Surname	Political party	Department	annotation
mayor	Jos van Bree	VVD	Economy, real estate, work and income, building and living, zoning plans, housing projects, basic registrations / geoinformation / surveying, market, fair, sale of public greens, debt advice	in office since November 28, 2019
Alderman	Hans van de Laar	Dorpspartij Mierlo	Accessibility and traffic, finances, taxes, purchasing and tendering, IT and automation, public works, water, greenery, forest policy, play facilities, General Data Protection Regulation	-
	Peter Looijmans	Democratic Groepering Geldrop	Area-specific work, care and well-being, healthy living, senior citizens policy, district development plans	-
	Rob van Otterdijk	GroenLinks	Culture, youth politics and education, sustainability, nature and the environment, emancipation, animal welfare, rubbish, dog politics, archeology, local history, art, biodiversity, compulsory schooling, school transport, monuments, genetic material	-
Community Secretary	Nick Scheltens	-	-	in office since July 2017

Parish partnership

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Sons and daughters of the church

• Dries van Agt (* 1931), politician and former prime minister
• Jasper Blom (* 1965), jazz musician
• Heinrich Castritius Geldorp (1522–1585), humanist
• Lara Stone (born 1983), model
• Wijnand van der Sanden (* 1953), provincial archaeologist and prehistoric

Web links

Commons : Geldrop-Mierlo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the municipality (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Nieuwe burgemeester in Geldrop-Mierlo. In: rijksoverheid.nl. Rijksoverheid, November 22, 2019, accessed November 29, 2019 (Dutch). 
2. ↑ Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand . In: StatLine . Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (Dutch)
3. ↑ Google Maps: [1] As of July 31, 2014
4. ↑ ^{a b} Results of the local elections: 2003 2006 2010 2014 2018 , accessed on January 12, 2019 (Dutch)
5. ^ College of B&W . In: geldrop-mierlo.nl . Gemeente Geldrop-Mierlo, accessed on November 1, 2019 (Dutch)