Heel (Limburg)
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.svg){kind=small} Limburg
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 Maasgouw
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Area - land - water |
11.87 km 2 9.39 km 2 2.48 km 2 |
| Residents | 4,451 (Jan 1, 2018) |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 11 ′ N , 5 ° 54 ′ E |
| Important traffic route |
  
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| prefix | 0475 |
| Postcodes | 6019, 6096-6097, 6099 |
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Heel ( ) is a place and a former municipality in the south of the Netherlands in the province of Limburg .
Heel is located on the western bank of the Maas just a few kilometers southwest of the city of Roermond and 35 km northwest of Maastricht on the A 2 and N 273. The distance to Belgium is about 4.5 km, and that to Germany a good 12 km.
Railway stations are in the neighboring cities of Roermond , Weert and Echt ; the nearest regional airports are in the cities of Maastricht and Eindhoven .
Sights of the still heavily agricultural community include the windmill St. Lintermolen and the surge in the adjacent Thorn .
The private accommodations in the municipality are particularly popular with German short vacationers and water sports enthusiasts who use the numerous neighboring sports and shopping opportunities for a short trip across the border.
Community merger
The former municipality of Heel merged with the municipalities of Maasbracht and Thorn to form the municipality of Maasgouw on January 1, 2007 .
The municipality of Heel itself was created in 1991 from the merger of the formerly independent municipalities Heel en Panheel , Beegden and Wessem . The municipality had 8,326 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2006) and an area of 25.36 km².
Town twinning
Between 1972 and 2008 there was a partnership between the municipality of Heel and Seligenstadt in Hesse , which emerged from the partnership between the then independent municipalities of Wessem and Klein-Welzheim . The partnership was dissolved in Seligenstadt in March 2008 at the request of the Maasgouw municipality, to which Heel was transferred in 2007.
politics
Distribution of seats in the municipal council
Until the dissolution of the community, the following distribution of seats resulted from the establishment of the community:
| Political party | Seats | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 1994 | 1998 | 2002 | |
| Geheel Anders a | 2 | 4th | 3 | 4th |
| Fractie Wessem | 3 | 4th | 4th | 4th |
| CDA | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Beegden Aktief | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| VVD | 0 | - | 1 | 0 |
| PvdA | 1 | 0 | - | - |
| Beegden '90 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Seed sterk | 1 | - | - | - |
| total | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
Born in heel
- Emile Hendrix (* 1955), former show jumper
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cijfers en feiten Gemeente Maasgouw, accessed on August 6, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ Allocation of seats in the municipal council: 1990–2002 , accessed on August 6, 2018 (Dutch)