Milsbeek
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.svg){kind=small} Limburg
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 Gennep
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Area - land - water |
8.56 km 2 8.32 km 2 0.24 km 2 |
| Residents | 2,733 (Jan 1, 2018) |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 44 ′ N , 5 ° 57 ′ E |
| Important traffic route |
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| prefix | 0485 |
| Postcodes | 6586-6587, 6591, 6595-6596 |
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Milsbeek ( De Milsbèk in Kleverland ) is a village in the far north of the province of Limburg in the Netherlands . The village belongs to the municipality of Gennep and has 2,733 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2018).
In the village there is a football club, a brass band, a theater group, a tennis club, netball club , various carnival clubs, a rifle club, a rifle brotherhood and a primary school. The Niers joins the Meuse at Milsbeek . The village owes its name to a brook with rusty brown water that rises in a bog. Mil means rust-colored water and beek means brook. Nowadays the brook is called Kroonbeek .
history
Milsbeek was first mentioned in a pension register of the Graefenthal monastery in 1329. The Abbey 's-Gravendal in Asperden was the owner of "supra Milsbeke", an estate on Milsbeek (Milsbach). Milsbeek was also mentioned in connection with the bridge toll that was levied on crossing the stream. The Lords of Gennep from the nearby Genneperhuis had customs rights.
In the immediate vicinity of Milsbeek, the battle of the Mooker Heide took place in 1574 . When the Spanish fortress "Genneperhuis" was conquered by the Dutch in 1641, Milsbeek was affected by fighting because of the bulwarks on its territory. After a long siege, the fortress was recaptured by the United Netherlands. Street names like “Kanonskamp” and “Schuttersplein” refer to this time in today's Milsbeek. Milsbeek, however, did not belong to the Republic of the Seven United Provinces , but to the Duchy of Cleves .
Milsbeek was first noted on the map of Nicolaes van Geelkercken in the first half of the 17th century . In the period from 1731 to 1732 it was carefully mapped for the Klevische Cadastre.
The parish of Milsbeek
In April 1930 Chaplain L. Hoefnagels from Baarlo was called to Msgr. Schrijnen , Bishop of Roermond. Under the seal of secrecy, he was told that he should be appointed "construction pastor" of Milsbeek. Kaplan Hoefnagels accepted the challenge. In the personnel decisions in September, the intention was finally announced to plant a new church in Milsbeek. On September 21 of the same year, Monsignor Schrijnen wrote a letter to the priests and parishioners in Ottersum . In it he stressed the need for a community in Milsbeek. At the same time he suggested boundaries and gave the new municipality its name: “Onze Lieve Vrouwe van Altijddurende Bijstand”. Complaints could be submitted to the dean of Gennep within eight days . Milsbeek's official founding act is dated December 9, 1930. The new church received full rights. In the immediate context, a primary school was built in Milsbeek. It was planned as a co-educational institution from the start. This was unusual for the time. The school building was completed in front of the church and initially also served as an emergency church. The new community comprised 127 families.
Pottery
The pottery in Milsbeek made the village better known. Potters must have settled in Milsbeek as early as the Golden Age . According to tradition, they came from Sonsbeck . Old maps show a pottery on the Bloemenstraat, while a field on the Rozenbroekstraat was formerly known as the potter's field. The potters of that time made utensils such as jugs, bowls and tobacco boxes. However, they disappeared before industrialization and automation. Regout in Maastricht provided the decisive impetus for the suppression of the small craft . Only those who switched to the production of flowerpots in good time survived this. Döt and Jan Liebrand from Ottersum and Van Arensbergen from Gennep were among them. Some Milsbeekeners came back to Milsbeek from there in the 1930s as self-employed. The first were Jan and Wim Bindels from Potkuilen. After Jan Bindels had worked for Van Arensbergen for a short time and for an even shorter time at Liebrand, he built a small business on his own in Potkuilen and started production in 1931. Jan, a skilled potter, developed and built the first press in the area and thus gave the impetus for the mechanization of production. Later he also built various ovens in Milsbeek.
Then followed Bertje Arts in 1934 and a few years later the van den Hoogen brothers, Wim Jansen and Peter Linders and then the Grutters, Herman Wientjes and Wim Jansen brothers with a small manufacture and Bart Wijnhoven. In 1952, the pioneers Jan and Wim Bindels built another company on Molenweg (now Ovenberg), as no electricity was available in the potkuilen. Milsbeek became a pottery village, with a concentration that is unique in the Netherlands.
The clay for the production was obtained in the area "de Potkuilen". Flower pots were mainly produced, initially mainly in the Lent area . It was burned with the help of twigs and scrap wood. The advancing automation and mass production led to the disappearance of small production facilities in the 1960s.
Milsbeek is still characterized by pottery today. The then Princess Beatrix visited the "De Olde Kruyk" pottery on May 6, 1960. The annual Keramisto ceramic market also contributed to Milsbeek's international fame.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gemeente Gennep Gemeente Gennep, accessed on July 28, 2018 (Dutch)