Bavel is a

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in the southern

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. It is located in the

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, largely within the

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Breda Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from ''brede Aa'' ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has ...

with some rural areas in the municipality of Alphen-Chaam. Bavel has a population of around 8,300 , the majority of the inhabitants live in the village itself, and some 590 in the surrounding countryside, including the hamlets of Roosberg, Eikberg, Bolberg, Tervoort, Lijndonk and

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History

Bavel is first mentioned in 1299, in a document dealing with the distribution of the revenues in the parish of

Gilze Gilze en Rijen () is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. The municipality contains four villages: Rijen, Gilze, Hulten and Molenschot. It is home to the Gilze-Rijen Air Base. Rijen grew in the 19th century due to its leather factories. P ...

, of which Bavel was a part at that time, and the rights of the Abbey in

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, the owners of the area, to collect one tenth of the harvest, called "tienden". The streets "Tiendweg" and "Abdij van Thornstraat" in Bavel bear witness to this historical connection. In 1316 Bavel was separated from the parish of Gilze and gets its own church, devoted to St. Brigida. After the 80-years war in 1648, Catholicism became banned, and the church fell to the Protestants. The catholic population improvised a catholic church in the hamlet of IJpelaar (today part of the city of Breda) until 1743, in which year they build a new church, presumably at the "Kerkeind". In 1809, the French king

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returned the original church back to the catholic population. In this time, a French "telegraphe" was installed on the tower of the church, to convey messages fast from Paris to Amsterdam. In 1887 a new church building, located roughly opposite the street of the old one, devoted to the

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was taken into use, and is still in use. The location of the old church is now the a graveyard, and the little chapel is constructed from material of the old church. Until 1942 Bavel was part of the municipality of

Ginneken en Bavel Ginneken en Bavel was a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant, located southeast of the city of Breda. It covered the villages of Ginneken (now a neighbourhood of Breda) and Bavel. Ginneken en Bavel existed until 1942, when the vi ...

. In that year the city of Breda annexed Ginneken and what remained of the old borough became

Nieuw-Ginneken Nieuw-Ginneken was a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant, located southeast of the city of Breda. It was created in 1942 from part of the municipality of Ginneken en Bavel, and existed until 1997 when its parts north of the A58 mot ...

. In 1997 the municipality of Nieuw Ginneken ceased to exist after the population centres on the border to Breda were annexed by this city. In the period 2003-2006, a new residential area along the former borderline between the city of Breda and Nieuw-Ginneken was established (Nieuw Wolfslaar). The city had also planned to construct a new village on at Lijndonk/Tervoort, but these plans have recently been cancelled.Breda past in hoog tempo bouwplannen aan
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Gallery

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Church in Bavel, built in 1887 File:30490 windmolen de hoop.jpg, Wind mill De Hoop File:T.T Boerderij Dorstseweg 31 Bavel 30491.JPG, Farm in Bavel File:Cafe Zalencentrum De Tussenpauz P1330730.jpg, Pub and party centre

References

External links

* {{Authority control Populated places in North Brabant Alphen-Chaam Breda