Biezenmortel is a village in the municipality

Tilburg Tilburg () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern province of North Brabant. With a population of 222,601 (1 July 2021), it is the second-largest city or municipality in North Brabant after Eindhoven and the seventh-larg ...

in the Dutch province

North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the we ...

. The village had 1,465 inhabitants and 470 households in January 2020. Biezenmortel has a primary school called Franciscus and a community center called De Vorselaer. Centrally located in the village, there is a former Capuchin monastery called Beukenhof, that now serves as a group accommodation. The Sint Josephkerk, which was located inside the monastery, closed down in 2019. Just over to the southeast of Biezenmortel lies Huize Assisië, a historic psychiatric complex founded in 1904. It consists of some 40 buildings including a chapel and houses around 200 intellectually disabled people. Before 2021, Biezenmortel was part of the former municipality Haaren.

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Populated places in North Brabant Tilburg {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub