Deurne () is a rural municipality and eponymous village in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. Including the villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Neerkant, and Helenaveen, Deurne had a population of in and covers an area of .
History
First recorded as ''Durninum'' (near / by thorns) in a deed of gift from the Frankish Lord Herelaef to bishop Willibrord in 721, Deurne remained a collection of subsistence farming hamlets west of the Peelpeat
moor
Moor or Moors may refer to:
Nature and ecology
* Moorland, a habitat characterized by low-growing vegetation and acidic soils.
Ethnic and religious groups
* Moors, Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during ...
until the 2nd half of the 19th century, when a newly built railroad (Eindhoven - Venlo in 1866) and a canal (
Zuid-Willemsvaart canal
The Zuid-Willemsvaart (; translated: ''South William's Canal'') is a canal in the south of the Netherlands and the east of Belgium.
Route
The Zuid-Willemsvaart is a canal in the provinces Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg (Belgium) and North Br ...
in 1826) enabled the commercial exploitation of the moor. Although the peat industry did not yield much of a
profit
Profit may refer to:
Business and law
* Profit (accounting), the difference between the purchase price and the costs of bringing to market
* Profit (economics), normal profit and economic profit
* Profit (real property), a nonpossessory intere ...
in the era of coal powered industries, the cultivation of the newly cleared land, in the 1930s also by
forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, violence including death, or other forms of ex ...
, gave a boost to agriculture, farming, and settlement alike. Today only tiny pieces of this former peat moor remain, some reflooded as mini wetlands, scattered along the fault line that once brought about its very existence.
Coincidentally the very same Anglo Dutch Griendtsveen Peat Moss Litter Company Ltd. that extracted a significant part of the peat in the Peel moved to Thorne (
Moorends
Moorends is a village in the north-east of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, situated on the border with East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It is ...
) South Yorkshire, U.K., where several of its Dutch employees settled as immigrant workers.
In 2009 the new "Cultural Centre" (''cultureel centrum'') opened its doors. It is the Martien van Doorne Cultuur Centrum and serves as a theatre, concert hall, and movie theatre.
The local dialect is Peellands (an East Brabantian dialect, which is very similar to colloquial Dutch).Jos & Cor Swanenberg: Taal in stad en land: Oost-Brabants,
Lucas Gassel
Lucas Gassel or Lucas van Gassel (Deurne, Netherlands, c. 1485 – Brussels, 1568 or 1569)Lucas Gassel at the (c.1488 in Deurne – 1568 or 1569) a Renaissance painter known for his landscapes
* Aaltje Noordewier–Reddingius (1868 in Deurne – 1949) a Dutch classical soprano and voice teacher
* Jules de Corte (1924 in Deurne – 1996) blind singer-songwriter from the Netherlands
* Laurens van den Acker (born 1965 in Deurne) an automobile designer
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Erik van Lieshout
Erik Gerardus Franciscus van Lieshout is a Dutch contemporary artist most widely known for his installations. In 2018, he won the Heineken Prize for Art.
Biography
Erik van Lieshout was resident from 1990 to 1992 at de Ateliers ’63 in Haarle ...
(born 1968 in Deurne) a Dutch contemporary artist
Gallery
File:Dr. Anna Terruweplein Deurne P1050447.jpg, Dr. Anna Terruweplein, Deurne
File:Deurne, de Sint Willibrorduskerk RM12372 foto6 2014-05-18 11.42.jpg, Deurne, church: de Sint Willibrorduskerk
File:140704 HANENBERGWEG ZEILBERG DEURNE 't Benkske.JPG, wooden meeting place, known as LITTLE BENCH
File:Geldersestraat 10-12 voorm tabakschuur..JPG, Geldersestraat 10-12