Gastel is a village in the

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

province of

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 ...

. It is located in the municipality of

Cranendonck Cranendonck () is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. Though located in North Brabant near Eindhoven, the spoken dialect is Budels (linguistically a West Limburgish dialect), rather than Kempenlands (linguistically an East Brabantian dial ...

. In 2020, the village had 744 inhabitants.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1307 as Gherardus de Gastele, and means guesthouse/inn. Gastel was home to 79 people in 1840. Gastel was a separate municipality until 1821, when it became a part of

Soerendonk, Sterksel en Gastel Soerendonk, Sterksel en Gastel was a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It consisted of two parts, one containing the village Soerendonk and Gastel and one containing Sterksel. The two parts were separated by the municipalities ...

.Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006.

References

Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Cranendonck {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub