Gemert is a

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in the

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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

Gemert-Bakel Gemert-Bakel () is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. Geography Population centres Topography ''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Gemert-Bakel, June 2015'' Climate Climate in this area has mild differences between highs ...

. Gemert was a separate municipality until 1997, when it merged with Bakel. The spoken language is Peellands (an

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dialect, which is very similar to colloquial

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Population centres

The population centres from Gemert are ''Handel'', ''De Mortel'' and ''Elsendorp''. Gemert also has a little chapel village called ''Esdonk'' and a Protestant mining village called ''Vossenberg''.

Notable people born in Gemert

Georgius Macropedius Georgius Macropedius (born Joris van Lanckvelt; April 1487 – July 1558) was a Dutch humanist, schoolmaster and "the greatest Latin playwright of the 16th century." Biography Macropedius was born as Joris van Lanckvelt in Gemert (Northern Braba ...

Lawrence Torrentinus Lawrence Torrentinus, also known as Lorenzo Torrentino, Laurentius Torrentinus, Laurens van den Bleeck (1499–1563) was a Dutch-Italian humanist and famous typographer and printer for Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence Biography Laurentius ...

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Leon Vlemmings Leon Vlemmings (born 3 April 1970 in Gemert Gemert is a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Gemert-Bakel. Gemert was a separate municipality until 1997, when it merged with Bakel. The spoken lan ...

Jan van Gemert Albertus Johannes (Jan) van Gemert (3 June 1921, in Gemert – 11 September 1991, Gemert) was a Dutch painter, graphic artist, sculptor, glass artist and ceramist.Het Boerenbondsmuseum Het or HET may refer to: Science and technology * Hall-effect thruster, a type of ion thruster used for spacecraft propulsion * Heavy Equipment Transporter, a vehicle in the US Army's Heavy Equipment Transport System * Hobby–Eberly Telescope, a ...

is a museum in Gemert. In this museum there are some objects and some buildings about the farmerpopulation near Gemert around 1900.

Religious buildings

Gemert has two churches: * ''De Kerk van Sint-Jans Onthoofding''. * ''Sint-Gerardus Majellakerk''. Gemert has also one monastery: * ''Klooster Nazareth''.

Gallery

File:1652wikinr99 Raadhuis Gemert.jpg, Town hall File:Gemert Rijksmonument 518097 Kerkstraat 3.JPG, Building in Gemert File:Gemert P1050895.JPG, Street view File:Gemert Sint Gerardus Majellakerk toren.jpg, Tower of the St Gerardus Majella Church

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1997 Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Gemert-Bakel