Halsteren is a town 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

Bergen op Zoom Bergen op Zoom (; called ''Berrege'' in the local dialect) is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands. Etymology The city was built on a place where two types of soil meet: sandy soil and marine clay. The sandy soil p ...

, about 1 km north of that city. Halsteren has an old church from the 14th century and a new church, built in 1919. A little village called Polder was located between Halsteren and Tholen in the Middle Ages.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1272 as Halst[ert, and means "bend in the highland with a tail". It developed on a westward pointing sandy ridge. The Dutch Reformed church was built in the 14th century. It was extended in 1457. After a fire in 1607, it was extensively restored. In 1799, it was returned to the Catholic church and restored several times. In 1961, it became a Dutch Reformed church again. The Catholic St. Quirinus Church was built between 1911 and 1912 and has a double tower. The former town hall dates from 1633. It was restored and extended in 1917. It was restored in 1944 after a fire. Halsteren was home to 538 people in 1840. Halsteren was a separate municipality until 1997, when it became a part of

. The village of Polder or Polre was located near Halsteren. It disappeared in a flood in 1570 and most of the village is still buried underneath a metre of mud.

Gallery

File:Halsteren, de Sint Antoniusmolen RM19991 foto3 2015-05-24 11.43.jpg, Windmill: the Sint Antoniusmolen File:Boerderij, achtergevel met zesdelige empire schuiframen en luiken - Lepelstraat - 20411835 - RCE.jpg, Farm in Halsteren File:Quirinuschurch HalsterenDSC04639kl.jpg, Quirinus Church File:Blik op HalsterenDSC04646.jpg, View on Halsteren

References

External links

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Information about Halsteren on the site of the BHIC (Dutch)
{{Authority control Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1997 Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Bergen op Zoom