Herten is a village in the southeastern

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. It is located in the municipality of

Roermond Roermond (; li, Remunj or ) is a city, municipality, and diocese in the Limburg province of the Netherlands. Roermond is a historically important town on the lower Roer on the east bank of the river Meuse. It received town rights in 1231. Roer ...

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History

The village was first mentioned in the middle of the 11th century as Hercena. The etymology is unknown. Herten developed in the Middle Ages along the Maas. In 1716, it became part of the Austrian

Upper Guelders {{unreferenced, date=November 2011 Upper Guelders or Spanish Guelders was one of the four quarters in the Imperial Duchy of Guelders. In the Dutch Revolt, it was the only quarter that did not secede from the Habsburg monarchy to become part of the ...

. The Catholic St Michael Church was originally from the 13th century. In 1881, the tower collapsed and a new church was built in

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style. The church was completely destroyed in 1945, and a new church was built between 1953 and 1954 and was designed by . Herten was home to 153 people in 1840. It was severely damaged during

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. After the war, it became a commuter's village for

. Herten was a separate municipality until 1991, when it was merged with Roermond.Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. The municipality also covered the smaller villages of Merum and Ool. Even though Roermond and Herten have formed a single urban area, Herten is a separate village.

Gallery

File:Herten, Roermond, voormalig gemeentehuis.JPG, Former town hall

References

Populated places in Limburg (Netherlands) Former municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands) Roermond {{LimburgNL-geo-stub