Heusden also known as ''Asten-Heusden'' (or ''Heuze'' among locals) is a small
village
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in
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 ...
in the
Netherlands
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. It is in the so-called
Peel region.
It was first mentioned in 1794 as Heusden. The etymology is unclear.
Heusden has a small village square with a few
bars, a
church
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Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
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, a
grocery store
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, and a youth center. The village is only a couple kilometres from
Asten which is much larger and the centre of activity for most residents of Heusden. Heusden also has the romantic remains of an old castle that dates from the fifteenth century. Attached to the ruins, a seventeenth-century v-shape farmstead is still in place.
Gallery
File:526704 voorburcht kasteel asten.jpg, Outer bailey of Castle Asten
File:Overzicht op de kasteelruïne met links de hardstenen trap naar het terras - Asten - 20535920 - RCE.jpg, Ruins of the castle
References
Populated places in North Brabant
Asten, Netherlands
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