Huijbergen is a village 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

Woensdrecht Woensdrecht () is a municipality (named after the village) in the southern Netherlands. Woensdrecht is the home of the Woensdrecht Air Base, which is located to the north-east of the village of Woensdrecht and to the north-west of Huijbergen. ...

, about southeast of

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, close to the

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border.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1264 as in Huybergen. The etymology is unclear. In 1264, , Lord of

Breda Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from ''brede Aa'' ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has ...

, sold the moorland around Huijbergen for cultivation. The village developed in 1278 around the monastery of the

Hermits of Saint William The Hermits of Saint William (Williamites) was a religious community founded by Albert, companion and biographer of William of Maleval, and Renaldus, a physician who had settled at Maleval shortly before the saint's death. It followed the practice ...

. Only the gate wing of the monastery from the early-17th century remains. In 1847, an orphanage by the Brothers of Our Lady was established at the site. The building were severely damaged in 1944, and rebuilt in the 1950s in traditional style. The

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Johanna was built in 1862. In 1918, the miller was struck by lightning and died several month later. It was already a ruin in the 1940s. In 1966, it was sold to the municipality, and restored between 1967 and 1969. Huijbergen was home to 507 people in 1840. The village was severely damaged by war in 1944. Huijbergen was a separate municipality until 1997, when it became a part of Woensdrecht. In 2012, it held the national cyclo-cross championships, which was won by Lars Bloom.

Notable people

Maria Hertogh Maria Hertogh (born ''Huberdina Maria Hertogh''; 24 March 1937 – 8 July 2009), also known as Bertha Hertogh, Nadra binte Ma'arof, Nadra Adabi and simply as Natrah, was a Dutch woman of Eurasian extraction and Malay upbringing, notable for bei ...

, lived in Huijbergen from 2004 until her death in 2008.

Gallery

File:De Staartse hoeve.jpg, Farm in Huijbergen File:Overzicht windmolen - Huybergen - 20349014 - RCE.jpg, Wind mill Johanna

References

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