Land van Cuijk is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the 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 ...

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

, formed from the merger of

Boxmeer Boxmeer () is a town and former municipality in upper southeastern Netherlands. Boxmeer as a municipality incorporated the former municipality of Beugen en Rijkevoort and that of Vierlingsbeek. In Overloon is the Overloon War Museum. Boxmeer, ...

Cuijk Cuijk (; dialect: ''Kuuk'') is a town in the northeastern part of the province of North Brabant, Netherlands. It is the successor of a Roman settlement on the west bank of the Meuse, 13 km (8 mi) south of Nijmegen. Cuijk, which had a po ...

Sint Anthonis Sint Anthonis () is a village and former municipality in the southern Netherlands in the Province of North Brabant. The locals refer to the town as ''Sint Tunnis''. An inhabitant is called a "Sintunnisenaar". The former municipality had a populati ...

Mill en Sint Hubert Mill en Sint Hubert () is a former municipality in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. Mill en Sint Hubert, Boxmeer, Cuijk, Grave, and Sint Anthonis merged into the new municipality of Land van Cuijk on 1 January 2022. Population c ...

and

Grave A grave is a location where a dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is buried or interred after a funeral. Graves are usually located in special areas set aside for the purpose of burial, such as grave ...

. The municipality came into existence on 1 January 2022. It belongs to the region of De Peel. The municipality is mainly oriented towards the city of

Nijmegen Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...

. A is spoken in the entire Land van Cuijk.

Geography

As of 2022, the areas encompassed by the municipality have a population of approximately 90 thousand people. The municipality is bordered by

Wijchen Wijchen () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a town in the province of Gelderland, in the eastern part of the Netherlands. Population centres Number of residents per population centre per 12 December 2009: Source: Statis ...

and

Heumen Heumen () is a municipality and a village in the eastern Netherlands. Population centres *Heumen * Malden (administrative centre) *Molenhoek (partly) *Nederasselt *Overasselt Topography ''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Heumen, J ...

to the north,

Mook en Middelaar Mook en Middelaar (; li, Mook en Middelar) is a municipality in the upper southeastern part of the Netherlands, at the northern tip of the province of Limburg and is a part of Stadsregio Arnhem Nijmegen. The municipality is located about 100&nb ...

Gennep Gennep () is a municipality and a city in upper southeastern Netherlands. It lies in the very northern part of the province of Limburg, 18 km south of Nijmegen. Furthermore, it lies on the right bank of the Meuse river, and south of the forest ...

and Bergen (Limburg) to the east,

Venray Venray or Venraij (; li, Venroj) is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a city in Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, the Netherlands. The municipality of Venray consists of 14 towns over an area of , with 43,494 inhabitants as o ...

to the south and Oss, Maashorst,

Boekel Boekel () is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands. Etymology Previously it was assumed the name Boekel referred to the forest ("loo" in Dutch) of the lords Boc, similar to places like Boxmeer and Boxtel. The lords Boc were ...

and

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 ...

to the west. It consists of 33 main population centres.

Topography

''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Land van Cuijk, 2021.''

History

The Land van Cuijk was given in pledge to

William the Silent William the Silent (24 April 153310 July 1584), also known as William the Taciturn (translated from nl, Willem de Zwijger), or, more commonly in the Netherlands, William of Orange ( nl, Willem van Oranje), was the main leader of the Dutch Re ...

in 1559. During the Eighty Years' War, Grave was conquered in 1602 by Maurice of Nassau, later Prince of Orange. The Land van Cuijk remained in an uncertain position between the Spanish and the Dutch Netherlands until it joined the Dutch Republic at the

Treaty of Münster Treaty of Münster refers to two treaties signed in 1648, and forming part of the Peace of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War: * Peace of Münster The Peace of Münster was a treaty between the Lords States General of the Seven United N ...

in 1648. It was added to Staats-Brabant: a generality land that was administered from The Hague by the States General of the Republic. The Catholic religion was suppressed (but tolerated) and the churches were taken over by the handful of Protestants who ruled. The Catholics were initially dependent on a border church in Oeffelt, in order to be allowed to move into a

barn church A barn church or barn chapel is a specific type of clandestine church A clandestine church ( nl, schuilkerk), defined by historian Benjamin J. Kaplan as a "semi-clandestine church", is a house of worship used by religious minorities whose commu ...

on the Molenstraat after 1672. After the foundation of the

Batavian Republic The Batavian Republic ( nl, Bataafse Republiek; french: République Batave) was the successor state to the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. It was proclaimed on 19 January 1795 and ended on 5 June 1806, with the accession of Louis Bona ...

in 1795, all lordships were abolished. The Land van Cuijk became part of Batavian Brabant.

Name

The name Land van Cuijk refers to the former seigniory of the same name. The seigniory was bordered by the Maas and the Peel and consisted of two areas that were separated from each other by the seigniory of Boxmeer.

Politics

The first elections for the municipality were held on 24 November 2021.

References

External links

Official Website
{{coord missing, Netherlands Municipalities of North Brabant Municipalities of the Netherlands established in 2022