Mariaheide is a village in the south of the

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. It is situated in the municipality of

Meierijstad Meierijstad () is a municipality in the province of North Brabant. The municipality is the result of a merger between the municipalities Schijndel, Sint-Oedenrode and Veghel in 2017. After the merger it became the largest municipality in terms 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 ...

History

Mariaheide was founded as a

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along the road from

Veghel Veghel () is a town and a former municipality in the southern Netherlands. On 1 January 2017 Veghel, together with Schijndel and Sint-Oedenrode, merged into a new municipality called Meierijstad creating the largest municipality of the provinc ...

Uden Uden () is a town and former municipality in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands. Since 2022 it has been part of the new municipality of Maashorst. History Uden was first recorded around 1190 as "Uthen". However, earlier settlements h ...

. Real population growth never got off the ground though, and in 1907 Mariaheide still only consisted of several farms on cultivated former

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land. However that year, Mariaheide split off from the St. Lambert Parish in

, to form a new and separate parish, the ''Our Lady of Good Counsel Parish'', and got its own church. In 1912, the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Mother of God from

, founded the ''St. Nicholas Monastery'' in Mariaheide.

Gallery

File:Situering straatbeeld met kerk - Mariaheide - 20333535 - RCE.jpg, Church and monastery File:Veghel - Pastoor van Haarenstraat 44 - Voorm. Nicolaasklooster.jpg, St. Nicholas Monastery File:T.T vm Schoolgebouw Mariaheide.JPG, Our Lady of Good Counsel School File:T.T vm Pakhuis Mariaheide.JPG, Monumental warehouse File:Mariaheide (N-Br, NL), farmhouse.JPG, Farmhouse

References

External links

Website of Mariaheide
{{Authority control Populated places in North Brabant Meierijstad