Oerle 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 w ...
. It is located in the municipality of
Veldhoven
Veldhoven () is a municipality and town on the Gender in the southern Netherlands, just southwest of Eindhoven.
Topography
Dutch topographic map of Veldhoven (town), Dec. 2013
Population centres
The modern town of Veldhoven is an agglomerat ...
, about 7 km west of
Eindhoven.
The village was first mentioned in 1249 Oerle, and is a combination of "open forest" and "sand".
Oerle was home to 152 people in 1840.
Oerle was a separate municipality until 1921, when it became part of Veldhoven.
The
grist mill
A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...
Sint Jan is reasonably new wind mill. It was constructed in 1987 from parts of demolished wind mills. The grain which is milled is sold by the miller.
In the early 21st century, the village started to grow, and it is planned to grow to about 4,000 people.
Gallery
File:Oerle, korenmolen Sint Jan foto6 2014-05-09 11.32.jpg, Oerle, windmill: korenmolen Sint Jan
File:Boerderij-Kleine-Vliet-Oerle.jpg, Farm in Oerle
File:Vijverbergje-Oerle.jpg, Derelict little tower
References
Populated places in North Brabant
Former municipalities of North Brabant
Veldhoven
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