Prinsenbeek is a village and a former municipality in the

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. The village is situated west of the motorway A16 (

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. Prinsenbeek is a part of the municipality

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 ...

, and it has 11,419 inhabitants (2005). There is a

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on the line Rotterdam–Breda. During the

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, Prinsenbeek is called Boemeldonck (slowtrainswamp).

History

Initially, the village was called Beek. The Prinsenhoeve (''princes' farm'') at Beek was built in the 14th century, and that is the first mention of this village. Beek became a parish in 1796. On 1 July 1866 the train station Prinsenbeek was opened. The municipality Beek was founded in 1942, during

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, when the town

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was added to the town Breda. The village, with a church, became a separate municipality. In 1951 the name was changed into Prinsenbeek, because there were several more towns called Beek, one in

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and one in

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. By royal decree Prinsenbeek was given a town arms on 12 January 1951 and on 11 October 1963 the town council decided to have a town flag. On 1 July 1976 the area east of the railway was added to Breda. Finally at the municipal redivision on 1 January 1997 Prinsenbeek was added to Breda.

Buildings

Prinsenbeek has some civil monuments. The pump at the Markt is a reconstruction from 1975 of the pump from 1874, which was destroyed in 1935. The Mariachapel was built in 1953, and renamed in 1980 into 'Chapel of Peace', in remembrance of the people who died in the second World War. The church, built on the Market square. A sculpture of a slowtrain, which was used to drive on the railroad.

Gallery

File:Prinsenbeek DSCF5083.jpg , Farm in Prinsenbeek File:Bakker Mark Elias P1140218.jpg, Bakery in Prinsenbeek File:Fruitkraam Fruitig Liesje DSCF1223.jpg, Market in Prinsenbeek File:Onze Lieve Vrouw Hemelvaartkerk (1963), Prinsenbeek P1140228.jpg, Church of Prinsenbeek

References

{{Commons category, position=left Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1997 Former municipalities of North Brabant Populated places in North Brabant Breda