Schoot is a

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in the

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of Veldhoven 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 ...

, the

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. The hamlet is located on a street with the same name. This street is a side street of the ''Knegselseweg'', the road connecting Veldhoven with the village

Knegsel Knegsel is a village in the south of the Netherlands. It is located in the municipality of Eersel, North Brabant. Knegsel is part of the Acht Zaligheden (Eight Beatitudes), alongside Eersel, Duizel, Steensel, Wintelre, Netersel, Hulsel en Reusel. ...

. East of Schoot lies the residential area ''Pegbroeken''. West of Schoot flows the small stream the Poelenloop and lies the forest area Oeyenbos.

History

The name ''Schoot'' refers to a high corner of land amidst lowland. In case of the hamlet near Veldhoven, this is probably related to the

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land located north of the stream

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. In the

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, there used to be a farm in Schoot which was a

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of the

Abbey of Echternach The Abbey of Echternach is a Benedictine monastery in the town of Echternach, in eastern Luxembourg. The Abbey was founded in the 7th century by St Willibrord, the patron saint of Luxembourg. For three hundred years, it benefited from the pat ...

. This farm was some distance away from the other farms in the hamlet and was known under the name ''Ter Schoot''. Its name was first mentioned in a leasehold letter from the year 1446. The books of Echternach list ''Ludekijn van der Schoet'' and ''Jan Jans sJonghen'' as the oldest owners. The farm received the name ''Ledige Hoeve'' in the seventeenth century. Later on there were two houses on this location, which were both demolished in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century the hamlet Schoot consisted of twenty houses. The hamlet became connected with a stone paved road when in 1935 a road made out of

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was constructed between Knegsel and Veldhoven.Coenen, Jean (2006) Veldhoven: Van Toterfout tot heden. p. 81, 128, 187, 267 and 349

References

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