Sint-Michielsgestel () 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 southern part of the

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 ...

. It is named for the village of

Sint-Michielsgestel Sint-Michielsgestel () is a village in the municipality of Sint-Michielsgestel, Netherlands. Geography The 120 km long river Dommel flows north from a well near Peer in Belgium. Just north of 's-Hertogenbosch it is joined by the Aa and ...

located within its boundaries.

Population centres

Berlicum Berlicum is a town in the south of the Netherlands, located in North Brabant's Meierij region near the city of s-Hertogenbosch and the river Aa. The town was most likely founded between 600 and 700 AD. It was a municipality along with the villag ...

Den Dungen Den Dungen is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Sint-Michielsgestel next to the village Maaskantje. History The village was first mentioned in 1300 as "Super Donghen prope Buscum", and means ...

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Smaller townships, also part of Sint-Michielsgestel, are: Besselaar, Doornhoek,

Haanwijk Haanwijk is an Estate (land), estate and nature reserve with a manor house near Sint-Michielsgestel in North-Brabant, Netherlands. Nature Reserve The Haanwijk nature reserve that is now owned by Brabants Landschap measures 431 hectares. It i ...

, Hal, Halder, De Bus, De Hogert, De Loofaart, Heikantse Hoeve, Hersend, Hezelaar, Hoek, Kerkeind,

Laar Laar () is a community in the district of Grafschaft Bentheim in Lower Saxony. The community’s name comes from the Old Dutch for “glade in the woods”. Geography Location Laar lies northwest of Nordhorn on the German-Dutch border. It belong ...

Maaskantje Maaskantje () is a village in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands. The village is part of the municipality of Sint-Michielsgestel, southeast of 's-Hertogenbosch. History The village was first mentioned in 1750 as "nabij het Maaskantje te G ...

, , Nijvelaar, Plein, , Ruimel, Tielse Hoeve, Wielsche Hoeven, and Woud.

Contemporary Sint-Michielsgestel

The municipality consists of a number of villages and rural areas just south and south east of 's-Hertogenbosch. Most inhabitants are commuters preferring to live in these quite villages, while working elsewhere. There is little industrial activity in the villages, but the agricultural sector is certainly important. Sint-Michielsgestel and Gemonde are in the

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...

of the river

Dommel The Dommel is a small river in Belgium and the Netherlands, left tributary of the Dieze. It is 120 km long, of which 85 km in the Netherlands. The Dommel takes in water from the Keersop, Tongelreep, Run, Gender and Kleine Dommel streams and merg ...

. Den Dungen, Berlicum and Middelrode are in that of the

Aa (Meuse) The Aa () is a small river in the Netherlands. It rises near Nederweert in the southeastern province of Limburg, in the Peel region. It flows northwest through the province of North Brabant towards 's-Hertogenbosch, roughly along the Zuid-Wille ...

and the

Zuid-Willemsvaart The Zuid-Willemsvaart (; translated: ''South William's Canal'') is a canal in the south of the Netherlands and the east of Belgium. Route The Zuid-Willemsvaart is a canal in the provinces Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg (Belgium) and North Br ...

. It makes that there are very few roads connecting these two groups of settlements.

History

The current municipality Sint-Michielsgestel was created in 1996. That year the municipalities of

(est. 1810) and

(est. 1238) were merged. The entire village of Gemonde, which had previously been part of Boxtel, Sint-Michielsgestel, Sint-Oedenrode and Schijndel, was added to the new municipality.

Local government

The municipal council of Sint-Michielsgestel consists of 21 seats, which are divided as follows after the municipal elections of March 16 2012: * Local Political Alliance (Plaatselijke Politieke Alliantie) - 7 seats * CDA - 4 seats * Dorpsgoed - 3 seats *

GroenLinks GroenLinks (, ) is a green political party in the Netherlands. It was formed on 1 March 1989 from the merger of four left-wing parties: the Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals and t ...

/ PvdA - 2 seats * De Gestelse Coalitie - 2 seats *

VVD The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy ( nl, Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie ; VVD) is a conservative-liberal Andeweg, R. and G. Irwin ''Politics and Governance in the Netherlands'', Basingstoke (Palgrave) p.49 political party in ...

- 2 seats * D66 - 1 seat At the moment, the municipal board (

college van burgemeester en wethouders In the Netherlands, the municipal executive (, ) is the executive board of a municipality. It plays a central role in municipal politics in the Netherlands, similar to the communal college in Belgium. It consists of the mayor and the members of t ...

) is formed by the Local Political Alliance, CDA and GroenLinks/PvdA.

Notable people

Gerrit Braks Gerardus Johannes Maria "Gerrit" Braks (23 May 1933 – 12 July 2017) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and agronomist. Braks applied at the Wageningen Agr ...

(1933–2017) a Dutch politician and agronomist *

Cas Wouters Casparus Adrianus Petrus Maria "Cas" Wouters (born 1943 in Sint-Michielsgestel) is a Dutch sociologist. He studied sociology in Amsterdam. At present he is a researcher at Utrecht University, affiliated with the Amsterdam School for Social Scie ...

(born 1943) a Dutch sociologist who embraces

figurational sociology Figurational sociology is a research tradition in which figurations of humans—evolving networks of interdependent humans—are the unit of investigation. Although more a methodological stance than a determinate school of practice, the tradition h ...

Anneke van Giersbergen Anna Maria "Anneke" van Giersbergen (born 8 March 1973) is a Dutch singer, songwriter and guitarist who became known worldwide as the lead singer for the rock band The Gathering between 1994 and 2007. She also has a solo career. The project wa ...

(born 1973) a Dutch singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist; IMDb Database
retrieved 30 March 2020 formerly of The Gathering

Sport

* Jan van Grinsven (born 1960 in Den Dungen) a former football goalkeeper with 484 club caps * Ronald Jansen (born 1963) a former field hockey goalkeeper, gold medallist in the

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

and

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

Kees Akerboom Jr. Kees Akerboom Jr. (born 20 December 1983) is a retired Dutch basketball player. Kees is the son of Kees Akerboom Sr., a former successful professional basketball player as well. During the majority of his career, Akerboom played with Den Bosch Ba ...

(born 1983) a retired Dutch basketball player *

Tom van Weert Tom van Weert (born 7 June 1990) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Greek Super League club AEK Athens. Career Den Bosch Van Weert made his debut in professional football in the Eerste Divisie (second-tier) for Den ...

(born 1990) a footballer with 230 club caps, currently playing at

Volos Volos ( el, Βόλος ) is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about north of Athens and south of Thessaloniki. It is the sixth most populous city of Greece, and the capital of the Magnesia regional unit ...

, Greece

Gallery

File:Sint-Michielsgestel, de Toren RM33633 IMG 8638 2021-03-29 14.06.jpg, Sint-Michielsgestel, the Tower File:Sint-Michielsgestel, de Genenberg RM33626 IMG 8629 2021-03-29 13.49.jpg, Sint-Michielsgestel, windmill: the Genenberg Image:Sint Michielsgestel, de Dommel 2010-04-10 17.07.JPG, The Dommel near Sint Michielsgestel File:Dommel-bij-Gemonde.JPG, Dommel near Gemonde Image:Berlicum, kerk foto3 2010-04-10 16.05.JPG, Berlicum, church File:Berlicum, moderne kunst op verkeersplein foto3 2010-04-10 16.12.JPG, Berlicum, modern art on the street Image:Den Dungen, kerk foto5 2010-04-10 16.31.JPG, Den Dungen, church

References

External links

* * {{Authority control Municipalities of North Brabant Populated places in North Brabant