Vlierden 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 we ...

. It is located in the

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of Deurne, about 20 km east of

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'') trees". Vlierden is an agrarian community from the Early Middle Ages. For a short while, it was a ''

heerlijkheid A ''heerlijkheid'' (a Dutch word; pl. ''heerlijkheden''; also called ''heerschap''; Latin: ''Dominium'') was a landed estate that served as the lowest administrative and judicial unit in rural areas in the Dutch-speaking Low Countries before 1800. ...

''. The St Willibrordus was originally built in 1846, and expanded in 1920. It was severely damaged in 1944, and received a new front in 1956. Vlierden was home to 217 people in 1840. Vlierden was a separate municipality until 1926, when it merged with Deurne en Liessel to form the new municipality "Deurne". The spoken language is Peellands (an

East Brabantian East Brabantian ( nl, Oost Noord-Brabants or Oost Brabants) is one of the main divisions of the Brabantian dialect group recognized by the ''Woordenboek van de Brabantse dialecten''. East Brabantian dialects are mainly spoken in the eastern part of ...

dialect, which is very similar to colloquial

).Jos & Cor Swanenberg: Taal in stad en land: Oost-Brabants,

Gallery

File:0762WN049 Sint-Willibrorduskerk te Vlierden 2.jpg, St Willibrordus Church File:Hoeve Vorst met Ties Verbeten en familie van Paassen.jpg, Farm in Vlierden File:Vlierdenseweg Landzic ht Vlierden Los 1430.jpg, House in Vlierden File:Kerk vlierden.jpg, Ruins of the old church

References

Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Deurne, Netherlands {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub