Boxmeer () is a town and former municipality in upper southeastern

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. Boxmeer as a municipality incorporated the former municipality of Beugen en Rijkevoort and that of

Vierlingsbeek Vierlingsbeek () is a village in the former municipality of Boxmeer in North Brabant province of the Netherlands. Until it was included in Boxmeer in 1998, it was a municipality of its own. Since 2022 it has been part of the new municipality of Lan ...

. One of the population centers of the former municipality is

Overloon Overloon is a village with 3,626 inhabitants on the outskirts of the Peel region, in the former municipality of Boxmeer, North Brabant. Since 2022 it has been part of the new municipality of Land van Cuijk. Located on the outskirts is the Nati ...

, where the

Overloon War Museum The Overloon War Museum (''Dutch: Oorlogsmuseum Overloon'') in full 'Dutch National War and Resistance Museum Overloon', is a Dutch historical and educational museum located in the North Brabant village of Overloon. It focuses on the history o ...

is located. Boxmeer,

Cuijk Cuijk (; dialect: ''Kuuk'') is a town in the northeastern part of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, Netherlands. It is the successor of a Roman Empire, Roman settlement on the west bank of the Meuse, south of Nijmegen. ...

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Mill en Sint Hubert Mill en Sint Hubert () is a former municipality in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. Mill en Sint Hubert, Boxmeer, Cuijk, Grave, and Sint Anthonis merged into the new municipality of Land van Cuijk on 1 January 2022. Populatio ...

, and

Sint Anthonis Sint Anthonis () is a village and former municipality in the southern Netherlands in the Province of North Brabant. The locals refer to the town as ''Sint Tunnis''. An inhabitant is called a "Sintunnisenaar". The former municipality had a populati ...

merged into the new municipality of

Land van Cuijk Land van Cuijk is a municipality in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands, formed from the merger of Boxmeer, Cuijk, Sint Anthonis, Mill en Sint Hubert and Grave on 1 January 2022. It belongs to the region of De Peel. The municipality is ma ...

on 1 January 2022.

Topography

Population centres

The population in parts of the former municipality on 31 December 2020 was: * Beugen 1,860 * Boxmeer 12,550 *

Holthees Holthees is a village in the former municipality of Boxmeer on the border of the Netherlands, Dutch provinces North Brabant and Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg. Since 2022 it has been part of the new municipality of Land van Cuijk. History The n ...

540 * Maashees 875 * Oeffelt 2,370 *

, including Heikant 3,985 *

Rijkevoort Rijkevoort is a church village with more than 1600 inhabitants. Until 1942, Rijkevoort together with Beugen formed the municipality of Beugen en Rijkevoort. This municipality was then split and Rijkevoort joined the municipality of Wanroij. Since ...

1,665 *

Sambeek Sambeek is a village in the southern Netherlands. It is located in the former municipality of Boxmeer, North Brabant North Brabant ( ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, Dutch Brabant or Hollandic Brabant, is a province in the south of t ...

1,745 *

, including Groeningen 3,050 * Vortum-Mullem 705

Transport

* Boxmeer railway station

Notable people

* Dr Anna Terruwe (1911 in Vierlingsbeek – 2004) a Catholic psychiatrist who discovered emotional deprivation disorder *

Joannes Gijsen Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen (October 7, 1932 – June 24, 2013) was a Dutch bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. After being Bishop (emeritus) of Roermond, Limburg, the Netherlands, he became Bishop (emeritus) of the Diocese of Reykjavík (I ...

(1932 in Oeffelt – 2013) a Dutch bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of

Roermond Roermond (; or ) is a city, municipality, and diocese in the Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg province of the Netherlands. Roermond is a historically important town on the lower Roer on the east bank of the river Meuse. It received City rights i ...

and

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Emile Roemer Emile Gerardus Maria Roemer (born 24 August 1962) is a Dutch politician serving as King's Commissioner of Limburg since December 2021. A member of the Socialist Party (SP), he was its leader and parliamentary leader in the House of Representative ...

(born 1962 in Boxmeer) a Dutch politician * Hugo van der Velden (born 1963 in Boxmeer) a Dutch art historian *

Charles Deenen Charles Deenen (born 15 January 1970 in Holthees), is a Dutch people, Dutch video game audio director, composer, sound designer, and mixer. He wrote music created sound effects for many Commodore 64 and Amiga games, in addition to working for In ...

(born 1970 in Holthees) a Dutch computer/video game audio director, music composer, sound designer and mixer * Dionne Stax (born 1985 in Boxmeer) a Dutch journalist and newsreader

Sport

* Sjaak Lucassen (born 1961 in Maashees) a Dutch long-distance motorcycle rider * Niels Fleuren (born 1986 in Boxmeer) a Dutch professional footballer with 420 club caps * Sander de Wijn (born 1990 in Boxmeer) a Dutch field hockey player, silver medallist at the

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* Kika van Es (born 1991 in Boxmeer) a Dutch football defender

Gallery

File:Overzicht van de voorgevel - Boxmeer - 20384800 - RCE.jpg, Boxmeer, former townhall File:Boxmeer, de Sint-Petrusbasiliek IMG 8330 2021-02-22 11.17.jpg, Boxmeer, basilica: the Sint-Petrusbasiliek File:Diorama Invasion 1944 in Liberty Park, Overloon War Museum.jpg,

File:Overloon - Dromedaris met tankkoepelbult van Marjolijn Mandersloot op de hoek van de Museumlaan en de Venraijseweg.jpg, Overloon, sculpture File:Vierlingsbeek, de Sint-Laurentiuskerk IMG 8299 2021-02-22 10.02.jpg, Vierlingsbeek, church: Sint Laurentiuskerk File:Oeffelt, molen de Vooruitgang RM481740 IMG 5600 2020-05-21 16.09.jpg, Oeffelt, windmill: molen de Vooruitgang

References

External links

* * Former municipalities of North Brabant Populated places in North Brabant Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2022 Geography of Land van Cuijk {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub