Cuijk () is a former municipality in upper southeastern

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. Cuijk,

Boxmeer Boxmeer () is a town and former municipality in upper southeastern Netherlands. Boxmeer as a municipality incorporated the former municipality of Beugen en Rijkevoort and that of Vierlingsbeek. In Overloon is the Overloon War Museum. Boxmeer, ...

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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. Population c ...

, 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. The municipality came into existence on 1 January 2022. It belongs to the regio ...

on 1 January 2022. The former municipality of Cuijk was established by combining the municipalities of

Cuijk en Sint Agatha Cuijk en Sint Agatha is a former municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It covered the villages of Cuijk and Sint Agatha. On September 4, 1315, a document mentioned a ''kapel van Sint Agatha onder Kuycbrockele''. The Crosier Monastery ...

Beers Beers may refer to: * plural of beer, an alcoholic beverage * Beers (surname) * Beers, Friesland, a Dutch place in the Friesland municipality of Littenseradiel * Beers, North Brabant Beers (Brabants: ''Bèèrs'') is a village in the former Dutc ...

and

Haps Haps is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the former municipality of Cuijk, about south of the town of Cuijk. Since 2022 it has been part of the new municipality of Land van Cuijk. History The village was firs ...

in 1994.

Population centres

The main population center Cuijk is of pre-historic origin. Its existence is recorded on the Roman roadmap

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under the name of ''Ceuclum''. It is a big

commuter town A commuter town is a populated area that is primarily residential rather than commercial or industrial. Routine travel from home to work and back is called commuting, which is where the term comes from. A commuter town may be called by many o ...

with good public transport services to nearby

Nijmegen Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...

. The nearest hospital is at Boxmeer and the nearest international airport is situated in the German town of Weeze. Cuijk has a railway station on the Nijmegen to Venlo railway. Population centers and inhabitants in 2020: *

Cuijk Cuijk (; dialect: ''Kuuk'') is a town in the northeastern part of the province of North Brabant, Netherlands. It is the successor of a Roman settlement on the west bank of the Meuse, 13 km (8 mi) south of Nijmegen. Cuijk, which had a po ...

18,170 *

1,680 *

2,850 * Katwijk 395 * Linden 270 * Sint Agatha 495 * Vianen 1,280

Topography

''Map of the former municipality of Cuijk, 2015'' Stationcuijk

Transportation

* Cuijk railway station

Twin towns

Cuijk is twinned with

Notable people

Jan de Quay Jan Eduard de Quay (26 August 1901 – 4 July 1985) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) now the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and psychologist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 19 Ma ...

(1901 – 1985 in Beers) a Dutch politician and psychologist,

Prime Minister of the Netherlands The prime minister of the Netherlands ( nl, Minister-president van Nederland) is the head of the executive branch of the Government of the Netherlands. Although the monarch is the ''de jure'' head of government, the prime minister ''de facto'' ...

1959/1963 *

Pieter Bogaers Petrus Clemens Wilhelmus Maria "Pieter" Bogaers (2 July 1924 – 5 July 2008) was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later co-founder of the Political Party of Radicals (PPR). Decorations References External link ...

(1924 in Cuijk – 2008) a Dutch politician * Jordie van der Laan (born 1993 in Cuijk) a Dutch football player

Gallery

Image:Cuijk, l'église St.Martin.JPG, Cuijk, church: Sint-Martinuskerk Sint-Martinuskerk in Cuijk, NL (DSCF7731).jpg, Sint-Martinuskerk viewed from the Maas river Image:Cuijk, molen foto8 2011-03-08 10.59.JPG, Cuijk, windmill: windmolen Jan van Cuijk File:In between Katwijk and Linden (Cuijk, N-Br, NL) former town hall ( ca. 1880 - 1942).JPG, Former town hall, between Katwijk and Linden Image:Vianen, kerk foto3 2011-03-08 13.40.JPG, Vianen, church File:Kraaijenbergse Plassen, ophaalbrug foto10 2017-02-15 13.06.jpg, Kraaijenbergse Plassen, double-beam drawbridge

References

External links

* * Former municipalities of North Brabant Municipalities of the Netherlands established in 1994 Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2022 * {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub