municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
and eponymous village in the province of
North Brabant
North Brabant ( ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, Dutch Brabant or Hollandic 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 ...
in the
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 ...
. Including the villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Neerkant, and Helenaveen, Deurne had a population of in and covers an area of .
History
First recorded as ''Durninum'' (near / by thorns) in a deed of gift from the Frankish Lord Herelaef to bishop
Willibrord
Willibrord (; 658 – 7 November AD 739) was an Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop, and missionary. He became the first Diocese of Utrecht (695–1580), Bishop of Utrecht in what is now the Netherlands, dying at Echternach in Luxembourg, and ...
in 721, Deurne remained a collection of subsistence farming hamlets west of the
Peel
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* Peel (Western Australia)
* Peel, New South Wales
* Peel River (New South Wales)
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* Peel Parish, New Brunswick
* Peel, New Brunswick, an unincorporated community in Peel Parish
* Pee ...
peat
Peat is an accumulation of partially Decomposition, decayed vegetation or organic matter. It is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, Moorland, moors, or muskegs. ''Sphagnum'' moss, also called peat moss, is one of the most ...
railroad
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(Eindhoven - Venlo in 1866) and a
canal
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(
Zuid-Willemsvaart canal
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 B ...
in 1826) enabled the commercial exploitation of the moor. Although the peat industry did not yield much of a
profit
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Business and law
* Profit (accounting), the difference between the purchase price and the costs of bringing to market
* Profit (economics), normal profit and economic profit
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in the era of
coal
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Coal i ...
-powered industries, the cultivation of the newly cleared land, in the 1930s also by
forced labour
Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of ...
, gave a boost to
agriculture
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,
farming
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, and settlement alike. Today only tiny pieces of this former peat moor remain, some reflooded as mini
wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor ( anoxic) processes taking place, especially ...
s, scattered along the
fault line
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that once brought about its very existence.
Coincidentally, the very same Anglo Dutch Griendtsveen Peat Moss Litter Company Ltd. that extracted a significant part of the peat in the
Peel
Peel or Peeling may refer to:
Places Australia
* Peel (Western Australia)
* Peel, New South Wales
* Peel River (New South Wales)
Canada
* Peel Parish, New Brunswick
* Peel, New Brunswick, an unincorporated community in Peel Parish
* Pee ...
Moorends
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)
South Yorkshire
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, U.K., where several of its Dutch employees settled as immigrant workers.
In 2009 the new "Cultural Centre" (''cultureel centrum'') opened its doors. It is the Martien van Doorne Cultuur Centrum and serves as a theatre, concert hall, and movie theatre.
The local dialect is Peellands (an
East Brabantian
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dialect, which is very similar to colloquial
Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
** Dutch people as an ethnic group ()
** Dutch nationality law, history and regulations of Dutch citizenship ()
** Dutch language ()
* In specific terms, i ...
).Jos & Cor Swanenberg: Taal in stad en land: Oost-Brabants,
Lucas Gassel
Lucas Gassel or Lucas van Gassel ( Deurne, Netherlands, c. 1485 – Brussels, 1568 or 1569)Lucas Gassel at the (c.1488 in Deurne – 1568 or 1569) Renaissance painter known for his landscapes
*
Aaltje Noordewier–Reddingius
Aaltje Noordewier–Reddingius (née Reddingius; 1 September 1868, Deurne (Netherlands), Deurne – 6 April 1949) was a Dutch classical soprano who had an active performance career in the concert repertoire from 1888 through the 1930s. She was a ...
(1868 in Deurne – 1949) Dutch classical soprano and voice teacher
* Jules de Corte (1924 in Deurne – 1996) blind singer-songwriter from the Netherlands
*
Laurens van den Acker
Laurens van den Acker (born 5 September 1965, Deurne, North Brabant) is a Dutch automobile designer. He is the Chief Design Officer of the Renault Group.
Biography
Van den Acker studied at the Delft University of Technology, where he obt ...
(born 1965 in Deurne) automobile designer
* Erik van Lieshout (born 1968 in Deurne) Dutch contemporary artist
*
Yara Kastelijn
Yara Kastelijn (born 9 August 1997) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently competes in cyclo-cross for UCI Cyclo-cross Team Credishop–Fristads, and in road cycling for UCI Women's WorldTeam .
In 2019, she won the elite race at the European ...
(born 1997 in Deurne) Dutch racing cyclist
Gallery
File:Dr. Anna Terruweplein Deurne P1050447.jpg, Dr. Anna Terruweplein, Deurne
File:Deurne, de Sint Willibrorduskerk RM12372 foto6 2014-05-18 11.42.jpg, Deurne, church: de Sint Willibrorduskerk
File:140704 HANENBERGWEG ZEILBERG DEURNE 't Benkske.JPG, Wooden meeting place, known as Little Bench
File:Geldersestraat 10-12 voorm tabakschuur..JPG, Geldersestraat 10-12