Sambeek is a village in the southern

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. 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 the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to ...

. Since 2022 it has been part of the new municipality of Land van Cuijk.

History

Sambeek is a

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which developed on the river bank of the Maas in the Early Middle Ages. The tower of Sambeek is, with its height of 50 meters, the centre of the village. The oldest part of the tower dates from 1486. This tower was a part of the local

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church, which was blown up by the Germans in the

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. Their plan to blow up the tower failed, it was only slightly damaged. The St John the Baptist Church was built as the replacement of the destroyed church in 1952, but is detached from the tower. The thickest

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in the Netherlands stands in the southern part of Sambeek. Its age is estimated at 500. The former

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monastery was founded in 1874. In 1882, a wing with chapel was added in

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style. Sambeek was home to 703 people in 1840. It was an independent municipality until 1942, when the municipality was divided between

Oploo, Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker Oploo, Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker was a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It was created in 1821, in a merger of Oploo Oploo is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the former municipality of Sint ...

and Vierlingsbeek. The village was severely damaged in 1944 during

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. Sambeek became part of the municipality of Land van Cuijk in 2022.

Gallery

File:Sambeek, de toren van de Sint Jan de Doperkerk RM10049 foto6 2015-11-02 13.56.jpg, Churchtower (St John the Baptist church) File:T.T Klooster Grotestraat 69 Sambeek 518530 (2).JPG, Former monastery of Sambeek Image:Lime tree in Sambeek 75dpi.jpg, The lime tree File:Veer aan de Maas - panoramio.jpg, Ferry across the Meuse In January of 2024, the construction began of the 'Duvelshof'. It replaced the St John the Baptist Church and is as of October 2024, completed.

References

{{Authority control Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Geography of Land van Cuijk