Veen 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 th ...

. It is located in the municipality of

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, about 20 km northwest of

's-Hertogenbosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 157,486. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant and its fourth largest by population. The city is south of th ...

. It is infamous for its New Year's Eve tradition during which scrap cars are burnt, and in 2020 even firemen were attacked with fireworks.

History

It was first mentioned between 1108 and 1121 as de Ueno and means

raised bog Raised bogs, also called ombrotrophic bogs, are acidic, wet habitats that are poor in mineral salts and are home to flora and fauna that can cope with such extreme conditions. Raised bogs, unlike fens, are exclusively fed by precipitation (ombrot ...

. Veen is a river bank settlement along the

Afgedamde Maas The Afgedamde Maas (; Dammed-up Meuse) is a former distributary of the Maas River (French: Meuse) in the Dutch provinces of North Brabant and Gelderland. The Maas splits near Heusden with one channel flowing north until its confluence with the r ...

which developed in the Middle Ages. Dutch Reformed church dates from around 1200. The tower was added in the late-13th century. The church was destroyed in 1504 during the

Guelders Wars The Guelders Wars (, German: ''Geldrische Erbfolgekriege'') were a series of conflicts in the Low Countries between the Duke of Burgundy, who controlled Holland, Flanders, Brabant, and Hainaut on the one side, and Charles, Duke of Guelders, ...

, and later rebuilt. The church was enlarged in 1648. During the restoration of 1961 to 1963, it was returned to its medieval shape. The

grist mill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and Wheat middlings, middlings. The term can refer to either the Mill (grinding), grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist i ...

De Hoop was built in 1838. In 1956, it was sold to the municipality who later transferred it to a foundation who restored the mill in 1970. In 1987, it was restored and elevated, because it was hit by trucks several times due to its proximity to the road. Since 2012, it is grinding professionally again. Veen was home to 871 people in 1840. In 1880, the dike breached and most of the village was destroyed. It was later rebuilt. Veen was a separate municipality until 1973, when it became part of Aalburg.

Gallery

File:Veen, molen de Hoop RM6823 foto6 2016-01-23 11.51.jpg, Windmill de Hoop in Veen File:Netherlands, Noord-Brabant, Veen (1).JPG, Veen, seen from Aalst

References

{{Authority control Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Geography of Altena, North Brabant