Budel is a town in the
Dutch province of
North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of
Cranendonck, 25 km outside
Eindhoven
Eindhoven ( ; ) is a city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also locat ...
.
Kempen Airport is located near Budel.
History
It was first mentioned in 779 as Budilio, and means "place with houses". Budel developed in the Early Middle Ages from a collection of agrarian settlements around the Buulder Aa. In 1421, it became part of the
Meierij van 's-Hertogenbosch.
The Catholic Visitation of the Virgin Mary is a basilica-like church built between 1904 and 1912 with a tall tower. The Schepenhuis is located on the main market and was built in 1771. It has been used as town hall, but also as market. In 1981 and 1982, it was restored and returned to its original 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 grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that h ...
Nooit Gedagt was built in 1846. The windmill started to be used less during the 1960s. In 1967, however, it was restored and heightened. The windmill is still in use on Saturdays and sometimes during the week.
Budel was home to 440 people in 1840.
Budel used to be a separate municipality. It merged with
Maarheeze in 1997, and changed its name a year later to Cranendonck. It is home to the
Budelse Brouwerij, one of the country's largest microbreweries.
South of the town the large zinc smelter of
Nyrstar (named
Umicore before 2007) is located.
Though located in
North Brabant near Eindhoven, the spoken dialect is Budels (linguistically a
Limburgish
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dialect), rather than
Kempenlands (linguistically an
East Brabantian dialect).
Gallery
File:Budel - Markt 1 Voormalig schepenhuis.JPG, Schepenhuis: the former town hall
File:2016 Klooster Budel.jpg, Monastery
File:Budel, molen2 foto2 2009-08-31 18.12.JPG, Wind mill Nooitgedagt
File:Brouwhuis.jpg, Brewery
References
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Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1998
Populated places in North Brabant
Former municipalities of North Brabant
Cranendonck