Schijndel () is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an o ...

and former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the ...

in the southern

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, in the province of North Brabant. Schijndel is located approximately southeast 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 ...

. Schijndel was founded on 6 December in the year 1309. On 1 January 2017 Schijndel, together with

Veghel Veghel () is a town and a former municipality in the southern Netherlands. On 1 January 2017 Veghel, together with Schijndel and Sint-Oedenrode, merged into a new municipality called Meierijstad creating the largest municipality of the provi ...

and

Sint-Oedenrode Sint-Oedenrode () is a town in the province of North Brabant. Sint-Oedenrode is a moderately urbanized town in the Meierij of 's-Hertogenbosch. Sint-Oedenrode had an unknown population as of and has an area of . On 1 January 2017 Sint-Oedenrod ...

, merged into a new municipality called

Meierijstad Meierijstad () is a municipality in the province of North Brabant. The municipality is the result of a merger between the municipalities Schijndel, Sint-Oedenrode and Veghel in 2017. After the merger it became the largest municipality in terms o ...

creating the largest municipality of the province North-Brabant in terms of land area.

Population centres

*Schijndel * Wijbosch The municipality had a population of in . This figure has remained virtually unchanged since the 1990s.

Topography

''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Schijndel, June 2015''

Notable residents

* Gérard Buzen, Belgian general\minister of defense * André Gevers, cyclist *

Winy Maas Wilhelmus "Winy" Maas (born 1959 in Schijndel) is a Dutch architect, landscape architect, professor and urbanist. In 1993 together with Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries he set up MVRDV. Education He completed his studies at the RHSTL Boskoo ...

, architect * Wiljan Vloet, football manager *

Rai Vloet Rai Vloet (born 8 May 1995) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Russian club Ural Yekaterinburg. Club career Vloet was born in Schijndel. He made his professional debut as Jong PSV player in the second d ...

, football player and son of Wiljan Vloet * Carli Hermès, photographer and director * Jack de Gier, football player * Hein van de Geyn, jazz bassist * Sissy van Alebeek, cyclist *

Ronald Mutsaars Ronald Mutsaars (born 19 April 1979 in Schijndel) is a Dutch former cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2002 to 2005 with . He rode in the 2003 and 2004 Vuelta a España, as well as the 2005 Paris–Roubaix. His brother Guido and fathe ...

, cyclist *

Manon van den Boogaard ''Manon'' () is an ''opéra comique'' in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel '' L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut'' by the Abbé Prévost. It was fi ...

, football player * Said Ali Hussein, football player

Trivia

In the 2010 film New Kids Turbo, the city is hit by a huge bomb that was originally intended to destroy neighboring Maaskantje. Finally, in the sequel New Kids Nitro, a bitter fight rages between a group of young men and a woman from Schijndel and a group of young men from Maaskantje. This also brought Schijndel to the attention of New Kids fans, who had previously almost exclusively traveled to Maaskantje to visit locations from the series and the films.

References

Meierijstad Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2017 {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub