Castelré () is a village in the
Dutch 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 ...
. It is a part of the municipality of
Baarle-Nassau
Baarle-Nassau () is a municipality and town in the southern Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. It had a population of in . The town is the site of a complicated borderline between Belgium and the Netherlands: it encloses 22 ...
, and lies some 20 km south of
Breda
Breda ( , , , ) is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant. ...
.
In 2000 a millennium chapel was built at the "Kempische-driehoek" 't Groesje.
Castelré belongs to the parish of Sint-Clemenskerk,
Minderhout.
As Minderhout is a Belgian village in the community of
Hoogstraten only a few hundred metres to the west, people are more oriented to Minderhout than to their official municipality of Baarle-Nassau, over 10 km to the east.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1231 as "de molendino de Casterle". The etymology is unclear.
Castelré was home to 305 people in 1840.
In 1970, a monument was unveiled for the first air balloon to land in the Netherlands. The balloon was launched in 1870 in Paris, and supposed to land in France.
In 1978, the village was entered in the postal database as Castelre without an accent. As of 2022, it has not been corrected.
Gallery
File:Monument Luchtballonlanding Archimedes Constant Grooten Castelré.jpg, Monument to the air balloon landing
File:Netherlands, Baarle-Nassau, Castelré (1).JPG, Farm in Castelré
File:Netherlands, Baarle-Nassau, Castelré (3).JPG, Street view
References
Populated places in North Brabant
Baarle-Nassau
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