Cuijk () is a former municipality in upper southeastern

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. Cuijk,

Boxmeer Boxmeer () is a town and former municipality in upper southeastern Netherlands. Boxmeer as a municipality incorporated the former municipality of Beugen en Rijkevoort and that of Vierlingsbeek. One of the population centers of the former municip ...

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Mill en Sint Hubert Mill en Sint Hubert () is a former municipality in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. Mill en Sint Hubert, Boxmeer, Cuijk, Grave, and Sint Anthonis merged into the new municipality of Land van Cuijk on 1 January 2022. Populatio ...

, and

Sint Anthonis Sint Anthonis () is a village and former municipality in the southern Netherlands in the Province of North Brabant. The locals refer to the town as ''Sint Tunnis''. An inhabitant is called a "Sintunnisenaar". The former municipality had a populati ...

merged into the new municipality of

Land van Cuijk Land van Cuijk is a municipality in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands, formed from the merger of Boxmeer, Cuijk, Sint Anthonis, Mill en Sint Hubert and Grave on 1 January 2022. It belongs to the region of De Peel. The municipality is ma ...

on 1 January 2022. The former municipality of Cuijk was established by combining the municipalities of Cuijk en Sint Agatha, Beers and Haps in 1994.

Population centres

The main population center Cuijk is of pre-historic origin. Its existence is recorded on the Roman roadmap

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under the name of ''Ceuclum''. It is a big

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with good public transport services to nearby

Nijmegen Nijmegen ( , ; Nijmeegs: ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and the ninth largest of the Netherlands as a whole. Located on the Waal River close to the German border, Nijmegen is one of the oldest cities in the ...

. The nearest hospital is at Boxmeer and the nearest international airport is situated in the German town of Weeze. Cuijk railway station is on the Nijmegen to Venlo railway. Population centers and inhabitants in 2020: *

Cuijk Cuijk (; dialect: ''Kuuk'') is a town in the northeastern part of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, Netherlands. It is the successor of a Roman Empire, Roman settlement on the west bank of the Meuse, south of Nijmegen. ...

18,170 * Beers 1,680 * Haps 2,850 * Katwijk 395 * Linden 270 * Sint Agatha 495 * Vianen 1,280

Topography

''Map of the former municipality of Cuijk, 2015'' Stationcuijk

Transportation

* Cuijk railway station

Twin towns

Cuijk was twinned with

Notable people

* Jan de Quay (1901 – 1985 in Beers) Dutch politician, psychologist and

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1959–1963 * Pieter Bogaers (1924 in Cuijk – 2008) Dutch politician * Jordie van der Laan (born 1993 in Cuijk) Dutch football player

Gallery

Image:Cuijk, l'église St.Martin.JPG, Cuijk, church: Sint-Martinuskerk Sint-Martinuskerk in Cuijk, NL (DSCF7731).jpg, Sint-Martinuskerk viewed from the Maas river Image:Cuijk, Molen Jan van Cuijk RM11621 IMG 0578 2022-03-13 12.59.jpg, Cuijk, windmill: windmolen Jan van Cuijk File:In between Katwijk and Linden (Cuijk, N-Br, NL) former town hall ( ca. 1880 - 1942).JPG, Former town hall, between Katwijk and Linden Image:Vianen, kerk foto3 2011-03-08 13.40.JPG, Vianen, church File:Kraaijenbergse Plassen, ophaalbrug foto10 2017-02-15 13.06.jpg, Kraaijenbergse Plassen, double-beam drawbridge

References

External links

* * Former municipalities of North Brabant Municipalities of the Netherlands established in 1994 Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2022 * {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub