Den Hout is a village in the
Dutch province of
North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of
Oosterhout
Oosterhout (; from ''ooster'', "eastern", and ''hout'', "woods") is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a city in southern Netherlands. The municipality had a population of in .
Population centers
The municipality of Ooste ...
.
The village was first mentioned in 1311 as "Rolinus dictus van den Houte", and means
deciduous forest.
The area around Den Hout was settled during Roman times, but abandoned in 273.
Den Hout developed in the Middle Ages around a triangular village 'square'.
The St Cornelius Church was built in 1877 and 1878 in
Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...
style and as an
octagon
In geometry, an octagon () is an eight-sided polygon or 8-gon.
A '' regular octagon'' has Schläfli symbol and can also be constructed as a quasiregular truncated square, t, which alternates two types of edges. A truncated octagon, t is a ...
spire.
Den Hout was home to 650 people in 1840.
Gallery
File:Paviljoen Het Houtse Meer DSCF8553.jpg, Pavilion Het Houtse Meer
File:P1040943 copyCorneliuskerk (Den Hout).jpg, St Cornelius Church
File:08262002-07 R.K. verenigingsgbouw Den Hout.jpg, Association building
File:Kbs de Achthoek DSCF8541.jpg, School in Den Hout
References
Populated places in North Brabant
Oosterhout
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