Deuteren is a hamlet in the
Dutch
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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 located in the municipality of
's-Hertogenbosch
s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783. It is the capital of ...
, about 2 km west of the city centre.
According to the 19th-century historian A.J. van der Aa,
this hamlet was the location of the first Reformed preaching in the area in 1566, by Cornelis van Diest. In the siege of 's-Hertogenbosch in 1629, Deuteren was the location of the headquarters of colonel Pinsen. The hamlet suffered a lot of damage in the year 1757 by high water and ice shelves.
Formerly, the hamlet was divided into two parts: Groot-Deuteren (the current hamlet) and Klein-Deuteren, about 1 km to the northeast. The latter part had shrunk to only one house in the middle of the 19th century;
nowadays, a suburb of 's-Hertogenbosch covers the area of Klein-Deuteren.
Deuteren was a part of the municipality of
Cromvoirt
Cromvoirt is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Vught.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1312 as Crumvoert, and means "crooked fordable place".
The Catholic St Lambertus Church was b ...
until that municipality merged with
Vught
Vught () is a municipality and a town in the Province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands, and lies just south of the industrial and administrative centre of 's-Hertogenbosch. Many commuters live there, and in 2004 the town was named "Best ...
; at that time, Deuteren became a part of 's-Hertogenbosch.
References
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Populated places in North Brabant
's-Hertogenbosch