Gastel is a village in the

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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

Cranendonck Cranendonck () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in southern Netherlands. Though located in North Brabant near Eindhoven, the spoken dialect is Budels (linguistically a West Limburgish dialect), rather than Kempenlands (linguisti ...

. In 2020, the village had 744 inhabitants.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1307 as Gherardus de Gastele, and means guesthouse/inn. Gastel was home to 79 people in 1840. Gastel was a separate municipality until 1821, when it became a part of

Soerendonk, Sterksel en Gastel Soerendonk, Sterksel en Gastel was a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It consisted of two parts, one containing the village Soerendonk and Gastel and one containing Sterksel Sterksel is a village in the southern Netherlands ...

.Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006.

References

Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Cranendonck {{NorthBrabant-geo-stub