Geldrop is a town in the

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province of

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. It is in the municipality of

Geldrop-Mierlo Geldrop-Mierlo () is a municipality in the southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. The municipality was created from the two former municipalities of Geldrop and Mierlo on 1 January 2004. Villages Geldrop-Mierlo had a population ...

, around 5 km east of

Eindhoven Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,Mierlo Mierlo is a town in the southern Netherlands, in the municipality of Geldrop-Mierlo, North Brabant. Until 2004, it was a separate municipality with an area of . Mierlo is home to a few interesting buildings, for example the old Council house and ...

. Geldrop is noted for having a neighbourhood with streets named after characters and elements from the works of

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. The spoken language is "Geldrops", a distinct dialect within the

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dialect group and very similar to colloquial

Transport

The A67 motorway (part of European route E34) links Geldrop with Eindhoven. Geldrop railway station is on the Eindhoven–Weert line.

Archaeology in Geldrop

Geldrop has proven a fertile ground for

archaeological Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscape ...

digs, with finds from various historical and prehistorical eras. The exact age of Geldrop isn't known. Through the years, several archaeological finds were made which testify to

prehistoric Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use o ...

occupants. Where over 10.000 years ago

reindeer Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subsp ...

hunters of the so-called

Ahrensburg culture The Ahrensburg culture or Ahrensburgian (c. 12,900 to 11,700 BP) was a late Upper Paleolithic nomadic hunter culture (or technocomplex) in north-central Europe during the Younger Dryas, the last spell of cold at the end of the Weichsel glacia ...

placed their tents, the finds on the Geldrops grounds included, among other things, two toes with engraving. On one of them a reindeer horn was represented, on the other one a dancing little girl who got nicknamed "The

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". Finds in the south of Zesgehuchten (a district of Geldrop) indicate small settlements from the

New Stone Age The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several par ...

(about 3000 BC). Finds from the

Roman Period The Roman Empire ( la, Imperium Romanum ; grc-gre, Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, Basileía tôn Rhōmaíōn) was the post- Republican period of ancient Rome. As a polity, it included large territorial holdings around the Mediter ...

and the early

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have been found off Genoenhuis and Hoog Geldrop (districts in Geldrop). In the autumn of 1989, archaeological diggings at the nearby 't Zand Cemetery found four settlements from the late Roman Period and the Middle Ages: a period which covers the years between 350 and 1225 AD.

Gallery

File:Sint-Brigidakerk (Geldrop) P1060767.JPG, Geldrop, church: Sint Brigidakerk Image:Geldrop, molen 't Nupke RM16032 foto13 2016-10-16 17.06.jpg, Geldrop, windmill: korenmolen 't Nupke File:Centrum Geldrop P1060740.JPG, Centre of Geldrop File:Centrum Geldrop P1060758.JPG, Building in Geldrop

Famous people from Geldrop

Dries van Agt Andreas Antonius Maria "Dries" van Agt (; born 2 February 1931) is a Dutch politician and diplomat of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist who served as Prime Minister of t ...

(born 1931), former prime minister *

Ernest Faber Ernest Anthonius Jacobus Faber (born 27 August 1971) is a Dutch professional football manager and former player. He was most recently head coach of caretaker manager of Eredivisie side PSV Eindhoven. Faber grew up in Eindhoven and played youth ...

(born 1971), footballer for

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and the

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* A. F. Th. van der Heijden (born 1951), writer *

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(born 1994), motocross world champion *

Pieter van den Hoogenband Pieter Cornelis Martijn van den Hoogenband (; born 14 March 1978) is a Dutch retired swimmer. He is a triple Olympic champion and former world record holder. Early life Born in Maastricht, Limburg, he is the son of Cees-Rein van den Hoogenba ...

(born 1978), swimmer, Winner Olympic Gold * Viktor Horsting (born 1969), fashion designer * Guido Imbens (born 1963), Economist, Winner of the

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Art Rooijakkers Art Rooijakkers (born 29 August 1976) is a Dutch television presenter. He is best known as the presenter of the popular television show '' Wie is de Mol?'' from 2012 to 2018. Career In 2011, Rooijakkers presented the Dutch version of the gam ...

(born 1976), television presenter * Kelly van Santvoort (born 1992), communicator

References

External links

Website GeldropWebsite Geldrop Centrum (Dutch)
{{Authority control Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2004 Former municipalities of North Brabant Populated places in North Brabant Geldrop-Mierlo