Heeze is a town in the Dutch 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

Heeze-Leende Heeze-Leende () is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southern Netherlands, near Eindhoven, North Brabant. It is known for Heeze Castle (''Kasteel Heeze''). The spoken language is "Heeze-en-Leendes", a distinct dialect within ...

, about 9 km southeast of

Eindhoven Eindhoven ( ; ) is a city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also locat ...

. The

Heeze Castle Heeze Castle () is situated in the 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 ...

is located east of the town. Further east and to the north lies the Strabrechtse Heide.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1173 as Herebertus de Hese, and means shrubbery. Heeze is an agricultural community which developed along the Grote and . The ''

heerlijkheid A ''heerlijkheid'' (a Dutch language, Dutch word; pl. ''heerlijkheden''; also called ''heerschap''; Latin: ''Dominium'') was a landed estate that served as the lowest administrative and Judiciary, judicial unit in rural areas in the Dutch-speaking ...

'' Heeze was first mentioned in 1172. A castle has been known since 1203. The current castle dates from the 15th century and enlarged and probably rebuilt in the 17th century. Between 1796 and 1798, a large

English landscape garden The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (, , , , ), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal ...

was laid out around castle. Heeze was home to 1,814 people in 1840. In 1913, a railway station was constructed on the

Weert Weert (; ) is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and city in the southeastern Netherlands located in the western part of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg. It lies on the Eindhoven–Maas ...

railway line. It was closed in 1977, and a new railway station opened on a new location. Heeze was a separate municipality until 1997, when it merged with Leende.

Transportation

Road

Heeze is located close to the A2 and A67 motorways. Local roads connect Heeze to the neighbouring towns of Geldrop, Someren,

Sterksel Sterksel is a village in the southern Netherlands, near Eindhoven. It lies within the municipality Heeze-Leende. It's the smallest village of three in the municipality. The spoken language is "Heeze-en-Leendes", a distinct dialect within the Eas ...

and Leende.

Rail

The Heeze railway station is serviced by regional NS trains in the directions of

and

Tilburg Tilburg () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands, in the southern Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant. With a population of 22 ...

Gallery

File:Heeze001.JPG, Heeze Castle File:Kapelstraat 23, Heeze Cafe De Zwaan GM.JPG, Pub in Heeze File:Brabantsedag 2019 - Vriendenkring De Rijten - fotograaf Malou Evers.jpg, Brabantsedag 2019 File:Gemeentehuis Heeze P1130476.jpg, Town hall

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1997 Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Heeze-Leende