Sint Anthonis () is a village and former municipality in the southern

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in the 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 ...

. The locals refer to the town as ''Sint Tunnis''. An inhabitant is called a "Sintunnisenaar". The former municipality had a population of in . Sint Anthonis,

Boxmeer Boxmeer () is a town and former municipality in upper southeastern Netherlands. Boxmeer as a municipality incorporated the former municipality of Beugen en Rijkevoort and that of Vierlingsbeek. One of the population centers of the former municip ...

Cuijk Cuijk (; dialect: ''Kuuk'') is a town in the northeastern part of the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Brabant, Netherlands. It is the successor of a Roman Empire, Roman settlement on the west bank of the Meuse, south of Nijmegen. ...

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, and

Mill en Sint Hubert Mill en Sint Hubert () is a former municipality in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. Mill en Sint Hubert, Boxmeer, Cuijk, Grave, and Sint Anthonis merged into the new municipality of Land van Cuijk on 1 January 2022. Populatio ...

merged into the new municipality of

Land van Cuijk Land van Cuijk is a municipality in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands, formed from the merger of Boxmeer, Cuijk, Sint Anthonis, Mill en Sint Hubert and Grave on 1 January 2022. It belongs to the region of De Peel. The municipality is ma ...

on 1 January 2022.

History

The town was mentioned in a last will as early as 1312. The town was called ''Oelbroec'' at the time. As the church of St. Anthony The Abbot was completed in 1477, people started referring to the town as the "Parish of St. Anthony in Oelbroec", and by 1570 the name Oelbroec had disappeared. Church Book registration started in 1640 and are to be found on the BHIC web site. Sint Anthonis was a part of the lordship of Boxmeer during the ancien régime. After the French rule, Sint Anthonis was parted from Boxmeer. Together with the village of Ledeacker it formed the municipality of "Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker". In 1821

Oploo Oploo is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the former municipality of Sint Anthonis. Since 2022 it has been part of the new municipality of Land van Cuijk. History Oploo developed in the valley of a brook in t ...

joined this municipality, now called "Oploo, Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker". In 1913 this municipality had 1769 inhabitants, of which 906 men and 863 women, and of which 965 lived in the village of Sint Anthonis. The surface of the municipality existed of 3818 ha (with 46,33 inhabitants per km²). On 1 January 1994 the municipality of

Wanroij Wanroij is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the former municipality of Sint Anthonis, about 9 km west of the town of Boxmeer. Wanroij was a separate municipality until 1994, when it became part of Sint An ...

fused with the municipality of

Oploo, Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker Oploo, Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker was a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It was created in 1821, in a merger of Oploo Oploo is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the former municipality of Sint ...

into the new municipality of Sint Anthonis. On 4 July 1994 also the name of the village was changed: ''St. Anthonis'' became ''Sint Anthonis''.

Population centres

Topography

''Map of the former municipality of Sint Anthonis, 2015'' MonicHendrickx2019a

Notable people

* Piet de Bekker (1921 in Empel – 2013) a Dutch politician. *

Dien Cornelissen Gerardina Maria Paulina "Dien" Cornelissen (8 May 1924 – 25 May 2015) was a Dutch politician and social worker. She started her political career in the municipal council of Boxmeer for the Catholic People's Party in 1958, where she would contin ...

(1924 in Oploo – 2015) a Dutch politician and social worker *

Monic Hendrickx Monic Hendrickx (born 3 December 1966 in Sint Anthonis) is a Dutch actress. She has won several awards during her career including four Golden Calf awards for Best Actress at the Nederlands Film Festival, the Jury Award at the 2001 Newport Be ...

(born 1966 in Sint Anthonis) a Dutch actress IMDb Database
retrieved 4 October 2019

Sport

Piet van Katwijk Pieter Gerardus van Katwijk (27 February 1950 – 24 February 2025) was a Dutch cyclist who was active between 1969 and 1983. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and finished in eleventh place in the road race. He won the Milk Race (1973) an ...

(born 1950 n Oploo) a retired Dutch cyclist, competed at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially branded as Munich 1972 (; ), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. It was the ...

* Fons van Katwijk (born 1951 in Oploo) a retired Dutch cyclist, competed at the

1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ...

Gallery

File:Oploo Kerk.JPG, Oploo Kerk File:Stevensbeek - Kloosterstraat 2 Voormalige hooischuur van de ontginningsboerderij Lactaria.JPG, Stevensbeek - Kloosterstraat, Voormalige hooischuur File:20100724-059 Oploo - Tontje d'n Dwerg.jpg, Statue of "''Tôntje d'n Dwerg''" in front of the water mill D'n Olliemeulen in Oploo File:20100724-023 Wanroij - Sculptuur.jpg, Sculpture "''Vrouwen van de bron''" at the Giesenplein in Wanroij

References

External links

* * {{Authority control Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Municipalities of the Netherlands established in 1994 Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2022 Geography of Land van Cuijk