Vierlingsbeek () is a village in the former municipality of

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 ...

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province of the Netherlands. Until it was included in Boxmeer in 1998, it was a municipality of its own. Since 2022 it has been part of 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 ...

. The

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History

Vierlingsbeek developed in the Early Middle Ages on the river bank of the Maas. In 1756, the village was damaged by a large fire, and it developed along the Venraij to

road. The Dutch Reformed church was built in 1843 after its predecessor from 1804 had partially collapsed in 1839. The clergy house is the former hunting cabin of

William I of the Netherlands William I (Willem Frederik; 24 August 1772 – 12 December 1843) was King of the Netherlands and List of monarchs of Luxembourg, Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1815 until his abdication in 1840. Born as the son of William V, Prince of Orange, ...

. The church was decommissioned in 1997, and is used for weddings, concerts and cultural activities. The Catholic St. Laurentius Church was built between 1952 and 1953 after its 1804 predecessor had been destroyed in 1944. Vierlingsbeek was home to 806 people in 1840. In 1883, a railway station opened on

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railway line. The original building was destroyed in 1945. The village was heavily damaged in 1944. Vierlingsbeek was an independent municipality until 1998 when it was merged into

. In 2022, it became part of the

Gallery

File:Vierlingsbeek, de Sint-Laurentiuskerk IMG 8299 2021-02-22 10.02.jpg, Church: Sint-Laurentiuskerk File:Vierlingsbeek-spoorstraat-219507.jpg, Villa in Vierlingsbeek File:Overzicht vanaf het perron aan de overzijde - Vierlingsbeek - 20346341 - RCE.jpg, Railway station File:Ferry Vierlingsbeek-Bergen Netherland.jpg, Ferry

References

{{Authority control Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 1998 Populated places in North Brabant Former municipalities of North Brabant Geography of Land van Cuijk