Prinsenbeek
Prinsenbeek is village and a former municipalty in the
Dutch province
Noord-Brabant. The village is situated western of the motorway A16 (
Rotterdam -
Antwerpen) and the
TGV-line
Amsterdam -
Paris. Prinsenbeek is a part of the parish
Breda, and it has 11,419 inhabitants (2005). There is a
train station on the line Rotterdam - Breda. When it is
carnival, Prinsenbeek is calle Boemeldonck (slowtrainswamp).
Initially, the village was called Beek. The Prinsenhoeve at Beek was built in the
14th century, and that is the first appearance of this village. Beek became in
1796 an own parish. On
july 1 1866 the train station Prinsenbeek was built.
The municipalty Beek was founded in
1942, during the
second world war, when the town
Princenhage was added to the town Breda. The village, with a church, became a municpalty on its own. In
1951, the name was changed into Prinsenbeek, because there were several more towns called beek (one in
Limburg and one in
Gelderland. Because of a royal decision, on
january 12 1951, Prinsenbeek got a town arms, and on
october 11 1963, the town council decided to have a town flag. On
july 1 1976, the area, eastern of the railway was added to Breda. Finally, at the municipal redividing on
january 1 1997, Prinsenbeek was added to Breda.
Prinsenbeek has some civil monuments.The pump at the Markt is a reconstruction from
1975 of the pump from
1874, which was destroyed in
1935.
The Mariachapel was built in
1953, and renamed in
1980 into 'Chapel of Peace', in remembrance of the people who died in the second World War.
The church, built on the Maket square.
A sculpture of a slowtrain, which was used to drive on the railroad.
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Dutch website of Prinsenbeek*
Town arms of Prinsenbeek, with explanation in Dutch*
Map of Prinsenbeek(
