Leudal

Leudal (Limburgish: Leudaal) is a municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg. It was formed on January 1, 2007 in a merger of the municipalities of Heythuysen, Haelen, Hunsel, and Roggel en Neer.

Leudal Leudaal
Municipality
Water mill Friedesse in Neer
Flag Coat of arms
Location in Limburg
Coordinates: 51°15′N 5°54′E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Limburg
Established	1 January 2007[1]
Government [2]
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Désirée Schmalschläger (GroenLinks)
Area [3]
• Total	164.91 km^2 (63.67 sq mi)
• Land	162.73 km^2 (62.83 sq mi)
• Water	2.18 km^2 (0.84 sq mi)
Elevation [4]	28 m (92 ft)
Population  (January 2019)[5]
• Total	35,681
• Density	219/km^2 (570/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode	Parts of 6000 range
Area code	0475, 0495
Website	www.leudal.nl

Population centres

The municipality contains the following population centres:

• Baexem
• Buggenum
• Ell
• Grathem
• Haelen
• Haler
• Heibloem
• Heythuysen
• Horn
• Hunsel
• Ittervoort
• Kelpen-Oler
• Neer
• Neeritter
• Nunhem
• Roggel

Topography

Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Leudal, June 2015

Notable people

Bart Brentjens, 1994

• Arnold II of Horne (1339 – 1389) Bishop of Utrecht 1371/1378 and Bishop of Liège 1378/1389
• Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn (ca.1524 – 1568) a victim of the Inquisition in the Spanish Netherlands
• Floris of Montmorency (ca.1528 - 1570) a noble and diplomat from the Spanish Netherlands
• Wilhelmus Demarteau (1917 in Horn – 2012) Bishop in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Banjarmasin, Indonesia
• Peter J. Peters (born 1957 in Hunsel) a professor of nanobiology, works on electron microscopy
• Carool Kersten (born 1964 in Haelen) a historian of Islam, academic and author
• Stevie Ann (born 1986 in Roggel) a Dutch singer-songwriter

Sport

• Antonius Bouwens (1876 in Hunsel – 1963) a Dutch sports shooter, bronze medallist at the 1900 Summer Olympics
• Peter van de Ven (born 1961 in Hunsel) a former professional footballer with 417 club caps
• Bart Brentjens (born 1968 in Haelen) a Dutch racing cyclist in mountain biking, gold medallist in the 1996 Summer Olympics and bronze medallist in the 2004 Summer Olympics
• Edwin Linssen (born 1980 in Neeritter) a former professional footballer with over 450 club caps
• Bryan Linssen (born 1990 in Neeritter) a Dutch professional footballer, with approaching 300 club caps

Gallery

• 
  Neer
• 
  Mariakapel, Bergstraat-Holstraat, Buggenum
• 
  Sint Annakapel, Mortel-Op de Bos, Roggel
• 
  Nunhem - Kerkstraat 11, former townhall

References

1. "Gemeentelijke indeling op 1 januari 2007" [Municipal divisions on 1 January 2007]. cbs.nl (in Dutch). CBS. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
2. "Samenstelling college van B&W" [Members of the board of mayor and aldermen] (in Dutch). Gemeente Leudal. Archived from the original on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
3. "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Dutch). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
4. "Postcodetool for 6093HE". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2013.
5. "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.

External links

• Media related to Leudal at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website