Beers, North Brabant facts for kids

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Village
Catholic church
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Country	Netherlands
Province	North Brabant
Municipality	Land van Cuijk
Area
• Total	13.38 km2 (5.17 sq mi)
Elevation	11 m (36 ft)
Population  (2021)
• Total	1,725
• Density	128.92/km2 (333.91/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	5437
Dialing code	0485

Beers is a small village in the Netherlands. It is located in the province of North Brabant. You can find it about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) west of the town of Cuijk.

Since 2022, Beers has been part of a new, larger municipality called Land van Cuijk. Before that, it was part of the municipality of Cuijk. Beers has about 1,721 people living there. Most of them live in the village itself. Others live in the nearby countryside, including small areas called De Plaats and Dommelsvoort. Beers used to be its own separate municipality until 1994.

What Does the Name Beers Mean?

The name Beers might come from old Dutch words. These words are bere or baren. They can mean "mud" or "stuff." This suggests the area might have been muddy long ago.

A Look at Beers' History

Beers is first mentioned in a very old document. This document was written sometime between the years 1050 and 1200. In this old text, the village was called Berse.

A family known as Van Beerse lived there. They were like important helpers to the Lord of Cuijk. This meant that Beers was connected to the municipality of Cuijk even back then. The Van Beerse family had a small castle. It was called De Broekhof and had a moat around it. A moat is a deep, wide ditch, often filled with water, that surrounds a castle for protection.

Around 1814, a big change happened. This was when the French era ended and the Kingdom of the Netherlands began. Beers became its own separate municipality at this time.

Later, in 1942, two other places joined Beers. These were Great-Linden and Gassel. But in 1994, the municipality of Beers was no longer separate. Gassel joined a different municipality called Grave, North Brabant. Beers and Great-Linden (which is now called Linden, North Brabant) joined the municipality of Cuijk. Then, in 2022, Beers became part of the new Land van Cuijk municipality.

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  The former municipal hall of Beers.

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  Beers, church and statue of child dressed up as elderly woman

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  Bandstand

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