Gemert-Bakel is a municipality

Municipality

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 in the southern Netherlands

Netherlands

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Population centres

Bakel, De Mortel, De Rips, Elsendorp, Gemert

Gemert

Gemert is a town in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Gemert-Bakel. On January 1, 2009 there were 15.268 inhabitants in Gemert.Gemert was a separate municipality until 1997, when it merged with Bakel....

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Milheeze

Milheeze is a village in the Dutch province Noord-Brabant. Milheeze is part of the municipality Gemert-Bakel. In 2007 Milheeze counted 2,015 inhabitants.- External links :**...

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People from Gemert

Humanist Macropedius

Macropedius

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 is one of the few famous people to have been born in Gemert, and a school and park have been named after him.

Castle

In the centre of Gemert stands a castle of which the oldest parts date back to the Late Middle Ages

Late Middle Ages

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, although it has been rebuilt a couple of times. It was founded by German knights who lived in the castle for several hundred years, however these days it is occupied by monks and nuns. The predecessor of this castle was a motte-and-bailey

Motte-and-bailey

A motte-and-bailey is a form of castle, with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised earthwork called a motte, accompanied by an enclosed courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade...

located further to the west and was discovered in 1995. It is said that the townfounder Diederik van Gemert lived here.