Reusel

Reusel
Village
Reusel church
Flag Coat of arms
Reusel Location in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands Show map of North Brabant Reusel Reusel (Netherlands) Show map of Netherlands
Coordinates: 51°21′42″N 5°9′47″E
Country	Netherlands
Province	North Brabant
Municipality	Reusel-De Mierden
Area [1]
• Total	26.52 km^2 (10.24 sq mi)
Elevation [2]	31 m (102 ft)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	8,005
• Density	300/km^2 (780/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	5541[1]
Dialing code	0497

Reusel is a village and former municipality in the south of the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is one of the villages of the municipality Reusel-De Mierden.

The village is known on their village dialect (Reusels), which is still spoken, and for the nature area Het Goor, which is also known as the Reuselse Moeren. Also the town is known for the large number of bars and shops. And the annual town fair (Reusel Kermis) is famous in the area.

Reusel existed until 1997, when it merged with Hooge en Lage Mierde to form the new municipality of Reusel-De Mierden.^[3]

Spurious location

Thousands of Dutch locations in family trees are spuriously identified as "Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands" despite having no connection to this small village. This is due to an error in popular genealogy software Family Tree Maker, which previously would match "Holland" to a narrow, 1.3 km road named "Het Holland" (The Woodland) located in Reusel, and automatically suggest this substitution. Long after the software error was corrected, these spurious locations have persisted in trees and have been uncritically copied.^[4][5]

Gallery

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  Reusel in 1867
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  Uitkijktoren "De Nieuwe Brandtoren"

References

1. "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021". Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 18 April 2022. three entries
2. "Postcodetool for 5541AA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
3. Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2011.
4. Hoitink, Yvette (22 Nov 2013). "Was your ancestor born in Reusel-De Mierden, Noord-Brabant? Guess again!". Dutch Genealogy. Dutch Genealogy. Retrieved 5 Dec 2018.
5. "Google Search for "Holland, Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands"". Google. Retrieved 5 Dec 2018.

External links

• Media related to Reusel at Wikimedia Commons