Blerick

Blerick ( Limburg: Blierik ) is the left of the Meuse town in the district of the city of Venlo. Blerick is situated between the A67 and the A73. The district counts 27 330 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2007). This Blerick is measured by the population of the second largest district of Venlo. Furthermore Blerick is the area after the largest district of the municipality of Venlo. The district consists of the parts Blerick, Hout - Blerick and Boekend.

  • 4.1 Rail transport
  • 4.2 Road traffic

History

The name is derived from Blerick Blariacum, a Roman settlement. However, the actual Roman settlement was not in today's Blerick, but probably a little further south-west. Blerick had several throughout history many names, including Blariacum, Blerke, Blerijck, Blerik, Blerick, Venlo - Blerick, Venlo -West. After 1794, the French army occupying the place and thus there was a new administration. Municipalities with less than 5000 inhabitants were combined to form a community. So were Blerick, Baarlo, Bree and Mairie de Bree, later called Maasbree, a unified community. In Blerick, the largest village of this community, there have been efforts to become self - but this did not succeed. Towards the end of the 19th century there was shortage of housing in neighboring Venlo, so you needed more space there. Over time, the city of Venlo therefore tried increasingly to detach Blerick of the community Maasbree and add the Municipality of Venlo. In 1909, these efforts were part of Venlo decisively rejected in Blerick. It was only in 1940 succeeded the city of Venlo, einzugemeinden Blerick. On the morning of May 10, 1940 troops invaded the Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg; the western campaign began. Blerick was released at the beginning of December 1944. Previously went 30,000 grenades down on Blerick. Also the Martinus church was destroyed. Venlo and neighborhoods on the east bank were released on 1 March 1945.

Blerick in the 21st century

Today Blerick is a modern district of Venlo and has no more rural character. Farms have given way to, inter alia, modern city apartments. Economically Blerick today is an important location for many industries. So Blerick is a major hub in the transportation world and is part of the extended Brabantstad: Breda - Tilburg - 's- Hertogenbosch - Eindhoven - Helmond to Venlo Blerick. The municipality consists to a large part of industrial areas, representing about a quarter of the area. In the trade ports therefore also many transport companies have settled.

The districts and industrial areas

Districts

The municipality Blerick consists not only of Blerick in itself, but is also to be distinguished in two more neighborhoods Boekend and Hout - Blerick. Blerick itself consists of three different official districts:

  • Tuindorp Centrum
  • Hazekamp
  • Sint- Anna Kamp
  • Vastelavondkamp
  • Smeliënkamp
  • Zonneveld
  • Ubroek

Industrial areas

Blerick is a quarter of industrial areas. These important, economic areas in Blerick include:

  • Venlo Trade Port Tradeport Noord
  • Tradeport Oost
  • Trade Port West

Traffic

Rail transport

Blerick located on the Staatslijn E ( Rail route Breda - Maastricht ) and the Maaslijn ( rail route Venlo - Nijmegen). Furthermore, since 1868 has Blerick its own train station. In passenger transport, there is an intercity train the Nederlandse Spoorwegen Eindhoven, Rotterdam and The Hague. Furthermore, the train station is also Blerick breakpoint of the private railway company of Veolia Transport in the direction of Roermond, and Nijmegen.

Road

Blerick is an important industrial town on two highways:

  • A67: (Ruhrgebiet ) - Venlo - Eindhoven - Antwerp
  • A73: Nijmegen - Venlo - Roermond - Maasbracht - (Maastricht / Liège )

Structures

  • Church of St. Anthony
  • Frederik Hendrik- Kazerne

Sports

  • SV Blerick (Football Club of the Netherlands Regional )

Personalities

  • Mathieu Cordang (1869-1942), cyclist
  • Coy Koopal (1932-2003), football player
  • Willem JH Willems ( b. 1950 ), archaeologist
  • Rick Hoogendorp ( b. 1975 ), football player
  • Jens Janse ( born 1986 ), football player
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