Gilze en Rijen

( Listen? / I ) Gilze en Rijen is a municipality in the Netherlands, North Brabant province. It has a population of 25 846 (as of 1 January 2013). The total surface area of the municipality is 65.69 km ².

Places

  • Rijen ( about 16,000 inhabitants ), where the local government has its seat
  • Gilze ( about 7500 inhabitants)
  • Molenschot ( about 1500 inhabitants)
  • Some small villages with a total of less than 500 inhabitants, including Hulten

Location and economic

Rijen is located eight kilometers east of Breda and twelve kilometers west of Tilburg, about 4 kilometers north of the A58 motorway and the railway between the two cities. In Rijen is also the Gilze- Rijen station. Also performs a highway from Breda to Tilburg by Rijen.

South of Rijen Gilze- Rijen is the Vliegbasis ( a military airfield ), now home base of helicopters. He is a major NATO base in the Netherlands and has a 2779 -meter-long airstrip. The " Koninklijke Luchtmacht " ( Dutch Air Force ), is the largest employer in the community.

Further south is the village of Gilze where tourism is important. West of the air base is Molenschot, a small farming village with a St. Anne consecrated chapel has.

There is widespread on the town agriculture and small businesses as well as several hotels and campsites.

History

The two largest villages emerged in the Middle Ages and soon got their own churches. The Eighty Years' War was hard on Gilze. It was in 1584 raided, looted and burned by soldiers who had their camp near Antwerp. Later it also soldiers of the army were quartered, sometimes rightly had devastating consequences for the villages. In the 17th century the pilgrimage chapel of Molenschot was built. In 1762, burned down a part of Gilze after an arsonist had set fire to a church.

When in 1863 the railway was opened, settled here in tanneries. The editor of the leather for the manufacture of footwear has long been an important perquisite of the local farmers. After 1950, this industry was a gradually. See also: Waalwijk.

Meanwhile, the military airfield Founded in 1910, the Dutch Air Force had become more important. The German occupation forces delivered it in 1941 a contribution. He came in 2005 still in the headlines, as a large, partly still unresolved weapon robbery took place.

Attractions

  • The forests of south and west of Gilze Rijen
  • Some lovely old farmhouses
  • The pilgrimage chapel of St. Anne in Molenschot. Every year on July 26, many people from all over Brabant pilgrimage here. Then pray to either a suitable husband, a suitable wife or that they have a child. On the spot it says: " Naar Molenschot gaat om een ieder Anneke Manneke, Every Manneke om een Anneke. " On German about: Each Annie goes to Molenschot to a male, and each male to a Ännchen. This festival is accompanied by a funfair.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Janus Theeuwes (1886-1975), Archer
  • Rebecca Noldus (* 1964), writer
  • Jeroen Blijlevens (born 1971 ), cyclist
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