Gemert is a town

Town

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 in the Dutch

Netherlands

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 province of North Brabant

North Brabant

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. It is located in the municipality of Gemert-Bakel

Gemert-Bakel

- Population centres :Bakel, De Mortel, De Rips, Elsendorp, Gemert, Handel, Milheeze.-People from Gemert:Humanist Macropedius is one of the few famous people to have been born in Gemert, and a school and park have been named after him.-Castle:...

. On January 1, 2009 there were 15.268 inhabitants in Gemert.

Gemert was a separate municipality until 1997, when it merged with Bakel.

Population centres

The Population centres from Gemert are Handel, De Mortel and Elsendorp.
Gemert also have a little chapel village called Esdonk and a Protestant mining village called Vossenberg.

Notable people born in Gemert

• Georgius Macropedius
• Lawrence Torrentinus
  Lawrence Torrentinus
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• Jan van Amstel
  Jan van Amstel
  Jan van Amstel was a Dutch Northern Renaissance painter.In or before 1528, van Amstel moved to Antwerp, when he joined its Guild of Saint Luke. He married Adriane van Doornicke, who would after his death remarry and give birth in 1544 to the future painter Gillis van Coninxloo...
  
  
• Leon Vlemmings
  Leon Vlemmings
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Castle and Castle Park

The construction of the castle began in 1391. Till 1794 the castle was used by the German Order. In 1916 the castle was used as a mission monastic. The castle has a Castle Park in English style. In the park ther is also the liberation monument from World War II.

Museums

Het Boerenbondsmuseum is the only museum in Gemert. In this museum there are some objects and some buildings about the farmerpopulation near Gemert around 1900.

Religious buildings

Gemert has two churches:

• De Kerk van Sint-Jans Onthoofding.
• Sint-Gerardus Majellakerk.

Gemert has also one monastery:

• Klooster Nazareth.

External links

Map of the former municipality, around 1868.

• The official site of the municipality (Dutch)