Hilvarenbeek () is a municipality and a town in the south of the Netherlands, along the border with Belgium.
The biggest tourist attraction is called Beekse Bergen, consisting of a safari park, amusement park/playground, holiday bungalow park, and camping parks.
In the centre of the town the Sint-Petrus'-Banden is a Gothic church from the 14th and 15th centuries. The tower is a highlight of the Kempen Gothic.
Population centres The municipality of Hilvarenbeek also includes the following villages with their own churches:
In addition, the following parts were historically separate, but are nowadays more like neighbourhoods:
Topography
Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Hilvarenbeek, June 2015.
Notable people
Johannes Goropius Becanus (1519 in Gorp – 1573) physician, linguist, and humanist Martinus Becanus (1563 in Hilvarenbeek – 1624) a Jesuit priest, theologian and controversialist. Jacques Thomassen (born 1945 in Diessen) organizational theorist and academic Henny Vrienten (born 1948 in Hilvarenbeek – 2022) pop artist (Doe Maar) and composer of TV and film scores IMDb Database retrieved 08 February 2020 Annie Abrahams (born 1954 in Hilvarenbeek) performance artist in video installations and the internet Henk Baars (born 1960 in Diessen) cyclo-cross cyclist Ronald van Raak (born 1969 in Hilvarenbeek) politician, non-fiction writer and former academic
Gallery
References
External links
Official website