Editing Deurne, Netherlands

{{Infobox settlement
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<!-- Name and transliteration -->| name               = Deurne
| settlement_type    = [[List of municipalities of the Netherlands|Municipality]]
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| image_alt          = 
| image_caption      = ''Klein Kasteel'' castle in Deurne
| image_flag         = Deurne vlag.svg
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| flag_alt           = 
| image_shield       = Deurne wapen.svg
| shield_size        = 100x80px
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| map_alt            = Highlighted position of Deurne in a municipal map of North Brabant
| map_caption        = Location in North Brabant
| coordinates        = {{coord|51|28|N|5|48|E|region:NL|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates_footnotes = 
| subdivision_type   = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name   = [[Netherlands]]
| subdivision_type1  = [[Provinces of the Netherlands|Province]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[North Brabant]]
| government_footnotes = <ref name="mayor_now">{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.deurne.nl/bestuur-en-organisatie/samenstelling-van-het-college_41283/
 |title       = Samenstelling van het college
 |trans-title = Members of the board
 |language    = nl
 |publisher   = Gemeente Deurne
 |access-date  = 9 May 2014
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20140208130209/http://www.deurne.nl/bestuur-en-organisatie/samenstelling-van-het-college_41283/
 |archive-date = 8 February 2014
}}</ref>
| governing_body     = [[Municipal council (Netherlands)|Municipal council]]
| leader_party       = [[PvdA]]
| leader_title       = [[Burgemeester|Mayor]]
| leader_name        = [[Greet Buter]]
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| area_land_km2      = {{Dutch municipality land area|Deurne}}
| area_water_km2     = {{Dutch municipality water area|Deurne}}
| elevation_footnotes = <ref name="AHN">{{cite web 
 |url = http://www.ahn.nl/postcodetool
 |title = Postcodetool for 5751BE
 |language = nl
 |author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> 
 |work = Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland
 |publisher = Het Waterschapshuis
 |access-date = 9 May 2014}}</ref>
| elevation_m        = 26
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| timezone           = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset         = +1
| timezone_DST       = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset_DST     = +2
| postal_code_type   = [[Postal codes in the Netherlands|Postcode]]
| postal_code        = 5750–5759
| area_code_type     = [[Telephone numbers in the Netherlands|Area code]]
| area_code          = 0493
| website            = {{URL|1=http://www.deurne.nl}}
| footnotes          = [[File:Gem-Deurne-OpenTopo.jpg|275px]]
''Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Deurne, June 2015''
}}

'''Deurne''' ({{IPA|nl|ˈdøːrnə|-|185 Deurne.ogg}}) is a rural [[Municipalities of the Netherlands|municipality]] and eponymous village in the province of [[North Brabant]] in the [[Netherlands]]. Including the villages of Liessel, [[Vlierden]], Neerkant, and Helenaveen, Deurne had a population of {{formatnum:{{Dutch municipality population|Deurne}}}} in {{YEAR|{{Dutch municipality population|popbaseyear}}}} and covers an area of {{convert|{{Dutch municipality total area|Deurne}}|km2|abbr=on}}.

== History ==
First recorded as ''Durninum'' (near / by thorns) in a deed of gift from the Frankish Lord [[Herelaef]] to bishop [[Willibrord]] in 721,<ref>{{cite web|title=deurnewiki.nl|url=http://www.deurnewiki.nl/wiki/index.php?title=Schenkingsoorkonde_uit_721|work=Liber Aureus Epternacencis copy of the deed of gift from Herelaef to Willibrord}}</ref> Deurne remained a collection of subsistence farming hamlets west of the [[Peel, Netherlands|Peel]] [[peat]] [[Moorland|moor]] until the 19th century, when a newly built [[railroad]] (Eindhoven - Venlo in 1866) and a [[canal]] ([[Zuid-Willemsvaart canal]] in 1826) enabled the commercial exploitation of the moor.<ref>{{cite web|title=Griendtsveen Peat Moss Litter Company|url=http://www.griendtsveen.nl/lang/en/griendtsveen/historie/|work=history of the company|publisher=the Griendtsveen company|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323013223/http://griendtsveen.nl/lang/en/griendtsveen/historie/|archive-date=2016-03-23}}</ref> Although the peat industry did not yield much of a [[Profit (economics)|profit]] in the era of [[coal]]-powered industries, the cultivation of the newly cleared land, in the 1930s also by [[Unfree labour|forced labour]], gave a boost to [[agriculture]], [[farming]], and settlement alike.<ref>[[:nl:Peel (Nederland)]]</ref> Today only tiny pieces of this former peat moor remain, some reflooded as mini [[wetland]]s, scattered along the [[fault line]] that once brought about its very existence.

Coincidentally, the very same Anglo Dutch [[Griendtsveen Peat Moss Litter Company Ltd.]] that extracted a significant part of the peat in the [[Peel, Netherlands|Peel]] moved to [[Thorne, South Yorkshire|Thorne]] ([[Moorends]]) [[South Yorkshire]], U.K.,<ref>{{cite web|title=UK national archives|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/s/res?_q=1893%3A+BT+31%2F5595%2F38959|publisher=national archives}}|1893: BT 31/5595/38959</ref> where several of its Dutch employees settled as immigrant workers.

== Transportation ==
*[[Deurne railway station]]

== Culture ==
In 2009 the new "Cultural Centre" (''cultureel centrum'') opened its doors. It is the Martien van Doorne Cultuur Centrum and serves as a theatre, concert hall, and movie theatre.

The local dialect is [[Meierij|Peelland]]s (an [[East Brabantian]] dialect, which is very similar to colloquial [[Dutch language|Dutch]]).<ref>Jos & Cor Swanenberg: Taal in stad en land: Oost-Brabants, {{ISBN|9012090105}}</ref>

==International relations==

===Twin towns – Sister cities===
Deurne is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:
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* {{flagicon|Cameroon}} [[Batouri]] in [[Cameroon]]
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* {{flagicon|POL}} [[Leszno]] in [[Poland]]
|}

== Notable people ==
* [[Lucas Gassel]] (c.1488 in Deurne – 1568 or 1569) Renaissance painter known for his landscapes
* [[Aaltje Noordewier–Reddingius]] (1868 in Deurne – 1949) Dutch classical soprano and voice teacher
* [[Jules de Corte]] (1924 in Deurne – 1996) blind singer-songwriter from the Netherlands
* [[Laurens van den Acker]] (born 1965 in Deurne) automobile designer
* [[Erik van Lieshout]] (born 1968 in Deurne) Dutch contemporary artist
* [[Yara Kastelijn]] (born 1997 in Deurne) Dutch racing cyclist

== Gallery ==
<gallery mode="packed">
File:Dr. Anna Terruweplein Deurne P1050447.jpg|Dr. Anna Terruweplein, Deurne
File:Deurne, de Sint Willibrorduskerk RM12372 foto6 2014-05-18 11.42.jpg|Deurne, church: de Sint Willibrorduskerk
File:140704 HANENBERGWEG ZEILBERG DEURNE 't Benkske.JPG|Wooden meeting place, known as Little Bench
File:Geldersestraat 10-12 voorm tabakschuur..JPG|Geldersestraat 10-12
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
*{{Commons category-inline|Deurne, Netherlands}}
*[http://www.deurne.nl Official website]

{{Geographic location
 | Centre    = Deurne
 | North     = [[Gemert-Bakel]]
 | Northeast = [[Venray]] ([[Limburg (Netherlands)|LI]])
 | East      = [[Horst aan de Maas]] ([[Limburg (Netherlands)|LI]])
 | South     = [[Peel en Maas]] ([[Limburg (Netherlands)|LI]])
 | West      = [[Asten, Netherlands|Asten]]
 | Northwest = [[Helmond]]
}}
{{North Brabant Province}}

{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Deurne, Netherlands| ]]
[[Category:Municipalities of North Brabant]]
[[Category:Populated places in North Brabant]]