Bonheiden

Bonheiden is a place and municipality inside the Belgian province of Antwerp . The municipality belongs to the Duffel electoral district and the judicial district of Mechelen and has approximately 15,000 inhabitants. Bonheiden is positioned within the Mechelen Horticulture Region and borders at the Brabant Kempen. The spot name of Bonheidenaren is Big guys . Various traces suggest that Bonheiden and Rijmenam had been already inhabited in prehistoric times . Finds additionally imply the presence of Romans , Nervians and Franks . In 1578 the States in the hamlet of Mispeldonk, among Bonheiden and Rijmenam , defeated the Spaniards inside the Battle of Rijmenam .

In the beyond Bonheiden and Rijmenam consisted of all kinds of hamlets which includes Ottershoek, Mispeldonk, Peulis , Diedonken, Harent and Hondshoek. The modern municipality of Bonheiden came into lifestyles on January 1, 1977 as a result of the merger of the core municipality of Bonheiden with the then discontinued municipality of Rijmenam . The largest a part of the Peulis van Rijmenam residential place was also transferred to the municipality of Putte .