Neerpelt

Neerpelt is a former municipality placed in the Belgian province of Limburg. In December 2012, it had a complete populace of sixteen,742, of which three.090 had been foreigners, in particular from neighbouring The Netherlands. The overall place is forty two.Seventy eight km² which gives a population density of 384 inhabitants per km². Effective 1 January 2019, Neerpelt and Overpelt had been merged into the new municipality of Pelt. Provincial Domain Dommelhof is the cultural center of Neerpelt. Traces of prehistoric civilization have been found in Neerpelt. Together with the higher located Overpelt , Neerpelt changed into densely populated from the early Middle Ages. It was then named Paleth e pool, swampy location. Only in 1218 did the prefix "down" appear. Some sources indicate that the Irish missionary Willibrordus 658-739 could have constructed a chapel inside the hamlet of Herent .

However, none of this has been preserved and there's no affirmation by means of archaeological unearths In the past due Middle Ages and then fashioned Neerpelt, along side Overpelt, Kaulille and Kleine-Brogel the Craft Pelt , an administrative area of the county Loon till 1366, then inside the independent Principality of Liege as much as the French Revolution . From 1815, Neerpelt become a municipality inside the province of Limburg inside the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, after the division of Limburg 1839 into Belgian Limburg. The canton capital came from neighboring Achel in 1910 .