Deurne

Deurne is a rural municipality and eponymous village inside the province of North Brabant inside the Netherlands. Including the villages of Liessel, Vlierden, Neerkant, and Helenaveen, Deurne had a population of 32,116 in 2017 and cowl a place of 118.36 km2. First recorded as Durninum in a deed of present from the Frankish Lord Herelaef to bishop Willibrord in 721, Deurne remained a collection of subsistence farming hamlets west of the Peel peat moor until the 2nd half of the 19th century, while a newly built railroad and a canal enabled the commercial exploitation of the moor.

Although the peat industry did now not yield a great deal of a profit in the era of coal powered industries, the cultivation of the newly cleared land, in the 1930s additionally by using forced labour, gave a boost to agriculture, farming, and agreement alike. Today most effective tiny pieces of this former peat moor stay, some reflooded as mini wetlands, scattered along the fault line that once brought approximately its very lifestyles.