Maasbree

Maasbree is an area and previous municipality in Dutch Limburg. The vicinity has around 5000 inhabitants center and 1500 within the nation-state. Maasbree is a part of the municipality of Peel en Maas. In the Middle Ages, Maasbree belonged to the county of Kessel, which in flip changed into a part of the Overkwartier of Gelre or Spaans Opper-Gelre . Like everywhere else in that point, agriculture and animal husbandry had been additionally the main approach of subsistence in Maasbree. During the Spanish War of Succession round 1702, the location become occupied by Prussian troops, and as a result remained a part of Prussian Upper Gelre for about a century.

The management of the village became - till the advent of the French - formed with the aid of the Schepenbank. At the head of this become a schout , who become appointed via the Lord. As far as Bree is worried, this proper, just like the other superb rights, belonged successively to the matter later duke of Gelre, the duke of Burgundy and the king of Spain. In 1673 the Lord of Arcen , who by way of inheritance had come into the ownership of Huis Bree, bought those rights from the Spanish king.