Oosterhout

Oosterhout is a municipality and a city inside the southern Netherlands. The municipality had a population of fifty 50.5 in 2017. Oosterhout is mentioned for the number one time in 1277, notwithstanding the truth that archaeological excavations confirmed the life of human settlements within the area in prehistoric times. The Knights Templar had a temple right here devoted to St. John the Baptist. It become home to a castle which later acquired manipulate over the encircling place, up to Breda and Bergen op Zoom. The fort became destroyed with the useful resource of Spanish troops at some point of the Eighty Years War, in 1573; only a tower of it survives in recent times.

The city became the seat of a flourishing ceramics employer, which lasted till the nineteenth century. In 1625 the city modified into besieged by using Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, and suffered heavy damage. Despite the upward push of Protestantism, it become home to severa Catholic monasteries, consisting of that of the Premonstratensians, which remains lively. Oosterhout received metropolis rights in 1809, with the aid of will of Louis Bonaparte.