Son en Breugel

Son en Breugel is a municipality in the southern Netherlands just out of doors Eindhoven. The municipality covers an area of 26.51 km2 of which zero.Fifty six km2 is water. It had a populace of 16,763 in 2017. Son en Breugel used to be two one of a kind villages: 'Son' and 'Breugel', with the flow the Dommel separating the 2 villages. Son en Breugel additionally borders the subsequent large municipalities: Eindhoven, Meierijstad, Nuenen, Gerwen en Nederwetten, and Best. The spoken language is North Meierijs.

The villages of Son and Breugel were based among the 12th and 14th centuries. The villages evolved quickly; a few three hundred families occupied the 2 villages during the 15th century. According to Karel van Mander's 1604 Schilder-boeck, the painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder became born within the village of Breugel. Both Son as well as Breugel have been hit badly during the Eighty Years' War, and the quantity of families in the two villages shrank right down to approximately a hundred and forty. However, each villages controlled to get over this setback.