Veghel

Veghel is a town and a former municipality within the southern Netherlands. On 1 January 2017 Veghel, together with Schijndel and Sint-Oedenrode, merged into a brand new municipality known as Meierijstad growing the most important municipality of the province North-Brabant in terms of land vicinity. The first settlements date again to Roman instances and have been established close to the River Aa. The oldest written file of Veghel dates from 1225. It is a file of the Abbey of Berne, written in Latin on a piece of parchment, and describes numerous homes owned by way of the abbey.

Among the ones is an property placed inside the settlement of "Vehchele". In 1310, John II of Brabant granted the inhabitants the right to apply common grounds. For some many years inside the 16th and seventeenth century the municipality was dominated with the aid of the Lords Van Erp, living at their citadel of Frisselsteijn in Veghel. In 1648 Veghel became a part of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands. As a former part of the Duchy of Brabant, Veghel is situated inside the Meierij of 's-Hertogenbosch. As a Catholic town, Veghel suffered financial and non secular oppression from the Protestant Dutch and turned into a part of the navy buffer zone of the Dutch Republic.