Country Netherlands Province North Brabant Municipality Gemert-Bakel | Population 5,593 (1 Jan 2007) Local time Tuesday 6:30 PM Number of airports 1 | |
Weather 3°C, Wind SW at 13 km/h, 90% Humidity | ||
Bakel is a village east of Helmond and Eindhoven in southern part of the Netherlands. The total population is approximately 5,000. Until the late 1990s it formed together with Milheeze and De Rips the municipality of Bakel and Milheeze but in 1997 it was forced to merge with the larger Gemert municipality.
Map of Bakel, Netherlands
Bakel does not have old buildings with the exception of the Willibrordus Church which is the oldest in the area. However, during the 1970s, this church was modernized. In the 1990s it regained a little bit the old style decoration.
The area surrounding Bakel on the one hand has lots of nature (forest) but the agricultural economy is also dominated by bio industry. It has the highest pig density in the Netherlands.
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Bakel, Netherlands Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA