Population 9,000 (2007) Local time Monday 4:21 AM Number of airports 1 | Area 26.09 km² | |
Weather 5°C, Wind S at 11 km/h, 95% Humidity | ||
Budel is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Cranendonck, 25 km outside Eindhoven. Kempen Airport is located near Budel.
Map of Budel, Netherlands
Budel used to be a separate municipality. It merged with Maarheeze in 1997, and changed its name a year later to Cranendonck. It is home to the Budelse Brouwerij, one of the country's largest microbreweries.
South of the town the large zinc smelter of Nyrstar (named Umicore before 2007) is located.
Though located in North Brabant near Eindhoven, the spoken dialect is Budels (linguistically a Limburgish dialect), rather than Kempenlands (linguistically an East Brabantian dialect).
References
Budel Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA