Sambeek
Encyclopedia
Sambeek is a small town in the municipality
of Boxmeer
, (Brabant
, the Netherlands). It has 1700 inhabitants. Sambeek was an independent municipality until 1942, when the municipality was divided between Oploo, Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker
and Vierlingsbeek
.
The tower of Sambeek is, with its height of 50 meters, the centre of the village. The oldest part of the tower dates from 1486. This tower was a part of the local Roman Catholic church, which was blown up by the Germans in the Second World War. Their plan to blow up the tower failed, it was only slightly damaged.
The oldest lime tree
in the Netherlands stands in the southern part of Sambeek. Its age is estimated at 500 to 1000 years.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
of Boxmeer
Boxmeer
Boxmeer is a municipality and a town in the southern Netherlands. It incorporates the former municipality of Beugen en Rijkevoort and that of Vierlingsbeek.- Population centres :...
, (Brabant
North Brabant
North Brabant , sometimes called Brabant, is a province of the Netherlands, located in the south of the country, bordered by Belgium in the south, the Meuse River in the north, Limburg in the east and Zeeland in the west.- History :...
, the Netherlands). It has 1700 inhabitants. Sambeek was an independent municipality until 1942, when the municipality was divided between Oploo, Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker
Oploo, Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker
Oploo, Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker was a municipality in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It was created in 1821, in a merger of Oploo and Sint Anthonis en Ledeacker. The municipality existed until 1994, when it became part of a larger municipality St. Anthonis.-External links: Map of the former...
and Vierlingsbeek
Vierlingsbeek
Vierlingsbeek is a village in the municipality of Boxmeer in North Brabant province of the Netherlands. Until it was included in Boxmeer in 1998, it also was a municipality of its own.The UN/LOCODE is NLVIE....
.
The tower of Sambeek is, with its height of 50 meters, the centre of the village. The oldest part of the tower dates from 1486. This tower was a part of the local Roman Catholic church, which was blown up by the Germans in the Second World War. Their plan to blow up the tower failed, it was only slightly damaged.
Tilia
Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The greatest species diversity is found in Asia, and the genus also occurs in Europe and eastern North America, but not western North America...
in the Netherlands stands in the southern part of Sambeek. Its age is estimated at 500 to 1000 years.