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Pastorie | De Rips

This large rectory is of the oldest buildings in this reclamation village and housing for several...

De voormalige hoeve Handel

The vanished Handel farmstead is the oldest clearing, from which the village of Handel emerged.

Molen Het Zoutvat | Gemert

The defunct wooden standard mill Het Zoutvat was built in 1554 and demolished in 1917.

Boerderij 'de Rips'

This building is the oldest farm in de Rips. It was originally a sheep farm. One of the many larg...

Grenspaal Paal achter 't Zand | De Mortel

Boundary post between Bakel and Gemert. The name comes from the drifting dunes that used to lie h...

Theehuis 't Peelpaleis | De Rips

This little building has had all kinds of functions, from sheafkeet for the reclamation workers w...

School Katholieke Lagere Meisjesschool | Bakel

This girls' school belonged to a convent of the Sisters of Oirschot.

Witte Arbeiderswoningen 1922

The 12 double White Worker houses were the basis for the new village of De Rips in 1921-22.

Leengoed Espendonck | Gemert

Originally the medieval walled fief Espendonck.

Rijkswerkkamp de Rips (infopaneel versie)

State work camp De Rips served in various forms from 1940 to early 1948. A motley procession of r...

Paal op De Sijp | Gemert

School: Latijnse School, Gemert

This priest school, founded by the religious knightly order the Teutonic Order in 1587, now serve...

Voormalige Komschool | Gemert

One of the old village schools, from 1877 that incidentally lasted until 1978.

Rood in de sloot van de Hazeldonklaan, Gemert

Points at Gemert-South break up red water in roadside ditches of Hazeldonklaan

De Schouw en Ter Schaut, Bakel

The hamlet of De Schouw originated from the medieval farmstead Ter Schaut. It was a farmstead wit...

Parochiehuis | Bakel

This beautiful building, from 1938, was especially intended for meetings concerning the parish of...

Flourmill "De Bijenkorf"

Flourmill "De Bijenkorf" is located at Den Elding 2 in Gemert. Here you will find all the informa...

Oude Handwijzer

An old hand sign already stood here at an intersection of five dirt roads. Three roads are still...

WWII: Loopgraven in de Klotterpeel | De Rips

At this site lie the last remnants of the trenches that were zigzagged through the Peel just befo...

Boerenbondsmuseum Gemert

Voted the best (family) outing in Brabant several times, this living open-air museum in Gemert of...

WWII: Bazi-kamp (verdwenen) | De Rips

BAZI, a secret German radar station in the Peel.

Grenspaal Bunthorst Paal (Kuil)

The easternmost boundary marker in the Peel between Gemert and Bakel. Also the border with Oploo....

Helling in de Scheiweg | Gemert

If you look from west to east across the Scheiweg, you will see a slope in the road. The differen...

WWII: Lancaster en Burg. Wijtvliet monument | De Rips

This memorial provides information about the crash of a Lancaster plane that killed 7 people. It...