Cuijk

Municipality in North Brabant, Netherlands

Municipality in North Brabant, Netherlands

Cuijk
Municipality
Monumental church in Cuijk
Flag Coat of arms
Location in North Brabant
Coordinates: 51°44′N 5°53′E / 51.733°N 5.883°E / 51.733; 5.883Coordinates: 51°44′N 5°53′E / 51.733°N 5.883°E / 51.733; 5.883
Country	Netherlands
Province	North Brabant
Government[1]
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Wim Hillenaar (CDA)
Area[2]
• Total	57.07 km2 (22.03 sq mi)
• Land	51.16 km2 (19.75 sq mi)
• Water	5.91 km2 (2.28 sq mi)
Elevation[3]	12 m (39 ft)
Population (January 2019)[4]
• Total	24,931
• Density	487/km2 (1,260/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Cuijkenaar
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode	5430–5437, 5439
Area code	0485
Website	www.cuijk.nl

Cuijk (Dutch pronunciation: [kœyk] (listen)) is a municipality and a town in upper southeastern Netherlands of pre-historic origin. Its existence is recorded on the Roman roadmap Tabula Peutingeriana under the name of Ceuclum. It is a big commuter town with very good public transport services to nearby Nijmegen. The nearest hospital is at Boxmeer and the nearest international airport is situated in the German town of Weeze. Cuijk has a railway station on the Nijmegen to Venlo railway.

Population centres

Population centers include:

• Beers
• Haps
• Katwijk
• Linden
• Sint Agatha
• Vianen

Topography

Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Cuijk, June 2015

Station, Cuijk

Transportation

• Cuijk railway station

Twin towns

Cuijk is twinned with

Maldon, Essex, UK.

Notable people

• Jan de Quay (1901 – 1985 in Beers) a Dutch politician and psychologist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1959/1963
• Pieter Bogaers (1924 in Cuijk – 2008) a Dutch politician
• Jordie van der Laan (born 1993 in Cuijk) a Dutch football player

Gallery

• Cuijk, church: Sint-Martinuskerk

• Sint-Martinuskerk viewed from the Maas river

• Cuijk, windmill: windmolen Jan van Cuijk

• Former town hall, between Katwijk and Linden

• Vianen, church

• Kraaijenbergse Plassen, drawing bridge

References

1. "College" [Board] (in Dutch). Gemeente Cuijk. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
2. "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2020" [Key figures for neighbourhoods 2020]. StatLine (in Dutch). CBS. 24 July 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
3. "Postcodetool for 5431BV". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
4. "Bevolkingsontwikkeling; regio per maand" [Population growth; regions per month]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 1 January 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2019.

External links

• Media related to Cuijk at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website

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