- Liempde
Liempde is a village in the
Netherlands in the municipalityBoxtel . Annually the Flevo Christian music festival is held here. In 2005 the eventWhat the Hack took place in Liempde.Liempde is situated in the center of the Dutch province
North Brabant in the valley of theDommel . It lays in the center of the triangle formed by's-Hertogenbosch ,Tilburg andEindhoven . Until the end of the nineteenth century it was a dark and diffuse area. The economy was mostly based on the production ofwooden shoes . Today a few of these manufacturers still exist. In the beginning of the twentieth centuryPhilips changedEindhoven in the 'city of lights'. In Liempde this turned the darkness into a gloom. Each year at second easter day the people celebrate the 'coming of the gloom' by a manifestation called 'Boeremèrt '. That day the entire village returns to the 'era of the coming of the light'.Storytellers, musicians, old policemen seem to return from their graves. Stories are told about their ancestors, like the famousNeighbour Piet and the unforgettableJan Pieters and last but not least about thesecret cave near the Dommel .Liempde was a separate municipality until 1996, when it became part of
Boxtel . [Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [http://www.knaw.nl/cfdata/publicaties/detail.cfm?boeken__ordernr=20061061] ]References
External links
* [http://www.kuijsten.de/atlas/nb/liempde.html Map of the former municipality in 1868]
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