Cuijk

Cuijk
Cuijk
	Municipality
	Monumental church in Cuijk
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location in North Brabant
	Coordinates: 51°44′N 5°53′E
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	51.29 km2 (19.80 sq mi)
• Water	5.78 km2 (2.23 sq mi)
Elevation [3]	12 m (39 ft)
Population (January 2019)[4]
• Total	24,931
• Density	486/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
Gezicht op Cuijk vanaf de veerpont
Cuijk, windmill: windmolen Jan van Cuijk
Former town hall, between Katwijk and Linden
Vianen, church

References

"College" [Board] (in Dutch). Gemeente Cuijk. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
"Kerncijfers wijken en buurten" [Key figures for neighbourhoods]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2014.
"Postcodetool for 5431BV". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
"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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[mayor_now-1] "College" [Board] (in Dutch). Gemeente Cuijk. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.

[2] "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten" [Key figures for neighbourhoods]. CBS Statline (in Dutch). CBS. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 12 March 2014.

[AHN-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.