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Heel

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	Heel Location in the Netherlands Heel Location in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands
	Coordinates: 51°10′N 5°53′E / 51.167°N 5.883°E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Limburg
Municipality	Maasgouw
Area
• Total	10.47 km2 (4.04 sq mi)
Elevation	24 m (79 ft)
Population (2021)
• Total	4,225
• Density	400/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	6097
Dialing code	0475

Heel (Dutch: [ɦeːl] ^ⓘ; Limburgish: Hael) is a village and former municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. The village is located near the E25 motorway and the river Meuse.

History

In pre-Roman times, this was the location of the Gallic town of Catualium.^[3]

In 1821, the municipality of Pol en Panheel, covering the village of Panheel and the hamlet Pol, merged with Heel to form a municipality called Heel en Panheel.^[4] In 1991, it was renamed simply Heel. On January 1, 2007, the municipality of Heel was merged into the municipality of Maasgouw.

Surrounding area

Major cities in the surrounding areas are;

Roermond (Northeast, 10 kilometers)
Maastricht (South, 45 kilometers)
Eindhoven (Northwest, 50 kilometers)

Notable people

Lies Visschedijk (born 1974), actress
Jesse Huta Galung (born 1985), tennis player

Gallery

House in Heel
Building in Heel
Former town hall
Canal view

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021". Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 25 April 2022. two entries
^ "Postcodetool for 6097AA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
^ Willems, W.J.H. (1994). "Die villa rustica von Voerendaal (NL) und die ländliche Besiedlung". S.K. Palägy (Ed.),Forschungen und Ergebnisse. Internationale Tagung über römische Villen. 3 (May): 116–23. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
^ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2011.