Bergeijk
Bergeijk is a municipality and town in southern Netherlands, in the province of North Brabant. It consists of an area of and had a population of in. It is one of 21 municipalities, including Eindhoven, that make up the Eindhoven Region Cooperative.
The spoken language is Kempenlands.
Bergeijk has traditionally been an agricultural area, but tourism and recreation are steadily gaining importance. Among the facilities in the municipality of Bergeijk is a bungalow park in the village Westerhoven.
Bergeijk is known in the Netherlands as a Rietveld village, for its architecture by De Stijl architect Gerrit Rietveld, and for a program on national radio: Radio Bergeijk, a parody on local radio.
Population centres
Topography
''Topographic map of the municipality of Bergeijk, June 2015.''Notable people
- Henk van Gerven a Dutch politician and general practitioner
- Wilbert Das a Dutch fashion designer, grew up in Riethoven
Sport
- Harm van Veldhoven a Dutch-Belgian football manager
- Kees Koolen a Dutch rally raid racer and businessman
- Tommie van der Leegte a retired Dutch footballer with 334 club caps
- Rudi van Houts a Dutch road cyclist and mountain biker, competed in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics
- Harrie Lavreysen five times Olympic champion in track cycling at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris