Moergestel
village in Oisterwijk, the Netherlands
Moergestel (Dutch: [muːrˈɣɛstəl]) is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located in the municipality of Oisterwijk, about 7 km East of Tilburg.
History
The village was first mentioned in 1147 as Gestele, and means "guest house". Moer (moorland / peat excavation settlement) was later added to distinguish from Luyksgestel. Moergestel started on a sandy ridge near the brook Reusel. It is started to develop when the roads from Tilburg to Eindhoven and Oisterwijk to Hilvarenbeek intersected in the village.
The tower of the St John, the Baptish church dates from the 16th century. Later the church was added to the tower. Between 1930 and 1931, the church was replaced. The nameless grist mill of Moergestel was built in 1852.
“Moergestel” enters the record as village in Oisterwijk, the Netherlands. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Moergestel, village and Oisterwijk can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Moergestel” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Moergestel, village and Oisterwijk provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1921402. VIAF identifies the subject as 139605805. The Library of Congress control number is n84112806. Authority coordinates are 51.550, 5.183. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1147, 1930, 1931 and 1852.
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This entry incorporates text from “Moergestel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.