Leudal

Leudal (Leudaal) is a municipality in the Dutch province of Limburg. It was formed on January 1, 2007 in a merger of the municipalities of Heythuysen, Haelen, Hunsel, and Roggel en Neer.

Population centres
The municipality contains the following population centres: • Baexem

• Buggenum

• Ell

• Grathem

• Haelen

• Haler

• Heibloem

• Heythuysen

• Horn

• Hunsel

• Ittervoort

• Kelpen-Oler

• Neer

• Neeritter

• Nunhem

• Roggel

Topography


Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Leudal, June 2015

Notable people

 * Arnold II of Horne (1339 – 1389) Bishop of Utrecht 1371/1378 and Bishop of Liège 1378/1389
 * Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn (ca.1524 – 1568) a victim of the Inquisition in the Spanish Netherlands
 * Floris of Montmorency (ca.1528 - 1570) a noble and diplomat from the Spanish Netherlands
 * Wilhelmus Demarteau (1917 in Horn – 2012) Bishop in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Banjarmasin, Indonesia
 * Peter J. Peters (born 1957 in Hunsel) a professor of nanobiology, works on electron microscopy
 * Carool Kersten (born 1964 in Haelen) a historian of Islam, academic and author
 * Stevie Ann (born 1986 in Roggel) a Dutch singer-songwriter

Sport

 * Antonius Bouwens (1876 in Hunsel – 1963) a Dutch sports shooter, bronze medallist at the 1900 Summer Olympics
 * Peter van de Ven (born 1961 in Hunsel) a former professional footballer with 417 club caps
 * Bart Brentjens (born 1968 in Haelen) a Dutch racing cyclist in mountain biking, gold medallist in the 1996 Summer Olympics and bronze medallist in the 2004 Summer Olympics
 * Edwin Linssen (born 1980 in Neeritter) a former professional footballer with over 450 club caps
 * Bryan Linssen (born 1990 in Neeritter) a Dutch professional footballer, with approaching 300 club caps