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Breda has two railway stations, Breda and Breda-Prinsenbeek, providing ’Sprinter’ and Inter-city connections throughout the Netherlands. Inter-city destinations from Breda to the North are Rotterdam, Den Haag and Amsterdam; east to Tilburg, Eindhoven, Den Bosch, Nijmegen and Zwolle; west to Roosendaal and Vlissingen.
Of these, 3 have historic city rights: Utrecht from 1122; Amsterdam from 1306; and Rotterdam from 1340. The second urban network in the Netherlands is known as Brabantstad, a partnership of the Brabant "Big 5": Eindhoven, Tilburg, Breda, 's-Hertogenbosch and Helmond. In addition, there are several medium-sized cities in the Netherlands without ...
Brabantse Stedenrij (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbraːbɑntsə ˌsteːdə(n)ˈrɛi]) is a term used in Dutch urban planning to designate the polycentric city region in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands. [3] [4] Its population is about 2 million. The main cities are 's-Hertogenbosch, Breda, Eindhoven, Helmond and Tilburg.
Historic Map Barony of Breda Baronie van Breda in Brabant/Staats-Brabant: Van Polanen family: 1403 – now - The center of all the Orange-Nassau lands in the Netherlands - 1350 sold by Duke of Brabant to John I, Lord of Polanen, the van Polanens were a cadet of the van Wassenaers
The following services start at Breda: 2× per hour high speed services (Intercity Direct) Amsterdam – Schiphol – Rotterdam – Breda2× per hour intercity services The Hague – Rotterdam – Breda – Tilburg – Eindhoven (Suspended on section Breda-Eindhoven until April 2017 due to a shortage of trains that are allowed on the HSL-Zuid, which is used between Rotterdam and Breda by this ...
Breda-Prinsenbeek is a railway station in the city of Breda. It is located on the Breda–Rotterdam railway, parallel to the A16 motorway. The station serves the village of Prinsenbeek and the Breda city district Haagse Beemden. Aswel as a small nearby business area which includes the headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
location of Zandberg in Breda. Zandberg is a neighbourhood and residential district to the southeast of the city centre of Breda, an extension raised in the 1920s and 1930s. It is only one of four parts of one of the seven greater quarters of that city, officially called 'Breda East' (Breda Oost).
As a second level administrative division municipalities are the third tier of public administration in the Netherlands after the central government and the provinces. [3] [4] The Netherlands is a decentralized unitary state, which means that the central government is supreme and delegates certain tasks to lower levels of government by law. [5]