Castelré | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Native Name Lang: | nl |
Image Map1: | Map NL - Baarle-Nassau - Castelré.png |
Map Caption1: | Location within Baarle-Nassau municipality of Castelré village (red dot) and statistical district (light green area) |
Pushpin Map: | Netherlands North Brabant#Netherlands |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the province of North Brabant in the Netherlands |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | North Brabant |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Baarle-Nassau |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 16 |
Area Total Km2: | 6.67 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 120 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 5114 |
Area Code Type: | Dialing code |
Area Code: | 013 |
Website: | Gemeentesite |
Castelré (pronounced as /nl/) is a village in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is a part of the municipality of Baarle-Nassau, and lies some 20 km south of Breda.
In 2000 a millennium chapel was built at the "Kempische-driehoek" 't Groesje.
Castelré belongs to the parish of Sint-Clemenskerk, Minderhout. As Minderhout is a Belgian village in the community of Hoogstraten only a few hundred metres to the west, people are more oriented to Minderhout than to their official municipality of Baarle-Nassau, over 10 km to the east.
The village was first mentioned in 1231 as "de molendino de Casterle". The etymology is unclear.[3]
Castelré was home to 305 people in 1840. In 1970, a monument was unveiled for the first air balloon to land in the Netherlands. The balloon was launched in 1870 in Paris, and supposed to land in France.[4] In 1978, the village was entered in the postal database as Castelre without an accent. As of 2022, it has not been corrected.[5]