Qualla: Heers, Netherlands https://qualla.com/heers-netherlands en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:33 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/5/u/heers-netherlands-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Heers, Netherlands https://qualla.com/heers-netherlands Heers, Netherlands: Introduction https://qualla.com/heers-netherlands/ Photo credit A ansems, Public domain. On 15 May 1871, a Veldhoven schoolteacher named Petrus Panken was digging in the fields near a hamlet south of his village. He turned up fragments of small terracotta sculptures - and then, mostly intact, a 21.6-centimetre figure of Diana the Roman goddess of the hunt, a quiver on her back and a dog at her side. The sculpture is dated to about 175 AD. He sent it to the Noordbrabants Museum in 's-Hertogenbosch the following year, where it still sits. Heers itself, the hamlet outside whose fields the goddess was found, has fewer buildings today than it did in the 19th century. But the soil here has been giving up evidence of human habitation for almost four thousand years.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/5/u/heers-netherlands-wp/u15u-heers-netherlands-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Heers, Netherlands: The Forest on the Ridge https://qualla.com/heers-netherlands/ Photo credit A ansems, Public domain. The hamlet's name first appears in writing in 1297 as Herle, meaning "forest on higher ground." By the 14th century it was also spelled Heerze and Heerle - probably referring to the sandy ridge between the Run and Gender streams. It is exactly the sort of place humans would have ...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/5/u/heers-netherlands-wp/u15u-heers-netherlands-the-forest-on-the-ridge.mp3 0:06 2 full Heers, Netherlands: A Roman Watchtower in a Dutch Field https://qualla.com/heers-netherlands/ Photo credit A ansems, Public domain. What Rijken found in 1909 changed how archaeologists thought about this corner of Brabant. He recommended a formal investigation of the Roman remains, which was led by Jan Hendrik Holwerda of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden - the national archaeological museum of the Nethe...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/5/u/heers-netherlands-wp/u15u-heers-netherlands-a-roman-watchtower-in-a-dutch-field.mp3 0:06 3 full Heers, Netherlands: Franks and Farmers https://qualla.com/heers-netherlands/ Photo credit A ansems, Public domain. The next layer arrived in the sixth century. A row-grave field of the Frankish era - twenty-five graves and three burial sites - lay buried near the road Oeienbosdijk, northwest of the hamlet. It was used until the end of the seventh century, and was only discovered in 1970, when...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/5/u/heers-netherlands-wp/u15u-heers-netherlands-franks-and-farmers.mp3 0:06 4 full Heers, Netherlands: Consolidated, Bypassed, Still Here https://qualla.com/heers-netherlands/ Photo credit A ansems, Public domain. Heers consisted of nineteen houses by the end of the 19th century. Fertilizer cultivated away the moors at the start of the 20th. Then in 1960 the A67 motorway came through, cutting straight across plots north of the hamlet, and the regional authorities ran an agricultural consol...

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