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Zundert ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a municipality and a town in Noord Brabant, the Netherlands...

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Zundert ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a municipality and a town in Noord Brabant, the Netherlands. Zundert lies about 10 metres above Dutch sea level (NAP), and is located 15 km south-west of the city of Breda, and 35 km north-east of Antwerp, Belgium. Zundert is surrounded by the municipalities Etten-Leur and Breda on the north, Hoogstraten (Belgium) on the east, Wuustwezel (Belgium) on the south, Kalmthout (Belgium) on the southwest, and Essen (Belgium) and Rucphen on the west. Zundert is one of the most agricultural municipalities of the Netherlands. 10% of all nursery production of the Netherlands occurs around Zundert. Production of strawberries and young field grown trees and hedging plants is very important in the area. After the municipal redivision in 1997, Zundert was expanded with the former municipality of Rijsbergen. The origin of the town of Zundert is like that of many others, very unclear. The name is first encountered in a certificate dating from 1157, in which the Bishop of Liege, confirms a donation from the place "Sunderda". This Sunderda actually relates to the current settlement of Klein-Zundert (literally translated as Small-Zundert), which was one of the

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