Beers, North Brabant

Beers (Brabants: "Bèèrs") is a village in the Dutch municipality of Cuijk. It is located about 4 km west of Cuijk. Beers has a population of about 1721: 1305 in the village itself, and 416 in the surrounding countryside, including the hamlets De Plaats and Dommelsvoort.
Until 1994, Beers was a separate municipality.
Toponymy.
The name "Beers" might come from "bere" or "baren", which can mean mud or stuff in Dutch.
History.
Beers is first noted in a document that was written between 1050 and 1200. In it beers was named "Berse". The family "Van Beerse" was a vassal from the Lord of Cuijk, making Beers belong to the municipality of Cuijk. This vassal however, did own a small castle surrounded by a moat, named "De Broekhof".
Around 1814, at the end of the French age and at the beginning of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Beers became a separate municipality. In 1942, Great-Linden and Gassel joined Beers. In 1994 the municipality of Beers was repealed. Gassel joined the municipality of Grave, North Brabant, while Beers and Great-Linden (today Linden, North Brabant) joined Cuijk.
This remained to the present day.