Princenhage

Princenhage () is a neighbourhood in the southwest of the city Breda in the Dutch province of North Brabant. The neighbourhood originated as a village so the neighbourhood council or village council, managed to get the neighbourhood, within the municipality council, appointed as a village. Therefor men speaks of "Princenhage Village in Breda". ==History== The Lordship Hage was mentioned for the first time in 1198. It was part of the . The haag (hedge) that gives the name, was a fenced area that served as a hunting ground for the lords of Breda. In 1261 the village on Mertersem (the later Princenhage) became an independent parish. In 1328, Mertersem received a bench of aldermen. Until 1796 the village was governed by the sheriff a seven aldermen. In the same year the parish of Beek split off.

Princenhage was an independent municipality since the 19th century. First as “Haage” with a large territory in the northwest and southwest of Breda. Gradually the territory lost pieces to the growing Breda. When the municipality’s were rearranged, during World War II in 1942, the Southern part and the village Princenhage were added to the municipality Breda. The Northern part with the village “Beek” (brook) became an independent municipality that was named Prinsenbeek later on. The city district of the Haagse Beemden partly owes its name to the lordship Hage.