Boom

Boom is a place and municipality inside the Belgian province of Antwerp . The municipality belongs to the Duffel electoral district and the judicial district of Mechelen and has about 15,000 population. Boom is placed within the Mechelen Horticulture Region and borders at the Brabant Kempen. The spot call of Bonheidenaren is Big guys . Various lines advise that Boom and Rijmenam were already inhabited in prehistoric times . Finds moreover suggest the presence of Romans , Nervians and Franks . In 1578 the States in the hamlet of Mispeldonk, amongst Boom and Rijmenam , defeated the Spaniards in the Battle of Rijmenam .

In the beyond Boom and Rijmenam consisted of all varieties of hamlets which includes Ottershoek, Mispeldonk, Peulis , Diedonken, Harent and Hondshoek. The present day municipality of Bonheiden got here into life on January 1, 1977 as a result of the merger of the center municipality of Boom with the then discontinued municipality of Rijmenam . The largest a part of the Peulis van Rijmenam residential location was also transferred to the municipality of Putte .