title: Heeze-Leende
text: # Heeze-Leende
  
  Heeze-Leende (Dutch pronunciation: (listen)) is a municipality in the southern Netherlands, near Eindhoven. It is known for Heeze Castle (Kasteel Heeze).
  
  The spoken language is "Heeze-en-Leendes", a distinct dialect within the East Brabantian dialect group and is very similar to colloquial Dutch.
  
  ## Population centres
  
  * Heeze
  * Leende
  * Sterksel
  
  ### Topography
  
  Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Heeze-Leende, June 2015
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Jan Moninckx (ca.1656 in Leende - 1714) a Dutch botanical artist and painter
  * Laurentius Nicolaas Deckers (1883 in Heeze – 1978) a Dutch politician, diplomat and agronomist.
  * Thomas Horsten (born 1994 in Heeze) a Dutch professional footballer
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Catharinakerk, Beukenlaan, Sterksel
  * Pastoor Thijsenlaan, Sterksel
  * Jan Deckersstraat, Heeze
  * Molen, Sint Victor Geldrop
  