Merger municipality The municipality of Heers was formed by several mergers. In 1971: • Heers was merged with Batsheers, Opheers, Veulen, Gutschoven and Mettekoven. •
Mechelen-Bovelingen and Rukkelingen-Loon were merged to form Bovelingen municipality • Heks, Horpmaal, and Vechmaal were merged to form Heks municipality • Klein-Gelmen was merged with Gelinden, Engelmanshoven and Groot Gelmen to form Gelmen municipality In 1977 the current municipality of Heers was formed by merging: • Heers municipality • Bovelingen municipality • Heks municipality • Klein-Gelmen village (The rest of Gelmen was merged into the municipality of
Sint-Truiden). ==References==