The village was first mentioned in 1223 as in Marresia. The etymology is unclear. Maarheeze is a church village which developed in the Early Middle Ages. Maarheeze was home to 220 people in 1840. The Catholic St Gertrudis Church was built between 1909 and 1910 and has two towers. A new railway station was built in 2010. In 1955, a factory was opened by
Philips. Though located in
North Brabant near
Eindhoven, the spoken dialect is Budels (linguistically a
Limburgish dialect), rather than Kempenlands (linguistically an
East Brabantian dialect). == Notable people ==