Nederweert (About this sound pronunciation ) (Limburgish: Ni-jwieërt) is a municipality and a town in southeastern Netherlands with 16,747 as of 2014 and has an area of 101.78 km2 (39.30 sq mi) of which 1.55 km2 (0.60 sq mi) is water.Nederweert lies at the intersection of three channels: the Zuid-Willemsvaart, the Noordervaart and the channel Wessem-Nederweert. In the 19th century these channels provided transport routes to export peat that was harvested from the Peel.