Bornerbroek is een church village in the municipality of Almelo in Twente, the Dutch province of Overijssel. The village has approximately 1800 inhabitants. Up to the municipal reform of January 1 2001, the village was part of the municipality of Borne.
History
In the late Middle Ages, Bornerbroek was the name of a group of farms. According to tradition, the village was originally meant tob e located more in the vicinity of Enter, but during transport, the axxis of the vehicle transporting the building materials for the new church (the first St. Stephanus church) broke, leading to the decision to built the church at that spot. The suffix -broek in the village name is a reference to a march in the vicinity of the village. Names like De Mors (A district of Bornerbroek) also point to this.
The current St. Stephanus church was built in 1856 and fundamentally reconstructed in 1919-1920 by A.J. Kropholler.