Kessel is a former municipality and a city in the southeastern province of Limburg, in the Netherlands. It is a small historic municipality with 4,2…Kessel is a former municipality and a city in the southeastern province of Limburg, in the Netherlands. It is a small historic municipality with 4,246 residents. It merged with neighbouring municipalities in the new municipality of Peel en Maas. To the west are the Heldense Bossen and to the east is the Meuse river.