Merkelbeek ( li, Merkelbek) is a village in the

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province of

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. It is located in the municipality of

Beekdaelen Beekdaelen (; li, Baekdale ) is a municipality in the province of Limburg, situated in the southern Netherlands. It was formed as a merger of Nuth, Onderbanken and Schinnen. Beekdaelen has 35,853 inhabitants. It does not have a capital. The town ...

, about 9 km northwest of

Heerlen Heerlen (; li, Heële ) is a city and a municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands. It is the third largest settlement proper in the province of Limburg. Measured as municipality, it is the fourth municipality in the province of Limburg. ...

. The village was first mentioned in 1283 as Merkelbeke. The etymology is unclear. Merkelbeek started in the Early Middle Ages along a brook and developed into a road village. The Catholic St Clemens Church is a three-aisled church with built-in tower with needle spire which was built between 1876 and 1878. In 1935, the choir was replaced by a transept and choir in

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style. Merkelbeek was home to 309 people in 1840. It was a separate municipality until 1982, when it became part of

Onderbanken Onderbanken (; li, Óngerbenk) was a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. In 2019, it merged with Nuth and Schinnen to form Beekdaelen. Population centres Bingelrade, Douvergenhout, Etzenrade, Jabeek, Merkelbeek, Op den Hering, Q ...

. In 2019, it was merged into

Gallery

File:Merkelbeek-Haagstraat 12-16 (4).JPG, Farm in Merkelbeek File:Merkelbeek waterput.jpg, Well File:Merkelbeek tunnel Haagdoornweg 03.jpg, Tunnel with murial

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* Populated places in Limburg (Netherlands) Former municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands) Beekdaelen {{LimburgNL-geo-stub