Obbicht en Papenhoven (, li, Opbeech en Papenhaove ) is a former municipality in the
Dutch
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People E ...
province of
Limburg
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. It consisted of the villages
Obbicht and
Papenhoven, located on the river
Meuse
The Meuse ( , , , ; wa, Moûze ) or Maas ( , ; li, Maos or ) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. It has a t ...
about 8 km northwest of
Sittard.
Obbicht en Papenhoven merged with the municipality of
Born in 1982.
A small part merged with
Stein
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.
References
Former municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands)
Sittard-Geleen
Stein, Limburg
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