Spaubeek is a village in the

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province of

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. It is located in the municipality of

Beek Beek (; li, Baek ) is a town and municipality in the southeastern Netherlands, in the province of Limburg. As of 2012, Beek has a population of about 16,400, of which about 8,800 live in the town of Beek. The municipality of Beek makes part o ...

, about 3 km south of the town of

Geleen Geleen (; li, Gelaen ) is a city in the southern part of the province of Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg in the Netherlands. With 31,670 inhabitants in 2020, it is part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen. Geleen is situated along the river Gele ...

.''ANWB Topografische Atlas Nederland'', Topografische Dienst and ANWB, 2005. Spaubeek was a separate municipality until 1982, when it was merged with Beek.

History

The village was first mentioned in 1175 as Spaltbeke, and means "valley with a brook". Spaubeek is a village which developed in the Middle Ages along the northern bank of

Geleenbeek The Geleenbeek (; li, Gelaenbaek ) is a river in Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, the Netherlands. Its source is near the village Benzenrade, part of the city of Heerlen. It flows generally northwest, along Nuth, Schinnen, Spaubeek, turns north at ...

. Three linear settlements later appeared on the southern bank. In 1557, Jansgeleen Castle became the seat for the ''

heerlijkheid A ''heerlijkheid'' (a Dutch word; pl. ''heerlijkheden''; also called ''heerschap''; Latin: ''Dominium'') was a landed estate that served as the lowest administrative and judicial unit in rural areas in the Dutch-speaking Low Countries before 1800. ...

'' Geleen en Spaubeek. The Catholic St Laurentius Church is a three-aisled basilica-like church made out of sand stone which was constructed between 1925 and 1926 as a replacement of the 1837 church. Huis Ten Dijken is an estate from the 17th century. The U-shaped residential area surrounded by a moat with an attached L-shaped office building. It was enlarged and modified several times during its history. Spaubeek was home to 222 people in 1840. In 1896, a railway station opened on the

Sittard Sittard (; ) is a city in the Netherlands, situated in the southernmost province of Limburg. The town is part of the municipality of Sittard-Geleen and has almost 37.500 inhabitants in 2016. In its east, Sittard borders the German municipali ...

Herzogenrath Herzogenrath ( Ripuarian: ; li, Hertseraoj; nl, ’s-Hertogenrade) is a municipality in the district of Aachen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It borders the Dutch town of Kerkrade, the national border in one section running alon ...

(Germany) railway line. The railway line physically separated the northern settlement from the southern settlement. The A76 later increased the separation. Between 1 November 1875 and 1880, there was an early station of the

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for medical aid to the population. Spaubeek was an independent municipality until 1982. The main part was merged into

. A smaller part was added to the municipality of

Jansgeleen Castle

The history of Spaubeek was closely connected to that of the

Jansgeleen Castle Jansgeleen Castle, now erroneously called ''Sint-Jansgeleen'' or ''Sint Jansgeleen'', was a medieval castle in the little village of Spaubeek, in the Dutch province of Limburg. Spaubeek is located in the municipality of Beek, about 3 km sout ...

, nowadays called ''Sint Jansgeleen''. This castle, built as House Spaubeek at a bench in the small

river in the 13th century, was the first seat of the former County of Geleen in the 16th century. It got its name ''Heer Jansgelene'' after one of the former owners, Lord Jan

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in the 15th century, but was later erroneously renamed as ''Sint Jansgeleen'' after St. John the Baptist. The castle, already in a bad shape at the end of the 19th century, and further damaged by the mine galleries of the nearby big Maurits mine at Geleen in the 1920s, was finally demolished in the 1930s. Only the buildings of the water mill (''Jansmolen'', hence ''Sint Jansmolen'') and the forecourt (16th century) have remained, now both provincial monuments.M.J.H.A. Schrijnemakers 1985: ''Sint Jansgeleen. Kasteel, hoeve en molens'', eries 'Wat Baek ós bud', 9 Beek-L: Drukkerij Econoom / Heemkunde-vereniging Beek-L..

People from Spaubeek

Dennis Dengering Dennis Dengering (born 6 March 1993) is a Dutch professional football player who last played as a right back for Fortuna Sittard in the Dutch Eerste Divisie. Club career He made his professional debut as Jong PSV player in the second division o ...

, football player *

Vivianne Heijnen Vivianne L.W.A. Heijnen (born 8 October 1982) is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party. She has been serving as the Minister for the Environment as part of the fourth Rutte cabinet since January 2022. Heijnen was prev ...

, politician *

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, musician

Gallery

Image:Compilatie Tranchot Huis Ten Dijcken.jpg, The old centre of Spaubeek (framed in red) on a map by Tranchot and Von Müffling from 1803 File:Huis ten Dijcken vanaf vijver.jpg, Huis ten Dijcken File:Spaubeek-Hoeve 6.JPG, Building in Spaubeek File:Spaubeek-Kerk (1).JPG, St Laurentius Church

References

{{Authority control Populated places in Limburg (Netherlands) Former municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands) Beek