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Beekdaelen
Beekdaelen (; ) 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 hall of the municipality is currently situated in the village Nuth, which is the biggest population centre in the municipality with 6,520 inhabitants. The other fourteen villages in the municipality are Amstenrade with 2,670 inhabitants, Bingelrade with 796 inhabitants, Doenrade with 1,122 inhabitants, Hulsberg with 3,954 inhabitants, Jabeek with 752 inhabitants, Merkelbeek with 1,564 inhabitants, Oirsbeek with 3,733 inhabitants, Puth (Netherlands), Puth with 2,004 inhabitants, Schimmert with 3,236 inhabitants, Schinnen with 2,692 inhabitants, Schinveld with 4,629 inhabitants, Sweikhuizen with 690 inhabitants, and Wijnandsrade with 1,631 inhabitants. The other population centres belong to one of the following villages. Politics The government of Bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schinnen
Schinnen (; ) is a village and a former Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the province of Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, the Netherlands. It was home to United States Army, US Army Garrison Schinnen, a support base for People from the United States, US personnel assigned to nearby Joint Force Command Brunssum, Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum. It is also the location of Alfa Brewery, the only brewery in the Netherlands that uses an officially certified spring (water), underground spring. In 2019, it merged with Nuth and Onderbanken to form Beekdaelen. Cities and towns *Amstenrade *Doenrade *Oirsbeek *Puth (Netherlands), Puth *Schinnen *Sweikhuizen Topography ''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Schinnen, June 2015'' Notable people * Hans Erkens (born 1952), AFC Ajax footballer * Frans Körver (1937-2024), footballer * Henk van der Linden (filmmaker), Henk van der Linden (1925–2021), film director * G. M. Nijssen (born 1938), computer scienti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
