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Heerlen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦeːrlə(n)] ⓘ; Limburgish: Heële [ˈɦeə˦lə]) is a city and a municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands. It is the third largest settlement proper in the province of Limburg .
The station was opened on 1 May 1896 and is located on the Sittard–Herzogenrath railway and the Heerlen–Schin op Geul railway [de; nl].The station was an important mining station, until the mines closed down.
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The station lies between Voerendaal and Heerlen on the Heerlen–Schin op Geul railway [de; nl], which is part of the Heuvellandlijn (Maastricht–Heerlen–Kerkrade). The station was named after the adjacent Woonboulevard Heerlen [ nl ] , a collection of furniture and home decoration shops.
Municipality / Coat of arms Main town Location COROP Inhabitants Area (km²) Population centres Image Beek: Beek South Limburg: 16,710 21.00 Beekdaelen
Map of the municipality Heerlen, showing the neighbourhood Grasbroek in red, which is part of the quarter Schandelen-Grasbroek in light red. Typical house of the neighbourhood at Grasbroek 5-7, marked as national monument number 21223. Grasbroek is a neighbourhood and former mining colony in the municipality Heerlen, Netherlands.
South Limburg (Dutch: Zuid-Limburg, Limburgish: Zuud-Limburg) is both a COROP (statistical) region as well as a landstreek (area) of the Netherlands located in the province of Limburg. The Dutch term landstreek , literally translated "land area/region", means that the area is not an administrative region but an area that displays cohesion with ...
This necessitated the construction of new residential areas, with the result that Heerlen & Hoensbroek grew closer to each other. Today Hoensbroek & Heerlen now form a contiguous and built-up area. Only the tip, the former Oranje Nassau III mine, currently designed as a park, represents a kind of barrier between the towns.