Schaesberg
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.svg){kind=small} Limburg
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 Landgraaf
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Area - land - water |
8.71 km 2 8.66 km 2 0.05 km 2 |
| Residents | 16,025 (Jan. 1, 2018) |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 54 ' N , 6 ° 1' E |
| Important traffic route |
 
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| prefix | 045 |
| Postcodes | 6372 |
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Schaesberg is a formerly independent municipality in Dutch Limburg , which has formed the municipality of Landgraaf since 1982 with Ubach over Worms and Nieuwenhagen .
There are two churches from the 17th century and the ruins of the castle of the Lords of Schaesberg, the Schaesberg moated castle in the Maasland Renaissance style . The lords and later imperial counts of Schaesberg lived in the castle until the 18th century. After the French occupation, the building fell more and more into disrepair. In 1965 the outer bailey burned down.
The castle was expropriated in 1945 by the Dutch state as enemy property without compensation because the family of the Counts of Schaesberg had their residence in Tannheim in Germany since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and was compensated there with land from the Reichsabbey of Ochsenhausen . The buildings fell into final disrepair. The ruins have been consolidated since 1975.
Hard coal mining
In the first half of the 20th century, the region around Kerkrade , Heerlen , Hoensbroek , Brunssum , Eygelshoven and Schaesberg became the center of Dutch coal mining . The region was also called "Oostelijke Mijnstreek" (there was also a "Westelijke Mijnstreek", which was formed by the municipalities of Beek, Schinnen, Stein and the then independent municipality of Geleen).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2018 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on August 1, 2018 (Dutch)
- ↑ aachener-zeitung.de December 12, 2012: Always new damage: The mining industry is catching up with Parkstad