Molenberg
Molenberg is a former mining colony in the south-western part of Heerlen, southeastern Netherlands. When work started in 1913 it was called Molenbergpark.Places of Interest
Highlights include Verschijning van de Onbevlekte Maagd en Pius X-kerk and Oliemolen.
Verschijning van de Onbevlekte Maagd en Pius X-kerk
Church
Verschijning van de Onbevlekte Maagd en Pius X-kerk is a church.
Oliemolen
Watermill
Photo: Timo Beil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Oliemolen is a 16th-century watermill located at the foot of a steep hill in the Aambos, Heerlen in the Netherlands. The name already tells us much about its function, extracting oil, but this was not always the case as it first functioned as a volmolen.
Bernardinuscollege
School
Photo: Timo Beil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bernardinuscollege is a school in Heerlen, the Netherlands. The school was founded by Franciscan friars in 1903 as a monastery, that was later converted to a Hogere Burgerschool, because of the need for education in the wake of the blooming mining industry.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Onderste Caumer and Leenhof.
Schaesberg
Quarter
Photo: CvandenHil, Public domain.
Schaesberg is a neighbourhood of Landgraaf and former village in the Dutch province of Limburg.
Molenberg
- Type: Quarter
- Description: neighborhood in Heerlen, Netherlands
- Categories: neighborhood, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Heerlen, South Limburg, Limburg, Southern Netherlands, Netherlands, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
50.88568° or 50° 53′ 8″ northLongitude
5.99705° or 5° 59′ 49″ eastElevation
142 metres (466 feet)Open location code
9F27VXPW+7ROpenStreetMap ID
node 6176384573OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarter
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Molenberg” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Molenberg”
- French: “Molenberg”
- Irish: “Molenberg”
- Limburgan: “Muëleberg”
- Ukrainian: “Моленберг”
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