Geleen

Geleen Oost is a railway station located in Geleen, Netherlands. The station opened in 1896 and is located on the Sittard–Herzogenrath railway. The station is operated by Arriva. Until December 2006 the Haarlem–Heerlen Intercity service called at this station.

Staatsmijn Maurits was a state-owned coal mine in Geleen, Netherlands. In 1911 the Dutch Government bought the concessions "Maasvelden". In 1912 and 1913 drillings were carried out by the Internationale Bohrgesellschaft Erkelenz in the areas west of the Staatsmijn Emma and Staatsmijn Hendrik concessions. Drillings were made at the towns of Geleen-Lutterade, Krawinkel and Schinnen. Additional shallow drillings were made near Urmond. In 1915 it was decided to position the mine at Lutterade, Geleen. Railways were constructed for connection with the railway Sittard-Maastricht. In 1916 it was decided to name this 4th State Mine "Maurits", after 17th century stadtholder Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange. In 1916, construction of the shafts was begun and the mine was taken in production in 1926. In 1947 the mine was connected to the Emma Mine by a 13 km straight tunnel. In the second half of the 1940s and in the 1950s the mine was expanded, and mining reached a depth of 810 m. A third shaft was completed in 1958. At the time of completion of the third shaft, the Maurits mine was the largest two-shafts mine in the world. It was the largest coal mine in the Netherlands. When in the beginning of the 1960s the economic tide for coal mining turned, it was already anticipated to close the Maurits as one of the first mines. The mine was finally closed down in 1967. The surface facilities were afterwards demolished. Directly adjacent to the mine site, DSM had already decades before started with cokes production and gasproduction. The "Stikstof Bindingsbedrijf" (SBB - or "nitrogen bonding plant") became the locus for the next step in the history of DSM: it became (and still is) a large chemicals company.

Geleen-Lutterade railway station is located in the neighbourhood Lutterade within the municipality of Sittard-Geleen, Netherlands. The railway station opened in 1862 on the Maastricht–Venlo railway. The station was originally called Geleen but later changed to Lutterade. The station received its current name in 1954.

Lutterade (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈlʏtəˌraːdə]; Limburgish: Lötterao [ˈlœtəʀɔː]) is a district of Geleen and later Sittard-Geleen (a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands, in the province of Limburg).

Abshoven (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑpsˌɦoː.və(n)]; Limburgish: Abshaove) is a hamlet in the municipality of Sittard-Geleen in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands. It is located to the south of Munstergeleen and to the east of Geleen. The hamlet has approximately forty houses and is located on the Abshoven and Beekstraat roads. The hamlet is dominated by the remains of the Abshoven monastery.

Neerbeek is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Beek. The village has a population of around 2,400 people. The village used to split between the Dutch Republic and the Spanish Netherlands.

The Fortuna Sittard Stadion (Dutch pronunciation: [fɔrˌtynaː ˈsɪtɑrt ˌstaːdijɔn]) is a 12,500-capacity multi-use stadium on the Milaanstraat, Sittard, Netherlands. Currently used mostly for football matches, it is the home stadium of Fortuna Sittard. Built on the site of an industrial estate in 1999, it replaced Fortuna Sittard's former stadium, De Baandert. There is a multi-storey car park with 800 spaces under the stadium and two parking spaces in the immediate vicinity. In 2013, they began to expand the stadion with an extra sports centrum next to it, a new hotel, a Aldi-Nord discount supermarket in the stadium and a whole new look.

Spaubeek is a railway station located in the village of Spaubeek, in the Dutch municipality of Beek. The station was opened on 1 May 1896 and is located on the Sittard–Herzogenrath railway. Train services are operated by Arriva.

Spaubeek is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Beek, about 3 km south of the town of Geleen. Spaubeek was a separate municipality until 1982, when it was merged with Beek.

Munstergeleen (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʏnstərɣəˌleːn]; Limburgish: Munstergelaen [ˈmʏnstəʀɣəˌlɛːn]) is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Sittard-Geleen, and it lies in the Western Mine Region (Westelijke Mijnstreek in Dutch).

Genhout is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Beek, and consists of two former settlements: the village Groot Genhout (Big Genhout) and the hamlet Klein Genhout (Little Genhout). Since 2005, the two settlements are no longer distinguished. It is located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north-east of Maastricht.

Sittard is a railway station located in Sittard, Netherlands. The station was opened in 1862 and is located on the Maastricht–Venlo railway and the Sittard–Herzogenrath railway. Train services are operated by Nederlandse Spoorwegen and Arriva. All services from South Limburg to the north pass through Sittard. Sittard has the longest railway platform in the Netherlands with a length of 700 metres.