Spaubeek

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Spaubeek
Sjpaubik / Sjpawbik
Village
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Jansgeleen Castle
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Coat of arms
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Spaubeek
Location in the Netherlands
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Spaubeek
Location in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands
Coordinates: 50°56′16″N5°50′29″E / 50.93778°N 5.84139°E / 50.93778; 5.84139
Country Netherlands
Province Limburg
Municipality Beek
Area
[1]
 • Total5.36 km2 (2.07 sq mi)
Elevation
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93 m (305 ft)
Population
 (2021) [1]
 • Total3,345
 • Density620/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
6176 [1]
Dialing code 046

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. [3] Spaubeek was a separate municipality until 1982, when it was merged with Beek. [4]

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History

The village was first mentioned in 1175 as Spaltbeke, and means "valley with a brook". [5] Spaubeek is a village which developed in the Middle Ages along the northern bank of Geleenbeek. Three linear settlements later appeared on the southern bank. [6] In 1557, Jansgeleen Castle became the seat for the heerlijkheid Geleen en Spaubeek. [7]

The Catholic St Laurentius Church is a three-aisled basilica-like church made out of sand stone which was constructed between 1925 and 1926 as a replacement of the 1837 church. [6]

Huis Ten Dijken is an estate from the 17th century. The U-shaped residential area surrounded by a moat with an attached L-shaped office building. It was enlarged and modified several times during its history. [6]

Spaubeek was home to 222 people in 1840. [7] In 1896, a railway station opened on the Sittard to Herzogenrath (Germany) railway line. [8] The railway line physically separated the northern settlement from the southern settlement. The A76 later increased the separation. [6] Between 1 November 1875 and c. 1880, there was an early station of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ for medical aid to the population.

Spaubeek was an independent municipality until 1982. The main part was merged into Beek. A smaller part was added to the municipality of Geleen. [7]

Jansgeleen Castle

The history of Spaubeek was closely connected to that of the Jansgeleen Castle, nowadays called Sint Jansgeleen. This castle, built as House Spaubeek at a bench in the small Geleen river in the 13th century, was the first seat of the former County of Geleen in the 16th century. It got its name Heer Jansgelene after one of the former owners, Lord Jan Rode van Opsinnich in the 15th century, but was later erroneously renamed as Sint Jansgeleen after St. John the Baptist.

The castle, already in a bad shape at the end of the 19th century, and further damaged by the mine galleries of the nearby big Maurits mine at Geleen in the 1920s, was finally demolished in the 1930s. Only the buildings of the water mill (Jansmolen, hence Sint Jansmolen) and the forecourt (16th century) have remained, now both provincial monuments. [9]

People from Spaubeek

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2021". Central Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  2. ↑ "Postcodetool for 6176AA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  3. ↑ ANWB Topografische Atlas Nederland, Topografische Dienst and ANWB, 2005.
  4. ↑ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten , KNAW, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Spaubeek - (geografische naam)". Etymologiebank (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 April 2022. Authenticity of the 1148 reference is in doubt
  6. 1 2 3 4 Sabine Broekhoven, & Ronald Stenvert (2003). Spaubeek (in Dutch). Zwolle: Waanders. ISBN   90 400 9623 6 . Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  7. 1 2 3 "Spaubeek". Plaatsengids (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  8. ↑ "station Spaubeek". Stationsweb (in Dutch). Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  9. ↑ M.J.H.A. Schrijnemakers 1985: Sint Jansgeleen. Kasteel, hoeve en molens, [Series 'Wat Baek ós bud', 9], Beek-L: Drukkerij Econoom / Heemkunde-vereniging Beek-L.
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