Landgraaf
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Script error: No such module "Settlement short description".
Landgraaf
| |
|---|---|
| Watermill at Strijthagen castle Watermill at Strijthagen castle | |
| Template:Infobox settlement/columns | |
| Highlighted position of Landgraaf in a municipal map of Limburg Location in Limburg | |
| Coordinates: 50°54′N 6°1′E / 50.900°N 6.017°ECoordinates: 50°54′N 6°1′E / 50.900°N 6.017°E | |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Province | Limburg |
| Government | |
| • Body | Municipal council |
| • Mayor | Richard de Boer (Template:Polparty) |
| Area | |
| • Total | Template:Infobox settlement/areadisp |
| • Land | Template:Infobox settlement/areadisp |
| • Water | Template:Infobox settlement/areadisp |
| Elevation | Template:Infobox settlement/lengthdisp |
| Population | |
| • Total | Template:Dutch municipality population |
| • Density | Template:Infobox settlement/densdisp |
| Demonym(s) | Landgravenaar |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postcode | 6370–6374 |
| Area code | 045 |
| Website | www |
Landgraaf (nl; Template:Langx li)[tone?] is a municipality in southeastern Limburg, Netherlands, forming part of the Parkstad Limburg agglomeration. SnowWorld is the largest indoor ski piste in Europe.
Population centres
[edit | edit source]Topography
[edit | edit source]File:Gem-Landgraaf-OpenTopo.jpg
Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Landgraaf, June 2015
Attractions
[edit | edit source]A pop music festival called Pinkpop is held annually on the Pentecost weekend in Schaesberg, a town in Landgraaf.
Landgraaf is home to the largest indoor ski piste in Europe, called SnowWorld.[5]
Notable natives
[edit | edit source]- Johan Kremers (born 1933 in Nieuwenhagen) a Queen's Commissioner of Limburg from 1977 to 1990
- Harry Kempen (1937 in Nieuwenhagen – 2000) a cultural psychologist and academic
- Joep Lange (1954 in Nieuwenhagen – 2014) a Dutch clinical researcher in HIV therapy, International AIDS Society from 2002 to 2004
- Annemarie Mol (born 1958 in Schaesberg) a Dutch ethnographer, philosopher and academic
- Henk Blezer (born 1961 in Schaesberg) a Dutch Tibetologist, Indologist, and scholar of Buddhist studies
- Sharon Walraven (born 1970 in Schaesberg) a Dutch wheelchair tennis player, silver medallist at the 2000 Paralympics and gold medallist at the 2008 Paralympics
- Carach Angren (formed 2003 in Landgraaf) is a symphonic black metal band
See also
[edit | edit source]Gallery
[edit | edit source]-
Woonhuis Broekhuizenstraat, Landgraaf
-
Im Freizeitpark - Mondo Verde
-
Pastorie Nieuwenhagerheide Hoogstraat
-
Im Freizeitpark - Mondo Verde
-
Grensstraat 129 gevel, Landgraaf-Waubach
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ "Burgemeester en wethouders" [Mayor and aldermen] (in Dutch). Gemeente Landgraaf. Archived from the original on 2 November 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2013.
- ↑ Template:Dutch municipality total area
- ↑ "Postcodetool for 6371LA". Actueel Hoogtebestand Nederland (in Dutch). Het Waterschapshuis. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
- ↑ Template:Dutch municipality population
- ↑ Snow World Landgraaf
External links
[edit | edit source] |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Landgraaf. |
Landgraaf travel guide from Wikivoyage- Official website
.svg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
Template:Geographic location Template:Limburg Province (Netherlands)