Roerdalen

Roerdalen Template:Native name
Municipality
Church in Melick Church in Melick
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Highlighted position of Roerdalen in a municipal map of Limburg Location in Limburg
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Coordinates: 51°9′N 6°0′E
Country	Netherlands
Province	Limburg
Established	1 January 1991
Government
• Body	Municipal council
• Mayor	Jeffrey van Agtmaal (Template:Polparty)
Area
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Population  (Template:Dutch municipality population)
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Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postcode	6060–6065, 6074–6077
Area code	0475
Website	www.roerdalen.nl

Roerdalen (nl; Template:Langx li) is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands, in the province of Limburg. As of Template:Dutch municipality population, it had about Template:Dutch municipality population inhabitants and borders Germany.

Roerdalen is the renaming of the municipality of Melick en Herkenbosch in 1993.

Population centres

• Herkenbosch
• Melick
• Montfort
• Posterholt
• Reutje
• Sint Odiliënberg
• Vlodrop

Topography

File:Gem-Roerdalen-OpenTopo.jpg

Dutch Topographic map of the municipality of Roerdalen, June 2015

Notable people

• Hubert Biermans (1864 in Herkenbosch - 1953) a Dutch and Canadian businessman
• Connie Palmen (born 1955 in Sint Odiliënberg) a Dutch author
• Geert Chatrou (born 1969 in Sint Odiliënberg) a professional whistler
• Jos Verstappen (born 1972 in Montfort) a Dutch former racing driver
• Joeri Verlinden (born 1988 in Melick) a Dutch swimmer, competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Gallery

• Windmill (molen van Verbeek) in Sint Odiliënberg
  Windmill (molen van Verbeek) in Sint Odiliënberg
• River Roer
  River Roer
• Ruined Building detail of Kolleg St. Ludwig
  Ruined Building detail of Kolleg St. Ludwig
• Road between St. Odilienberg Paarlo, looking towards St. Odilienberg
  Road between St. Odilienberg Paarlo, looking towards St. Odilienberg
• Basiliek van de H.H. Wiro
  Basiliek van de H.H. Wiro
• Montfort church
  Montfort church
• Voorhof
  Voorhof
• Sculpture by Nicolas van Ronkenstein
  Sculpture by Nicolas van Ronkenstein
• Montfort former vicarage.
  Montfort former vicarage.
• Montfort former townhall
  Montfort former townhall
• Vlodrop
  Vlodrop
• Church (de Sint Sebastianuskerk) in Herkenbosch
  Church (de Sint Sebastianuskerk) in Herkenbosch

External links

• Media related to Roerdalen at Wikimedia Commons
• (in Dutch) Official website

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