Molenberg (literally Millhill) is a former mining colony in the south-western part of

Heerlen Heerlen (; ) is a city and a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands. It is the third largest settlement proper in the province of Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg. Measured as municipality, it is the f ...

, southeastern

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. When work started in 1913 it was called Molenbergpark (Millhillpark). Website Heerlen The mining colony was created to house mining executives (alongside the slope of the hill, towards the centre of Heerlen), engineers (alongside the mean road), and miners. Although much of the plan logical work was done by architect

Jan Stuyt Jan Stuyt (21 August 1868, Purmerend - 11 July 1934, The Hague) was a Dutch architect. Childhood and Education Stuyt was born the son of a cattle farmer. Due to the headmaster of his school, he was employed in 1883 at the office of Adrianus B ...

, there are/were also buildings designed by

Frits Peutz F.P.J. Peutz (7 April 1896 – 24 October 1974) was a Dutch architect. Biography Peutz was born in a Catholic family in Uithuizen in Groningen, a mostly Protestant province in the north of the Netherlands. In 1910 he was sent to the Rolduc boar ...

(Land house attorney Wijnands, 1919, the Broederschool (school building) 1921, Kapel Broederhuis, 1932), Theo Boosten (church Pius X (now demolished), 1961), and C. Franssen & J. Franssen (church Verschijning van de Onbevlekte Maagd, 1926). The first house were completed in 1916, in 1918 a second project was started, and between 1928 and 1938 the centre of Molenberg was filled. In 1951 the construction of another part was started, called the "Witte Wijk",
Witte Wijk website designed by Jos Klijnen.

References

Populated places in Limburg (Netherlands) Heerlen {{LimburgNL-geo-stub