Parkstad Limburg (; Ripuarian and ) is a conurbation of seven

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in the southern part of the province of Limburg in the

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. Consisting 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 ...

Kerkrade Kerkrade (; Kerkrade dialect, Ripuarian: ; ; or ''Kirchrath'') is a town and a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southeast of Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, the southernmost province of the Netherlands. It forms part of the P ...

Landgraaf Landgraaf (; ) 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 * Nieuwenhagen * Schaesberg * Ubach over W ...

Brunssum Brunssum (; ) is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a town in the province of Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg in the Netherlands. The municipality of Brunssum has residents as of . Brunssum was a center of coal mining until 197 ...

Simpelveld Simpelveld (; ) is a municipality and a town in the southeastern Netherlands. It is part of the municipal cooperative unit Parkstad Limburg. Simpelveld is part of the ''Mergelland'', named after the presence of chalk (mergel), hill country popu ...

Voerendaal Voerendaal (; ) is a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality and a town in the southeastern Netherlands. Population centres ''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Voerendaal, June 2015'' History The Romans left the ruins from ...

and

Beekdaelen Beekdaelen (; ) is a municipality in the province of Limburg, situated in the southern Netherlands. It was formed as a merger of Nuth, Onderbanken and Schinnen. Beekdaelen has 35,853 inhabitants. It does not have a capital. The town hall of the m ...

, the municipalities work together to improve public services, transport, and housing on a regional level. This collaboration started in 1999. Within Parkstad, the city of

functions as the centre of economic and social activity, and to a lesser extent the cities of

and

function in the same regard as regional hubs.

Land use

The name Parkstad, Dutch for "Park City", is derived from the relative greenness of the towns, 94,17 km² (53%) of its area used for non-urban purposes. However, only 10% of the area (roughly 17.8 km²) is forest and nature, 42% (roughly 74.96 km²) is used for agriculture. Previously, the area had been known as Oostelijke Mijnstreek or ''Eastern Mining District'', as it was the primary

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area of the Netherlands.

IBA Parkstad 2020

In 2012 Parkstad became the site of the first

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(IBA) in the Netherlands, running until 2020. The International Architecture Exhibition is a German concept in which new social, cultural and technological ideas are implemented within eight to ten years. Parkstad is one of the first regions in the Netherlands to face negative demographic growth. It is hoped that the IBA helps to find new strategies to deal with this phenomenon.

Alien activity in Parkstad Limburg

Alien activity in Parkstad Limburg references the many UFO-encounters in

. An

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base in

, and

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. The reason many plots of land in Parkstad are forbidden to access for reasons unknown, one popular theory according to Parkstadians is the high condensation of Zwartzand (English: Black Sand) and is presumed to be found under Silversandmine Heihoven and the Sigrano in the middle of a residential area, Black Sand is thought to cause lung cancer and skin cancer, both the Scrantonmeer and Silversandmine Heihoven are also forbidden parts. The first blockages of random plots of land was in the early 1960s.https://www.ufomeldpunt.nl/?maand=&jaar=&provincie=6 , title: UFO Meldpunt Limburg

References

External links

* Regions of Limburg (Netherlands) South Limburg (Netherlands) {{LimburgNL-geo-stub

Land use

IBA Parkstad 2020

Alien activity in Parkstad Limburg

See also

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