Schinnen (; ) is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

and a former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the province of

Limburg Limburg or Limbourg may refer to: Regions * Limburg (Belgium), a province since 1839 in the Flanders region of Belgium * Limburg (Netherlands), a province since 1839 in the south of the Netherlands * Diocese of Limburg, Roman Catholic Diocese in ...

, the

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 ...

. It was home to

US Army The United States Army (USA) is the primary land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of the United Stat ...

Garrison Schinnen, a support base for US personnel assigned to nearby

Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum (JFCBS) is a NATO command with its headquarters at Brunssum, the Netherlands. It was established in 2004, as part of a reorganisation that reduced the number of NATO Military Command Structure headquarters. H ...

. It is also the location of Alfa Brewery, the only brewery in the Netherlands that uses an officially certified underground spring. In 2019, it merged with

Nuth Nuth (; ) is a village and a former Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the province of Limburg, situated in the southern Netherlands. In January 2019, the municipality merged with Schinnen and Onderbanken to form Beekdaelen. The v ...

and

Onderbanken Onderbanken (; ) was a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. In 2019, it merged with Nuth and Schinnen to form Beekdaelen. Population centres Bingelrade, Douvergenhout, Etzenrade, Jabeek, Merkelbeek, Op den Hering, Quabeek, Raath ...

to form

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 ...

Cities and towns

Amstenrade Amstenrade is a village in the municipality of Beekdaelen, in the Netherlands. It is located about 7 km northwest of Heerlen. The Amstenrade Castle is located in the village. History The village was first mentioned in 1274 as Anstenroden, a ...

* Doenrade *

Oirsbeek Oirsbeek is a village in the southeast of the Netherlands, part of the municipality of Beekdaelen. Between 1839 and 1982, Oirsbeek was a separate municipality. The Sint Lambertuskerk, a Roman Catholic Church, was built in 1951 by Frits Peutz on ...

* Puth *Schinnen * Sweikhuizen

Topography

''Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Schinnen, June 2015''

Notable people

* Hans Erkens (born 1952),

AFC Ajax Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also known as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam, or commonly Ajax, is a Dutch professional Association football, football Football team, club based in Amsterdam, that plays in the , the top tier in Dutch football. ...

footballer *

Frans Körver Franciscus Arnoldus Mattheus Körver (31 July 1937 – 14 December 2024) was a Dutch professional football player and manager. Career Körver made his debut for Sittardia in 1959 and played over 50 matches for the club before joining Limburg ...

(1937-2024), footballer * Henk van der Linden (1925–2021), film director *

G. M. Nijssen Gerardus Maria "Sjir" Nijssen (born 18 October 1938, Schinnen) is a Dutch computer scientist, former professor of computer science at the University of Queensland,''Australian Computer Journal,'' Vol. 19-20, 1987, p. 75. consultant, and author. N ...

(born 1938), computer scientist * Henri Ritzen (1892–1976), painter * Theo Rutten (1899–1980), politician and minister *

Julie Zwarthoed Julie Zwarthoed (born 25 September 1994) is a Dutch ice hockey winger and captain of SDE HF in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL). She has represented the Netherlands at nine IIHF World Championships. Playing career Zwarthoed began pla ...

(born 1994), ice hockey player

References

External links

* Beekdaelen South Limburg (Netherlands) Former municipalities of Limburg (Netherlands) Populated places in Limburg (Netherlands) Municipalities of the Netherlands disestablished in 2019 {{LimburgNL-geo-stub