Geleen
Geleen ( Limburg terrain ) is a town in the Dutch province of Limburg with about 32,790 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2006). The previously independent city joined on 1 January 2001 with the northern city of Sittard and the municipality Born to the newly formed city of Sittard -Geleen together, which is almost a city with a good 97,000. Geleen Sittard is the second largest district of the city.
Location
Geleen is located in the south of the Netherlands between the Meuse River, which forms the border with Belgium in the west and the border with Germany to the east. The coordinates are 50 ° 58'10 N and 5 ° 49'37 O. and postcodes loud 6160-6167.
Infrastructure
The industrial nature place ( especially the chemical industry with companies such as DSM is dominant ) is located at the intersection of Dutch motorways or roads Europe A2 / E 25 and A76 / E 314
Geleen has two regional stations on the railway lines Liège -Maastricht - Roermond- Geleen - Eindhoven and Heerlen - Kerkrade -Geleen - Roermond.
Maastricht Aachen Airport and the airports of Eindhoven, Liege and Cologne / Bonn Airport are the nearest regional airports and Brussels National Airport and Amsterdam are international airports.
Sons and daughters of the city
- Ton Caanen (born 1966 ), football coach
- Rick Geenen (* 1988), football player
- Dominick Muermans (* 1984), race car driver
- Jean Nelissen (1936-2010), a sports journalist