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Nieuwenhagen
Nieuwenhagen is a former village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is now a part of the municipality of Landgraaf. Nieuwenhagen was a separate municipality until 1982, when it became a part of Landgraaf.
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Landgraaf railway station
Landgraaf is a railway station in Landgraaf, Netherlands, situated near the district Schaesberg. Before 1986, it was called Schaesberg. The station was opened on 1 May 1896 and is located on the Sittard–Herzogenrath railway and the Heuvellandlijn (Maastricht–Kerkrade). Services are operated by Arriva and Deutsche Bahn.
Originally named Schaesberg, it was renamed in 1986 after the municipality of Landgraaf, which was formed in 1982 and includes Schaesberg. The Heerlen-Kerkrade line, which serves Landgraaf, was electrified in 1986, and the line to Herzogenrath was electrified in 2018. The station can be considered a fork station.
Facilities at the station include a ticket machine, bike lockers, a bike storage area, and car parking spaces. The former station building now houses an Italian restaurant.
Event Platform In 2012, ProRail extended one of the platforms from 85 to 146 meters and widened it from 3 to 6 meters to accommodate longer trains for the Pinkpop festival. Festival director Jan Smeets officially opened the platform with a special 'Pinkpop tile' on May 24, 2012.
Connections Landgraaf Station has three tracks: tracks 1 and 2 are on the Sittard-Kerkrade line, and track 3 is on the Maastricht-Aachen line.
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Landgraaf
Landgraaf (Dutch: [ˈlɑntxraːf] ; Limburgish: Lankgraaf [ˈlɑŋkxʀaːf]) is a municipality in southeastern Limburg, Netherlands, forming part of the Parkstad Limburg agglomeration. SnowWorld is the largest indoor ski piste in Europe.
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Schaesberg
Schaesberg (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈsxaːzbɛr(ə)x]; Limburgish: D'r Sjeet [dəʀ ˈʃeːt]) is a neighbourhood of Landgraaf and former village in the Dutch province of Limburg.
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Eygelshoven
Eygelshoven (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛiɣəlsɦoːvə(n)], Limburgish: Egelze [ˈeːɣəlzə], Ripuarian: Ejelze [ˈeːjəlzə]) is a village, since 1982 part of the town of Kerkrade, in the southeast of the Netherlands, close to the German and Belgian borders.
It has two former coal mines, Laura and Julia, which were named after the wives of the two owners. Both pits closed in 1974.
The local soccer club is also named after the former coal mines.
Eygelshoven has a small former church from the sixteenth century, which stands on top of a hill. In 1922, another church was built. Architect Alphons Boosten designed the new church. Plans to demolish the old church were abandoned in favour of a new use as a chapel and because of its historical worth.
A third Roman Catholic church was built in 1957, the Pastoor van Arskerk, which was torn down in 1994 when it became redundant.
The old mining village of Eygelshoven was a separate municipality until 1982, when after more than eight centuries it was merged with Kerkrade.
The dialect spoken in Eygelshoven is not the Ripuarian Kerkrade dialect, but a local East Limburgish variety called Egelzer plat. One of the biggest differences between the two is the pronunciation of the letter ⟨g⟩; in Eygelshoven, it is pronounced as a voiced velar fricative, as in southern Standard Dutch, whereas in Kerkrade it is pronounced as a palatal approximant (as in Colognian), except after back vowels.