Molenberg
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Molenberg is a former mining colony in the south-western part of Heerlen
, southeastern Netherlands
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When work started in 1913 it was called Molenbergpark (Millhillpark).
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
, there are/where also buildings designed by Frits Peutz
(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 1928-1938 the centre of Molenberg was filled.
In 1951 the construction of another part was started, called the "Witte Wijk", designed by Jos Klijnen.
Heerlen
Heerlen is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. The municipality is the second largest in the province of Limburg. It forms part of Parkstad Limburg, , an agglomeration of about 220,000 inhabitants.After its early Roman beginnings and a rather modest medieval period, Heerlen...
, southeastern Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
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When work started in 1913 it was called Molenbergpark (Millhillpark).
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
Jan Stuyt was a Dutch architect.Stuyt started his architectural career in 1883 at the office of A.C. Bleys , whose neo-Romanesque style would become of great influence on Stuyt...
, there are/where also buildings designed by Frits Peutz
Frits Peutz
F.P.J. Peutz was a Dutch architect.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 boarding school in Kerkrade in the Catholic province of Limburg for his higher education. In 1914 he...
(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 1928-1938 the centre of Molenberg was filled.
In 1951 the construction of another part was started, called the "Witte Wijk", designed by Jos Klijnen.