Brunssum

Brunssum is a metropolis and municipality in the southeast of Dutch Limburg. The municipality has 28,121 inhabitants and has a place of ​​17.30 km². In addition to Brunssum, the hamlets Rumpen, Treebeek, Bouwberg and De Kling or Onder Merkelbeek have merged into the municipality of Brunssum. There are warning signs that there was already occupation within the region round Brunssum in prehistory. This additionally applies to the neighboring municipalities of Heerlen and Landgraaf.

Little is known approximately this habitation. Soil reveals and medieval facts indicate a non-stop occupation of this area in the last 2,000 years. In the Middle Ages, the land weather within the Schutterspark turned into raised for protection. The Brunssum parish has been recognised considering that 1150, and collectively with Schinveld and Jabeek it fashioned a deliver's bench within the Land of Valkenburg. In 1557 the ship bank of Brunssum, together with Brunssum, Schinveld and Jabeek, became elevated to glory through the Spanish government and pledged to the Hoen van Amstenrade family and in 1609 bought to Arnold III Huyn van Geleen.