Stein

Stein is a municipality and a town inside the southeastern Netherlands. The municipality had a population of 25,031 in 2017 and covers a place of twenty-two.Sixty two km2 of which 1.47 km2 is water. The municipality of Stein makes part of the place of South Limburg and lies among the city of Geleen inside the east and Beek inside the southeast, and lies furthermore west of interchange Kerensheide and the chemical industries of Chemelot. To the west lies the Belgian border, throughout the Meuse river. In assessment to other towns and villages inside the location, Stein is fairly large.

It is also the capital metropolis of the municipality with the identical name. It has i.A. Three Roman Catholic church buildings, an abandoned mediaeval citadel, and a port to the Juliana Canal which was once the second one biggest inland port in all of Europe. On 29 October 2009, the shopping center of Stein suffered a excessive fire. As a end result of the calamity, the metropolis in the end misplaced forty shops, 2 banks, 1 eating place and six houses. The adjacent, iconic, eleven-tale rental constructing 'De Stevel', remained intact.