Limburg places with a double name

Frits Pieper
28 July 2015

With a route planner you can never go wrong, right? Well, not entirely. Because imagine if you accidentally select a similar place name and not your intended destination..There are quite a few place names in Limburg with a double name, which also occur elsewhere in the country.

Here follows eand overview of similar place names in Limburg (Limburg place names with a namesake in the Netherlands). Pay attention?

Baarlo

Besides being a village in the Limburg municipality of Peel en Maas, Baarlo also a hamlet in the Overijssel municipality of Steenwijkerland. Pay attention so if you enter this name in your route planner.

Beek

Beek is the main town of the municipality of the same name in Limburg. But the is also the name of a village in the municipality of Groesbeek in Gelderland and of a village centre in Montferland, also in Gelderland. Beek is also one of the two centres that together form the village of Beek en Donk, in the Brabant municipality of Laarbeek. But the Limburg Beek might be still the most confused with the town of the same name in Belgian Limburg. So pay extra attention!

Bergen

Bergen is a place and municipality in North Limburg and the name of a seaside resort and municipality in North Holland. Even looking out if you want to go to the coast, because that is miles away from Limburg.

Boiler

Kessel is a place in the Limburgish municipality of Peel en Maas, but also a village that is part of the municipality of Oss, which you will know it is located in Brabant. Make no mistake, the two places are an hour's drive apart.

Eastrum

Two places in the Netherlands could not be further apart. Besides the Limburg municipality of Venray, there is also an Oostrum in Friesland. A tiny villagevillage with approximately 200 inhabitants, just over two and a half hours' drive from his Limburg namesake.

Stone

Stein is the main town of the Limburg municipality of the same name, but there is also a hamlet in South Holland that goes by the same nameThe latter is also known as Land van Stein.

Valkenburg

Valkenburg is a known Limburg tourist village in the municipality of Valkenburg aan de Geul, but in the South Holland municipality of Katwijk there is also a Valkenburg. Just like in the province of Utrecht (municipality of Rhenen).

As far as how know, are these all Limburg place names with a similar name elsewhere in the country. Do you know another one? Then leave a comment.

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6 comments

  1. jc wheels on July 30, 2015 at 17:06 PM

    How about 2x weert in limburg? We all know one but the other is near meerssen

  2. Marjan on July 31, 2015 at 10:32 PM

    Elsloo (in the municipality of Stein if I'm not mistaken) also has a doppelganger in Friesland. The Frisian town is located near Appelscha.

    • Frits Pieper on August 7, 2015 at 07:47

      Dear Marjan, thank you for your addition!

  3. Emanuel on April 10, 2016 at 13:51 am

    Mountain (municipality Valkenburg) and Mountain between Urmond and Obbicht

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