
اسخینن
Sign in to saveSchinnen (; ) is a village and a former municipality in the province of Limburg, the Netherlands. It was home to US Army Garrison Schinnen, a support base for US personnel assigned to nearby Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum. It is also the location of Alfa Brewery, the only brewery in the Netherlands that uses an officially certified underground spring. In 2019, it merged with Nuth and Onderbanken to form the municipality of Beekdaelen.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Schinnen
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village and former municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Sjweikesewkped07.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Church in Sweikhuizen
- Settlement.image_flag
- Schinnen vlag.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 100x67px
- Settlement.image_shield
- Schinnen wapen.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 100x80px
- Settlement.shield_alt
- <!--
- Settlement.image_map
- Map - NL - Municipality code 0962 (2009).svg
- Settlement.map_alt
- Highlighted position of Schinnen in a municipal map of Limburg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Limburg -->
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Netherlands#Netherlands Limburg
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in the Netherlands##Location in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Netherlands
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Netherlands
- Country
- Netherlands
- Located in
- Limburg
- Population
- 1721
- Elevation
- 71
- Time zone
- Central European Time
- Shares border with
- Heerlen
- Official website
- www.schinnen.nl
- Image
- Kasteel Doenrade.jpg
- Households
- 5805
- Dialing code
- 046
Show 6 more facts
- contains settlement
- Puth
- topic's main category
- Category:Schinnen
- Commons category
- Schinnen
- postal code
- 6436–6439
- inception
- 1981-00-00
- native label
- Sjènne
via Wikidata · CC0
Gallery (2)
On the map
3 mapped locations