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unusual facts about Sittard-Geleen


Settela Steinbach

Anna Maria (Settela) Steinbach (December 23, 1934, Buchten – July 31, 1944) was a Dutch girl who was gassed in Nazi Germany's Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.


Chris Dekker

Dekker played his last match on 10 March 1985, and became a football manager, who coached Fortuna Sittard, FC Eindhoven, Al-Jazira (United Arab Emirates), FC Den Bosch, Qatar (– 17), RBC Roosendaal, Sparta Rotterdam and Fortuna Sittard once again.

Geleen

In July 2002, DSM's petrochemicals business, located on the manufacturing locations in Geleen and Gelsenkirchen (Germany) were acquired by SABIC Europe.

The State mining company DSM (privatised in 1989) however remained active in Geleen, now purely as a chemicals producer.

Geleen Eaters

The Geleen Smoke Eaters, named after the Trail Smoke Eaters, played their first game against Amsterdam on November 2, 1968.

Jansgeleen Castle

The castle, already in a bad shape at the end of the 19th century, and further damaged by the mine galleries of the nearby big Maurits mine at Geleen in the 1920s, was finally demolished in the 1930s.

Johannes Sittard

Sittard also has a Doctorate in Metallurgy and a Master’s Degree in Iron and Steelmaking from Clausthal University of Technology.

Nonnevot

Hailing from the town of Sittard the pastry has traditionally been associated with carnival (Limburgian: Vastelaovend), but is nowadays sold year-round in regional bakeries.


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