page_title: Heerlen
section_title: People from Heerlen
hierarchical_section_title: Heerlen / People from Heerlen
caption_attribution_description: English: This picture of a bust of Frans de Wever was taken by me, Maarten van Wesel, in Heerlen.
context_page_description: Heerlen is a city and a municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands. It is the third largest settlement proper in the province of Limburg. Measured as municipality, it is the fourth municipality in the province of Limburg.
  Heerlen forms part of the city-region of Parkstad Limburg, an agglomeration with about 250,000 inhabitants and encompassing 8 municipalities. It is to the east of Maastricht and north of the German city of Aachen.
  After its early Roman beginnings and a modest medieval period, Heerlen became a centre for the coal mining industry in the Netherlands in the late 19th century. In the 20th century, architect Frits Peutz played a major role in shaping the city as we know it today. His most famous design, and a distinctive building in the city centre, is the so-called Glaspaleis, listed as one of the world's thousand most architecturally important buildings of the 20th century.
context_section_description: A chronological list of notable Heerlenaren (inhabitants of Heerlen):
caption: bust of Frans de Wever, 2011
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