Receive a notification on your phone when an incident occurs in your area as well as handy tips to be better prepared for all kinds of incidents. That is the power of the new website and app zuidlimburgveilig.nl.
Starting at the beginning of this week, the bicycle parking lot on Akerstraat will again be open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday. On Sundays it will be from 12:00 to 18:00.
On May 4, it is Remembrance Day. We then commemorate all war victims. On May 5 it's Liberation Day. We celebrate the end of the Second World War in the Netherlands. Also in Heerlen we remember these two days. The municipality organizes on May 4 in cooperation with Comité 4 en 5 mei Heerlen, Joint Neighborhood Foundations Hoensbroek and SBWM/Viergebrook a memorial meeting in Heerlen and Hoensbroek.
On Saturday, April 19, the municipality of Heerlen, together with Queer Parkstad, will open the Pride Photo Exhibition on the Burgemeester van Grunsvenplein in Heerlen. The queer photography exhibition is free to visit through May 9 and concludes the national tour with Heerlen, after Amsterdam and Groningen, among others.
During the Limburg Archaeology Day 2025 at the Limburgs Museum, the cup inscribed FLAC was voted the Limburg Top Find! This unique find, excavated in 2024 on Raadhuisplein in Heerlen, was found in an early Roman tomb near the intersection of two Roman roads.
On April 23, 2024, the municipality of Heerlen received word that as of 2030 the hospital in Heerlen will no longer have room for emergency rooms, ICUs and a birthing center. The municipality commissioned second-opinion studies. The results are known.
Want to learn more about local politics and how you can actively contribute yourself? Heerlen City Council is offering a unique opportunity to residents interested in politics! Starting in early 2025, the Heerlen City Council will start the Politically Active course.
Many decisions made by the government directly affect your neighborhood. What renovation does your neighbor want to have done to their house? May that tree in your street be cut down? Your municipality and other government organizations are required to announce this (digitally). We call these announcements 'Messages about your Neighborhood'.
