Demonym(s) Brunssumer Postcode 6440–6446 Area 17.29 km² Team SV Limburgia | Elevation 81 m (266 ft) Time zone CET (UTC+1) Website www.brunssum.nl Local time Sunday 1:33 AM Area code 045 | |
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Weather 7°C, Wind SW at 21 km/h, 87% Humidity | ||
Brunssum ( [ˈbrɵnsəm]; Limburgish: Broensem) is a municipality and a town in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands.
Contents
- Map of Brunssum Netherlands
- Population centres
- NATO headquarters
- Nature
- Sports
- People from Brunssum
- References
Map of Brunssum, Netherlands
Brunssum was a center of coal mining until 1973.
The municipality of Brunssum has 28,840 residents as of 2014.
Population centres
NATO headquarters
Brunssum is the current home of Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum (JFC Brunssum), a NATO headquarters one level below SHAPE in the integrated military command structure. The headquarters was known as Headquarters, Allied Forces Central Europe (HQ AFCENT) from its inception in Fontainebleau, France and relocation to Brunssum in 1967. The name was changed to Regional Headquarters, Allied Forces Northern Europe (RHQ AFNORTH) when a restructuring in 2000 led to the closing of HQ AFNORTH in Kolsås, Norway. The current title was adopted in 2004 to add flexibility to the military command structure by removing regional restrictions. The main base area, Hendrik Camp, was built on a former coal mine called Hendrik Mine.
Brunssum is also the home of the AFNORTH International School, located just outside Hendrik Camp. AFNORTH International School is a K-12 school that mainly provides service to American, British, Canadian, and German dependents of military personnel assigned to JFC Brunssum, the US Army base in Schinnen, and NATO Air Base in Geilenkirchen, Germany; as well as the former Soesterberg Air Base, Netherlands.
Nature
The Brunssummerheide is a sloping nature landscape with many trails for hiking and running. It is bisected by a brook called Roode Beek (Red Brook). The Brunssumerheide is a protected nature preserve.
Sports
One of the local football teams is BSV Limburgia, formerly known as SV Limburgia, which competes at an amateur level. As SV Limburgia, the club competed in the Eredivisie (Honorary Division) at various times and finished first in 1950. Upon the introduction of professional football in the Netherlands in 1954, SV Limburgia had little success and was relegated to the lowest level of Dutch football, Tweede Divisie (Second Division).
The annual Parelloop ten kilometer road running race is held in Brunssum. Micah Kogo from Kenya won the race in 2009, breaking the world record for that distance.