Editing Heerlen (section)

==Architecture==
[[File:Glaspaleis front-east.jpg|thumb|left|Glaspaleis]]
The city's best-known architect is [[Frits Peutz]]. His legacy consists of at least 10 landmark buildings in Heerlen. In 1935 Heerlen's most famous landmark building, the [[Glaspaleis]], was built next to the medieval church in the centre of the then modest town. It was commissioned by the merchant Peter [[Schunck]] and it was quite an extraordinary step for this conservative businessman to ask the young Heerlen-based architect Peutz to design the new Schunck department store. It is one of the most outstanding examples of early [[Modernism]] in The Netherlands but it was only recognized as such at a fairly late stage (after it had been badly maimed). In the 1990s it was added to a prestigious list of the world's ''1000 most important buildings of the 20th century'' created by the [[International Union of Architects]] (only 13 buildings in the Netherlands are on that list). It encouraged the city administrators to buy the dilapidated building and make plans for its renovation. The renovation has now been completed and it now houses several of the city's cultural institutions, including a museum of modern art. The renovated Glaspaleis has become a symbol of the revived Heerlen after the closing of the coalmines.

Although many interesting buildings were demolished around 1900, some older buildings still exist in the centre of Heerlen, for instance, a [[Romanesque style]] 12th-century church ([[Pancratiuskerk]]), and a former prison tower from around the same period ([[Schelmentoren]]).

Other buildings worth mentioning are a [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]] chapel ([[Grafkapel de Loë]] built in 1848, the only remaining Neoclassical building in Heerlen), and a former mansion annex pharmacy, left in almost the same state as after its 1801–1828 expansion ([[Huis de Luijff]]).

In other parts of Heerlen, especially near the numerous small rivers around Heerlen, many older buildings can be found, noticeably a couple of watermills (like the [[Weltermolen]] (14th century), [[Eikendermolen]] (15th century), [[Oliemolen]] (16th century), and [[Schandelermolen]] (17th century)), some [[castle]]s (for instance [[Hoensbroek Castle]] oldest part 1380, [[Ter Worm Castle|Kasteel Terworm]] 15th century) and old farms ([[Geleenhof]] (dating back to Roman days), [[Benzeraderhof]] (13th century), [[Hoeve Den Driesch]] (14th century), [[Overste Douvenrade]] (largely destroyed and rebuilt in 1779) and [[Hoeve de Bek]] (1796)).

===Architects with significant work===
Here follows a list of architects who have built important landmarks in Heerlen, and those landmarks.

* [[A van Beers]]: [[Huize Op de Berg]] (1897)
* [[Johan Kayser]], (1842, [[Harlingen, Netherlands|Harlingen]] – 1917): Chapel Savelberg Convent (1878–1879, style: [[Neo-Gothic]])
* [[Jan Stuyt]] (1868–1934)): [[Ambachtsschool (Heerlen)|Ambachtsschool]] (1913, style: [[Hollands Classicisme]]<ref name="autogenerated1">[http://www.heerlen.nl/smartsite.dws?id=2645 Beschrijving route] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926235832/http://www.heerlen.nl/smartsite.dws?id=2645 |date=26 September 2007 }}</ref>)
* [[J. Pauw]]: Former library (1917, style: [[Amsterdam School]])<ref name="autogenerated1" />
* [[Dirk Roosenburg]] (1887–1962): Former office Oranje Nassau mine (1928, style: [[International style (architecture)|International style]])
* [[Dirk Brouwer (Architect)|Dirk Brouwer]] (3 November 1899 – 1941): Former [[HEMA (store)|HEMA]] building (1939, style: International style)
* [[Frits Peutz]] (7 April 1896 – 24 October 1974): [[Glaspaleis]] (1933, style: International style), [[Monseigneur Schrijnen Retreat House]] (1932), townhall (1940), municipal theatre
* [[Gerrit Rietveld]], ([[Utrecht (city)|Utrecht]] 24 June 1888- Utrecht 26 June 1964): house on Zandweg (1961–1964)
* [[Jo Coenen]] (born 1949 in Heerlen-Hoensbroek): Library and entrance Stadsgalerij (1983, 1989)