Schaesberg

Schaesberg (Limburgish: D'r Sjeet) is a town in the municipality of Landgraaf in the Dutch province of Limburg.

County of Schaesberg Grafschaft Schaesberg (de) Graafschap D'r Sjeet (li) Graafschap Schaesberg (nl)
before 1570 – before 1945
Status	State of the Holy Roman Empire
Capital	Schaesberg
Government	Principality
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	Unknown
• Kasteel Schaesberg* built	1570
• Occupied by France	1794–1815
• Property confiscated by     the Dutch state after World War II	September 1944
• Disestablished	Unknown
* See articles on Dutch and German Wikipedias

Church of Saints Peter and Paul

Schaesberg was a separate municipality until 1982, when it merged with Nieuwenhagen and Ubach over Worms to form the new municipality Landgraaf.[1]

References

1. Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten, KNAW, 2011.

External links

• J. Kuyper, Gemeente Atlas van Nederland, 1865-1870, "Schaesberg". Map of the former municipality, around 1868.