19 Facts About Maastricht

Maastricht is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands.

Maastricht is located on both sides of the Meuse, at the point where the Jeker joins it.

Maastricht is about 175 km south east of the capital Amsterdam and 65 km from Eindhoven; it is adjacent to the border with Belgium and is part of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, an international metropolis with a population of about 3.

Maastricht developed from a Roman settlement to a medieval religious centre.

Maastricht has 1677 national heritage buildings, the second highest number in the Netherlands, after Amsterdam.

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Maastricht is mentioned in ancient documents as [Ad] Treiectinsem [urbem] ab.

Place name Maastricht is an Old Dutch compound Masa- + Old Dutch *treiekt, itself borrowed from Gallo-Romance *TRAECTU cf.

Fragments of provincial Roman sculptures, as well as coins, jewellery, glass, pottery and other objects from Roman Maastricht are on display in the exhibition space of the city's public library .

Maastricht painters were praised by Wolfram von Eschenbach in his Parzival.

Important strategic location of Maastricht resulted in the construction of an impressive array of fortifications around the city during this period.

For twenty years Maastricht remained the capital of the French departement of Meuse-Inferieure.

Maastricht retained a distinctly non-Dutch appearance during much of the 19th century and it was not until the First World War that the city was forced to look northwards.

In recent years, Maastricht launched several campaigns against drug-dealing in an attempt to stop foreign buyers taking advantage of the liberal Dutch legislation and causing trouble in the downtown area.

Maastricht is a city of linguistic diversity, partly as a result of its location at the crossroads of multiple language areas and its international student population.

Maastricht is known in the Netherlands and beyond for its lively squares, narrow streets, and historic buildings.

Up until 1 July 2015 the mayor of Maastricht was Onno Hoes, a Liberal, the only male mayor in the country, who officially was married to a male person.

Maastricht's has served for the Dutch judicial system for many years in many different positions.

Maastricht is served by the nearby Maastricht Aachen Airport, in nearby Beek, and it is informally referred to by that name.

Maastricht has a river port and is connected by water with Belgium and the rest of the Netherlands through the river Meuse, the Juliana Canal, the Albert Canal and the Zuid-Willemsvaart.