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Oost-Maarland is a place in the south east of the European country The Netherlands. There it is an administrative population centre in the Eijsden-Margraten municipality, which forms part of the Province of Limburg. In fact Oost-Maarland consists of two separate places with a different history. One is the village and former municipality of Oost, whereas the other is an in a distance of a few hundred metres separately to the southeast situated township called Maarland. Oost-Maarland is located some 3 km north of Eijsden, the biggest place in the municipality and south of Maastricht, the provincial capital. In the west it borders the Meuse river, in its northeast Rijckholt and in its east and southeast the Sint Geertruid part of the Savelsbos hillside forest, which is part of the "Margraten plateau". In between Maarland and this forest since a few decennia passes the E25 highway. In between Oost and Maarland passes the railroad Liege-Maastricht. The former station on this location however doesn't exist any more. Of the total number of about 960 inhabitants Oost has some more than 600 and Maarland some more than 300. ==History== Historically Oost and Maarland are two different places. Oost once was a seignory and a municipality of its own. (A castle and a (by now folkloristic) citizen soldiery still witness of this era). As such for centuries Oost was a "ban" of the Dalhem county. Since the Peace of Münster in 1648 it is part of the Northern Netherlands. Maarland once was a separately situated township of the signory of Breust, which in its turn belonged to the Liège St. Martin church. When in 1828 Breust and Oost became part of the Eijsden municipality, Maarland (which has no basic school, nor a church of its own) was added to Oost. Thus until January 1, 2011 Oost-Maarland was part of the Eijsden municipality; on that date this municipality merged with the neighbouring one of Margraten. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oost-Maarland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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