Eygelshoven ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛiɣəlsɦoːvə(n)] , Limburgish : Egelze [ˈeːɣəlzə] , Ripuarian : Ejelze [ˈeːjəlzə] ) is a village, since 1982 part of the town of Kerkrade , in the southeast of the Netherlands , close to the German and Belgian borders.
5-398: It has two former coal mines, Laura and Julia , which were named after the wives of the two owners. Both pits closed in 1974. The local soccer club is also named after the former coal mines. Eygelshoven has a small former church from the sixteenth century, which stands on top of a hill. In 1922, another church was built. Architect Alphons Boosten designed the new church. Plans to demolish
10-462: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alphons Boosten Alphons Boosten (20 January 1893, Maastricht – 2 January 1951) was a Dutch architect, who mostly practiced in the province of Limburg . His works include several large housing complexes and more than twenty churches. Early in his career Boosten shortly formed a partnership with Jos Ritzen [ nl ] , which resulted in several houses in expressionist style,
15-698: Is not the Ripuarian Kerkrade dialect , but a local East Limburgish variety called Egelzer plat . One of the biggest differences between the two is the pronunciation of the letter ⟨g⟩ ; in Eygelshoven, it is pronounced as a voiced velar fricative , as in southern Standard Dutch, whereas in Kerkrade it is pronounced as a palatal approximant (as in Colognian ), except after back vowels. This Dutch Limburg location article
20-937: The new church of Eygelshoven and the church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Maastricht. Especially due to the unconventional design of the latter, the architects were not granted assignments for further churches, and Ritzen moved to Antwerp in 1924. Boosten mostly designed houses until in 1929 his career as an architect of churches resumed. Boosten's career reached a height after the Second World War , in which many churches in Limburg had been destroyed and needed replacement. However, in 1951 Boosten died, and most of his post-war assignments were completed by other architects, including his son Theo Boosten . His son worked are 'foreman' on many of his projects, one such example
25-470: The old church were abandoned in favour of a new use as a chapel and because of its historical worth. A third Roman Catholic church was built in 1957, the Pastoor van Arskerk, which was torn down in 1994 when it became redundant. The old mining village of Eygelshoven was a separate municipality until 1982, when after more than eight centuries it was merged with Kerkrade. The dialect spoken in Eygelshoven
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