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e to police budget cuts 51 transport edit a2 motorway and koning willem alexandertunnel maastricht main railway station arriva bus at boschstraat maastricht aachen airport by bike edit maastricht is bikeable people biking are able to cross the river using every bridge in the city by car edit maastricht is served by the a2 and a79 motorways the city can be reached from brussels and cologne in approximately one hour and from amsterdam in about two and a half hours the a2 motorway runs through maastricht in a double decked tunnel before 2016 the a2 motorway ran through the city heavily congested it caused air pollution in the urban area construction of a two level tunnel designed to solve these problems started in 2011 and was opened in stages by december 2016 52 in spite of several large underground car parks parking in the city centre forms a major problem during weekends and bank holidays because of the large numbers of visitors parking fees are deliberately high to encourage visitors to use public transport or park and ride facilities away from the centre by train edit maastricht is served by three rail operators all of which call at the main maastricht railway station near the centre and two of which call at the smaller maastricht randwyck near the business and university district only arriva also calls at maastricht noord which opened in 2013 intercity trains northwards to amsterdam eindhoven den bosch and utrecht are operated by dutch railways the line to heerlen valkenburg and kerkrade is operated by arriva the national railway company of belgium runs south to liège in belgium the westbound railway to hasselt belgium closed in 1954 the former railway to aachen was closed down in the 1980s however aachen can still be reached via heerlen by bus edit regular bus lines connect the city centre outer areas business districts and railway stations the regional arriva bus network extends to most parts of south limburg and aachen germany regional buses by de lijn connect maastricht with hasselt tongeren and maasmechelen and one bus connects maastricht with liège operated by tec flixbus provides intercity bus services from maastricht to many european destinations by air edit maastricht is served by the nearby maastricht aachen airport iata mst icao ehbk in nearby beek and it is informally referred to by that name the airport is located about 10 kilometres 6 miles north of the city centre the airport is primarily served by low cost airline wizz air 53 the nearest airports are both located in nearby germany which are düsseldorf airport located 112 km 70 mi north east and cologne bonn airport located 117 km 73 mi east of maastricht however residents in the city also use amsterdam schiphol airport as an international hub the airport is located 217 km 135 mi north west of the city maastricht has an area control centre for air traffic 24 500 feet 7 500 m in altitude and above over benelux and northwest germany 54 by boat edit maastricht has a river port beatrixhaven 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 although there are no regular boat connections to other cities various organized boat trips for tourists connect maastricht with belgium cities such as liège distances to other cities edit these distances are as the crow flies and so do not represent actual overland distances liège 25 5 km 15 8 mi south aachen 31 0 km 19 3 mi east eindhoven 66 8 km 41 5 mi north west düsseldorf 86 2 km 53 6 mi north east cologne 89 6 km 55 7 mi east brussels 95 1 km 59 1 mi west antwerp 97 8 km 60 8 mi north west bonn 99 9 km 62 1 mi south east charleroi 102 1 km 63 4 mi south west mons 130 8 km 81 3 mi south west luxembourg city 141 4 km 87 9 mi south ghent 141 5 km 87 9 mi west utrecht 142 4 km 88 5 mi north west rotterdam 144 5 km 89 8 mi north west amsterdam 175 1 km 108 8 mi north west lille 186 3 km 115 8 mi west frankfurt am main 228 8 km 142 2 mi south east groningen 269 6 km 167 5 mi north strasbourg 288 7 km 179 4 mi south east paris 325 6 km 202 3 mi south west hannover 325 7 km 202 4 mi north east stuttgart 341 3 km 212 1 mi south east basel 390 2 km 242 5 mi south east london 411 5 km 255 7 mi north west zürich 438 7 km 272 6 mi south east education edit maastricht university campus randwyck students at work at um law school hotel management school at bethlehem castle secondary education edit bernard lievegoedschool anthroposophical education bonnefantencollege porta mosana college sint maartenscollege united world college maastricht tertiary education edit maastricht university dutch universiteit maastricht or um including university college maastricht maastricht school of management merged with um in 2022 zuyd university of applied sciences dutch hogeschool zuyd also has departments in sittard and heerlen including academy for dramatic arts maastricht dutch toneelacademie maastricht school of fine arts maastricht dutch academie beeldende kunsten maastricht maastricht academy of music dutch conservatorium maastricht academy of architecture faculty of international business and communication maastricht hotel management school teikyo university maastricht campus closed in 2007 other edit jan van eyck academie post academic art institute berlitz language school maastricht talenacademie nederland international relations edit see also list of twin towns and sister cities in the netherlands twin towns edit maastricht is twinned with chengdu china since 2012 el rama nicaragua koblenz germany liège belgium notable people edit see also category people from maastricht peter debye tom dumoulin jan pieter minckeleers henrietta d oultremont andré rieu victor de stuers born in maastricht edit jean eugène charles alberti 1777 after 1843 painter henri arends 1921 1993 conductor doris baaten born 1956 voice actress gerard bergholtz born 1939 footballer mieke de boer born 1980 female darts player alphons boosten 1893 1951 architect theo bovens born 1959 politician joseph bruyère born 1948 belgian cyclist jeu van bun 1918 2002 footballer gerard caris 1925 2025 sculptor and artist jean baptiste coclers 1696 1772 painter louis bernard coclers 1740 1817 painter wilhelm rené de l homme de courbière 1733 1811 prussian field marshal peter debye 1884 1966 nobel prize winning chemist tom dumoulin born 1990 cyclist giro d italia winner huub felix 1895 1967 football player robin frijns born 1991 racing driver hendrick fromantiou 1633 4 after 1693 still life painter joop haex 1911 2002 politician andré henri constant van hasselt 1806 1874 french writing poet hubert hermans born 1937 psychologist and creator of dialogical self theory pieter van den hoogenband born 1978 swimmer and a triple olympic champion ben hoogstede 1888 1962 football player pierre kemp 1886 1967 poet sjeng kerbusch 1947 1991 behavior geneticist mathieu kessels 1784 1836 sculptor lambert of maastricht c 636 c 705 bishop saint marie louise linssen vaessen 1928 1993 freestyle swimmer eric van der luer born 1965 footballer football manager pierre lyonnet 1708 1789 naturalist cryptographer engraver félix de mérode 1791 1857 politician writer david de meyne 1569 1620 painter and cartographer andreas victor michiels 1797 1849 military and administrative officer in the dutch east indies jan pieter minckeleers 1748 1824 scientist and inventor of coal gas lighting bram moszkowicz born 1960 ex barrister benny neyman 1951 2008 singer of popular songs tom nijssen born 1964 tennis player jacques ogg born 1948 harpsichordist henrietta d oultremont 1792 1864 second wife of william i of the netherlands jan peumans born 1951 belgian politician guido pieters born 1948 film director dick raaymakers 1930 2013 composer theater maker prince rajcomar born 1985 football player louis regout 1861 1915 politician andré rieu born 1949 violinist conductor and composer fred rompelberg born 1945 cyclist former world record holder louis rutten 1884 1946 dutch geologist henri sarolea 1844 1900 railway entrepreneur and contractor mathieu segers 1976 2023 historian bryan smeets born 1992 football player hubert soudant born 1946 conductor victor de stuers 1843 1916 politician monument conservationist jac p thijsse 1865 1945 botanist conservationist germaine thyssens valentin 1902 1987 pianist ad van tiggelen born 1958 fantasy writer adrian stone frans timmermans born 1961 politician johann friedrich august tischbein 1750 1812 portrait painter maxime verhagen born 1956 politician carel de vogelaer 1653 1695 painter hubert vos 1855 1935 painter ad wijnands born 1959 cyclist tour de france stage winner jeroen willems 1962 2012 actor singer henri winkelman 1876 1952 general danny wintjens born 1983 football goalkeeper boudewijn zenden born 1976 football player kim zwarts born 1955 photographer residing in maastricht edit saint servatius jo bonfrère born 1946 football player willy brokamp born 1946 football player jeroen brouwers 1940 2022 writer journalist gondulph of maastricht c 524 c 607 bishop saint theo hiddema born 1944 lawyer willem hofhuizen 1915 1986 painter theodoor van loon c 1581 1649 painter monulph of maastricht 6th century bishop saint max moszkowicz 1926 2022 lawyer servatius of maastricht 4th century 384 bishop saint jan van steffeswert 15th 16th century sculptor wood carver aert van tricht 15th 16th century metal caster henric van veldeke 12th century poet hagiographer local anthem edit in 2002 the municipal government officially adopted a local anthem limburgish maastrichtian variant mestreechs volksleed dutch maastrichts volkslied composed of lyrics in maastrichtian written by alfons olterdissen the theme was originally composed by his brother guus olterdissen though the theme is similar to the theme pe al nostru steag e scris unire of the romanian composer ciprian porumbescu 1853 1883 it is unknown if the olterdissen brothers were aware of the romanian piece 55 maastrichtian municipal anthem mestreechs volksleed adopted 2002 written 1910 1 hoera vivat mestreech jao diech höbs us aon t hart gelege mestreech door alle ieuwe heer veer bleve diech altied genege en deilde dreufheid en plezeer veer huurde nao dien aw histories te peerd op grampeer ziene sjoet ues ouge blónke bij dien glories of perelde bij diene noet 2 en dee vaan diech t sjoens wèlt prijze in taol die al wie zinge klink dat dee op nui mestreechter wijze zien aajd mestreech mèt us bezingk me zong vaan diech ten alle tije eus mojers zonge bij de weeg en voolte veer us rech tevreie daan zong ze e leedsje vaan mestreech 3 doe blom vaan nederlands landouwe gegreujd op t graaf vaan sintervaos bis weerdig dobbel te besjouwe gespiegeld in de blanke maos n staar de witste oet de klaore besjijnt diech mèt häör straole zach en um diech zuver te bewaore nen ingel hèlt bij diech de wach 4 wie dèks woorste neet priesgegeve mèh heels dien kroen toch opgeriech en ongeknak bis te gebleve door euze band vaan trouw aon diech daorum de hand us tòwgestoke t oug geriech op t stareleech en weur dat oug daan ins gebroke daan beidt veur us het aajd mestreech gallery edit the meuse saint servatius bridge dinghuis townhall mosae forum saint servatius basilica onze lieve vrouweplein basilica of our lady lang grachtje helpoort hell s gate pater vink tower bastion haet ende nijt stadspark jeker river bassin harbour saint lambert church train station wyck stationsplein wyck hoeg brögk charles eyckpark céramique public library céramique fortress sint pieter view from slavante castle ruin lichtenberg huis de torentjes enci quarry château neercanne view on cannerberg vrijthof square early morning see also edit jewish inhabitants of maastricht maastricht treaty treaty of maastricht 1843 the maastrichtian age which marks the end of the cretaceous period and mesozoic era of geological time references edit notes mrs annemarie penn te strake mr annemarie penn te strake in dutch gemeente maastricht archived 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