After the Molenbeek disappeared through a sewer pipe underground with the construction of the shopping area, the hidden history of this stream has come as a surprise to many.
At the Stenen Sluis in the city park of Sittard you can still see where the Molenbeek splits off from the Geleenbeek and starts its own course.
The name says it all: since the brook was dug at the latest in the twelfth century, it set the giant wheels of several mills turning, starting with the flour mill on Molenbeekstraat, built around 1344.
Location
From the Tempelplein car park in Sittard, you enter the narrow street of the Gruisstraat. Follow this until you reach the white building Den Tegel after about 50 meters. You are now behind the shopping street. Walk and look towards the main shopping street. This is where the Archeo location/tile of corten steel is located.
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