Landgraaf
# Landgraaf

Landgraaf (Dutch: (listen); Limburgish: Lankgraaf) is a municipality in southeastern Limburg, Netherlands, forming part of the Parkstad Limburg agglomeration. Snow World is the largest indoor ski piste in Europe.

## Population centres

* Nieuwenhagen
* Schaesberg
* Ubach over Worms

### Topography

Dutch topographic map of the municipality of Landgraaf, June 2015

## Special information

A pop music festival called Pinkpop is held annually on the Pentecost weekend in Schaesberg, a town in Landgraaf.

Landgraaf is home to the largest indoor ski piste in Europe, called Snow World.

## Notable natives

* Johan Kremers (born 1933 in Nieuwenhagen) a Queen's Commissioner of Limburg from 1977 to 1990
* Harry Kempen (1937 in Nieuwenhagen – 2000) a cultural psychologist and academic
* Joep Lange (1954 in Nieuwenhagen – 2014) a Dutch clinical researcher in HIV therapy, International AIDS Society from 2002 to 2004
* Annemarie Mol (born 1958 in Schaesberg) a Dutch ethnographer, philosopher and academic
* Henk Blezer (born 1961 in Schaesberg) a Dutch Tibetologist, Indologist, and scholar of Buddhist studies
* Sharon Walraven (born 1970 in Schaesberg) a Dutch wheelchair tennis player, silver medallist at the 2000 Paralympics and gold medallist at the 2008 Paralympics
* Carach Angren (formed 2003 in Landgraaf) is a symphonic black metal band
