title: Landgraaf
text: # 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
  