Bokhoven

It is located about seven kilometres northwest of the city center, on the south bank of the river Maas.

In the fourteenth century Bokhoven Castle had been built in the village.

It became the center of the Lordship (later county) of Bokhoven, which was a loan of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

In 1800 it was sold to the Batavian Republic, a precursor state of the present Kingdom of the Netherlands in which Bokhoven became a municipality.

In earlier times a settlement of farmers and fishermen, the present population of the village, about three hundred people, consists mostly of middle class commuters.