Spaubeek is located in the municipality of Beek, about 3 km south of the town of Geleen.

[2] The history of Spaubeek was closely connected to that of Jansgeleen Castle.

It got its name Heer Jansgelene after one of the former owners, Lord Jan Rode van Opsinnich in the 15th century, but was later erroneously renamed as Sint Jansgeleen after St. John the Baptist.

The castle, already in a bad shape at the end of the 19th century, and further damaged by the mine galleries of the nearby big Maurits mine at Geleen in the 1920s, was finally demolished in the 1930s.

[3] Media related to Jansgeleen Castle at Wikimedia Commons