Mechelen-Bovelingen (French: Marlinne) is a village in the Belgian province Limburg and a deelgemeente (sub-municipality) of the municipality of Heers.

The former municipality Mechelen-Bovelingen consisted of the hamlets Mechelen, Bovelingen, and the now disappeared Pepingen.

Because of increasing linear settlement, the hamlets of Mechelen and Bovelingen are no longer recognizable as separate entities.

Mechelen-Bovelingen is on the plateau of Hesbaye, which locally has a height of 70 to 120 m. The village is in the valley of the small Herk (river), which flows through it towards the north.

Remnants found were its foundations, pottery fragments and coins, the most recent from Marcus Aurelius (161-180).

The Roman road from Tongeren over Heers to Gembloers crossed the surface of the former municipality.

The local branch of the family de Borchgrave d'Altena held on to these four lordships till the end of the Ancien Régime.

[1] From 1872 till 1956 a râperie (suikerbietenmaalderij) of the Wanze Sugar Factory was operational in the village.

[2] [1] The village remained essentially rural with some large farms that still specialize in the culture of sugar beet.