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

[5] Spaubeek is a village which developed in the Middle Ages along the northern bank of Geleenbeek.

The U-shaped residential area surrounded by a moat with an attached L-shaped office building.

[6] Between 1 November 1875 and c. 1880, there was an early station of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ for medical aid to the population.

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.