Maastricht, The Netherlands, real-life CJ by Uumke

[Uumke 0]

Maastricht, Capital of Limburg


Hello everyone!

This is going to be my first attempt to build a real-life city.
I'm still downloading a lot of buildings, and I also need some batters who are prepared to bat some extraordinary buildings of the city. The town is my (almost) home town.
Here some facts and pictures.

Maastricht.
This town is the Capital of Limburg, the most southern province of the Netherlands. It is also the most south city of the Netherlands. 
Around the year 0, the Romans built a bridge across the Maas river (la Meuse). After the collapse of this bridge,in the 13th century, it was replaced by the current st. Servaasbrug.
Nowadays , Maastricht is a town with around 120.000 inhabitants, that's famous for it's "Maastricht treaty" , where plans of the Euro-currency were written down and signed. A lot of people also now it for it's TEFAF: the European fine arts fair.
It's also a student city: It has an University, a conservatory, a theater academy and an arts-academy.
It  has a lot of squares too. Vrijthof is the most well known, where we can find the St. Johns church and the St. Servaaskerk, named after the sacred person that died in the town.
Nowadays, there are a lot of modern buildings like the Bonnefanten museum, the Colonel and Leeuwenborgh college.
It has a lot of traffic problems to: the A2 had a lot of tailback problems and the bridges are mostly congested to.
The town is sometimes called "Petit Paris" as it looks very bourgundian and the way of living is also very bourgundian.
Well enough.

Some pictures:
the Market, with the city hall ( I need batters)


Vrijthof:


City walls:


The station:


The colonel:


The bridge:

Bonnefantenmuseumneed batters!!



And:


Now I"m going to download a lot, to show you some of my work later!

Thanks for watching,

take care,

Justin A.K.A. Uumke

[E.J.C 9]

cool to see another european recreation

wish you good luck with it, 1 tip; don't give up!!

and I will be following this closely....

[homeandaway 1]

cool start my good friend - im eager to see how you set things up!

take care and PM if you need anything my friend

~Alex~

[jayo 44]

Nice work man!

Get the bridge height mod from the mods and downloads section.

[Voulpiotis 4]

Looks very interesting!

[Mike the Mayor 51]

This is looking great, and I agree with E.J.C., I like to see European recreations. Good luck with this, my friend.

[homeandaway 1]

im always looking forwards to seeing more of this interesting CJ! - take care my good freind

~Alex~

[patriots_1228 51]

looks good!

[Schulmanator 5,787]

This sounds like a cool city to do. Eager to see it develop.

[Cjah 15]

Very very good start!

I wonder whats next?!

[Sunil 3]

Very niice start

My brother attends UM

So I know a bit about the city....

BTW I rememeber that tunnel

[granto93 4]

cool start!

[waldner 0]

Looking forward for more!

[Uumke 0]

Thank you for all your interest!

And that will be rewarded with five pictures of my progress; Parisian buildings, pedestrian streets etc. (tonight, at 9 p.m +1 GMT)
I'm still downloading a lot of custom items.
I also hope there are some batters who are prepared to build some special buildings, like the City hall, the ST. Servaaskerk, Bonnefantenmuseum etc.
Stay tuned!
And as the "Maastrichtenaren" say: Mè menne jong!

Replies:
E.J.C: I have a lot of respect for you, how you can build al those cities so exactly! Thanks for the tip!

Homeandaway: Thank you Alex, for your support! Also a lot of respect for you, wtih your real-life cities, take care my friend!

Jayo: Thank you! But I don't use the Bridge height mod, as the bridges are that high to in real life.

Voulpiotis: thank you! Stay tuned my friend!

Mike the mayor: thank you for your interest! Stay tuned, as you like European creations! I'll do my best!

Patriots_1228: thank you very much, stay tuned!

Schulmanator: thank you! Can't wait to see the next update of Schulmania!

Cjah: Thank you! Stay tuned, tonight, there will be an update!

Sunil: aah great your brother attends UM! I'm going to do conservatory first (if i pass the exam) and then I'm going to the UM to. The tunnel you see is the Maasboulevardtunnel. There are quite some water problems there.....thank you for your interest!

Granto93: Thank you! Stay tuned!

Waldner: Thanks for the nice comment, tonight, 9 p.m (1+ GMT)


So...tonight! the first update of Maastricht, capital of Limburg.


And who is interested, I'm looking for batters!

Thanks for the attention and stay tuned!

Blief loere! (maastrichts for: stay looking)

[homeandaway 1]

always looking forwards to hearing and seeing more of you my friend - i really like you!.

take care and looking forwards for more as always my friend

~alex~

[Uumke 0]

Update one: Binnenstad (den Stadt(maastrichts), city  centre)

Hello everyone!
This is the first update of Maastricht!
I've built a lot of pedestrian roads of cobble stones, with a lot of plobable buildings next to it!
As the old city is car-free (most parts) I did that to.
I'm still waiting to downlad florapack Vol3 , in order to build walls.
I also noticed already, that the city is not to scale. It's far to big actually. an area above Wyck is going to be twice as large as normal. But as it is a beautiful town, that no problem
A time ago, there was a poll what the best city centre was of the netherlands. Maastricht turned out 1st, leaving cities like Amsterdam, the Hague, Rotterdam, Utrecht and Leiden on lower places.
Let's start with the pictures:

De grote staat, the 2nd most expensive shopping street in the Netherlandswhen it comes to rent per square meter)


Kleine staat. the 3rd most expensive shopping street in the netherlands (when It comes to rent per square meter):


Kleine staat and the Kesselskade ( still waiting for the florapack, in order to build seawalls):


The Market, I replaced all typical maastricht-building with some standard buildings, like the city hall (any Batters interested?):


And a statue of the major in the Jodenstraat, behind a red-light district building.


And some recent pics, of this evening:
The city centre, with more and more pedestrian streets:


An overview, you can see it isn't exactly to scale:



That was that, see you next time!

Hope you liked it!

Hou dich good, en geneet vaan t leve!

Take care,

Justin

[tommiej 0]

very nice start justin!! they say you haven't experienced carnaval until you went to carnaval in Maastricht (at least, that what they say here in Tilburg) is it true?

looking forward for more!

[Uumke 0]

yep tommiej that's true.

The big difference, is the music. you hear far more local music, in the local language. MY expieriences in the north, is that there was only trance-music, and a fake-carnival-songs,

Another big difference is the cosyness (gezelligheid); when you talk to someone, you'll often get a beer or a handshake, just because you talked to him like a minute or something. And when someone talks to you, you give him a beer to, or a handshaking. But Tilburg isn't that fake- Brabant, Limburg and Zeeland ( a bit), are real carnival provinces.

But nothing can beat the "ambience" in Maastricht. You should come over . in Heerlen and Valkenburg are often fights, thats just nothing!

Take care tommiej

[Fallon144 1]

Ah lovely mate, havent been to Maastricht for so long! were you born and bred there?

Im from Weesp,Noord-Holland

keep up the amazing work mate

[Mike the Mayor 51]

Great stuff, my friend. I love this cj!

[jacqulina 162]

wow your doing a great job with building and planning my friend and wonderfull pics too

[Mikeaut1 261]

This is great planning! I think this is going to shape up to be a great city journal, it's very good!

[granto93 4]

I love it so far. I would never be able to create a european city so realistic. i will stay tuned to see more

[Uumke 0]

nice to see you all like it

[E.J.C 9]

"how you can I build al those cities so exactly?"

-> Patience & Google Earth.. a master-combination

;-)

E

[homeandaway 1]

wow! - great start my friend! - do you think you are okay with it? - do you think it what you wanted it to be?.

take care and im always looking forwards to seeing more of your work my friend!

~alex~

[koekie01 3]

Good start! Good luck with all that hard work. I'll be following this.

Kom op, jij hebt er de kracht wel voor! (Dutch)

Koekie

[Schulmanator 5,787]

This is coming along very well thus far!

[Uumke 0]

Replies and Teasers!

Hello everyone!

thanks for all your interest!

I've got one question: where can I find the night lightning patch? My plopped buildings don't give any light at night!
But now REPLIES!

Tommiej: thanks my fellow dutchman!

Fallon144: great you've been to maastricht thank you! Fellow dutchie

Mike the Mayor: thank you for your interest my friend!

Jacqulina: thank you my friend!

Mikeaut1: thank you for your optimism! I can use that very well!

granto93: everybody can do this I think, maybe I've got the feeling a bit as this is my (almost) hometown. Thanks for your comment my friend!

E.J.C : you're right google earth is my friend! Thank you for your interest

Homeandaway: Well alex, it's what I want! a bit to big and out of scale sometimes...It's quite hard as simcity is pro-grid and anti-diagonal! But, thanks for the support my friend! Your Cj's are coming along very well !

Koekie01: thank you my friend! ( ik heb er de kracht niet meer voor) great to see so many dutchmans around here!

Schulmanator: thank you for your support, my friend!


And, as reward for your interest: 4 teaser pics

Let's go:

'T Bassin: (still waiting for the florapackvol3 for the seawalls)


Graanmarkt: (lighting patch??)


Mosa ( the area where to mosa factory is, it used to produce tiles, cups, plates etc. Ceramic. That's why an modern area of maastricht is called "Céramique". I'm going to replace this with one big complex!)


And a part of Wyck:



Thank you! and stay tuned!

[Uumke 0]

P.S. did you know Maastricht is the oldest city of the Netherlands? with more than 2000 years old!