Salesianen Don Bosco

In 1928, the Bishop of Roermond entrusted the rectory established in Lauradorp to the Salesians. Lauradorp, now a residential area in the municipality of Landgraaf, was built in the 1920s as a new residential area for the miners of the Laura and Julia coal mines. In addition to pastoral care, the Salesians also provided youth work in Lauradorp. The mining company Laura en Vereeniging, in collaboration with the municipality of Ubach over Worms, commissioned the construction of a building on Maastrichterlaan in Lauradorp. The Salesians moved into the building in 1929 and also briefly housed Salesian seminarians from Belgium. Although the Salesians also used the building as a boarding school for a time, it was intended from the outset, at least as far as the ground floor was concerned, to serve as an oratory for the benefit of open youth work. The upper floor of the building was converted into a temporary church. To replace this temporary church, the newly built church in Lauradorp on what is now Salesianenstraat, dedicated to St. Therese of Lisieux, was inaugurated in 1934. During the early years of World War II, the house in Lauradorp experienced a large influx of students from Belgium and Germany. By the end of 1943, most of them were housed in "Huize Don Rua" in Ugchelen. When their house in Lauradorp was requisitioned by the Americans in November 1944, the Salesians found temporary housing in three houses on Lindestraat in Lauradorp. The ever-increasing veneration of Don Bosco led the church council in 1948 to dedicate the church on Salesianenstraat to him as a second patron saint. In 1970, the rectory entrusted to the Salesians in Lauradorp was elevated to a parish, which they returned to the diocese in 1993 when they ended their work in Lauradorp and their house was sold to a project developer.
I don't think it's being used at all and is slowly being left to nature, given the vegetation around the building

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