Buiten Op

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Buiten Op is the name the inhabitants of Roermond gave to the original settlement of Villa Optima after the defensive walls were constructed and it was outside, Buiten in Dutch, the city.

The name Buiten op, or Boete op in Limburgish, is still used in Roermond.

Villa Optima was the Roman name for the municipality and city of Roermond in the southeastern Netherlands.

When Julius Caesar reached the location of Roermond he found the location so ideal that he called it "Villa Optima" , which translates into "ideal location".

Another name for Roermond given by the Romans is Ruramonde.

The original town of Roermond was in Roman times based around the area of the Roerquays. The bridge, the Steene Brök, is on the spot where the Celtic inhabitants of this region used to live. It is now a suburb of Roermond called Faubourg Saint Jacques (or Voorstad Sint Jacob in Dutch).

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