Who is she?

The Lady of Voerendaal.

Anyone visiting Voerendaal station cannot ignore it. You can see her from afar; the impressive female head, a work of art by the Lady of Voerendaal. It was found during the construction of a lime kiln in 1917 and was later processed into a large work of art. But who was this lady and what role did she play in Roman times? That is and remains a mystery and makes her a mysterious appearance.

While people used to see her as a goddess, we now think of a woman for whom a funerary monument was erected near Villa Voerendaal and close to Via Belgica. She had herself portrayed in the style of Sabina, the wife of Emperor Hadrian with exactly the same haircut.


The openwork silhouette of the Lady of Voerendaal is 3.30 meters high, approximately 5 meters and made of Nivelder sandstone. Because of, among other things, her 'imperial' hairstyle, we place her somewhere between 125-150 AD. But who exactly was she? It remains an unsolved mystery.