Visé (; nl, Wezet, ; wa, Vizé) is a
city
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and
municipality
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of
Wallonia
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, located on the river
Meuse
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in the
province of Liège,
Belgium
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.
The municipality consists of the following
districts:
Argenteau,
Cheratte,
Lanaye,
Lixhe,
Richelle, and Visé.
In the north-east (on the eastern bank of the Meuse) the area of the municipality extends up to the village of
Moelingen in the
Limburgian
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
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of
Voeren
Voeren (; ) is a Flemish Dutch-speaking municipality with facilities for the French-speaking minority, located in the Belgian province of Limburg. Bordering the Netherlands to the north and the Wallonia region's Liège Province () to ...
, while in the north-west (on the western bank of the Meuse) it extends up to the border between Belgium and the
Netherlands
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(on the other side of which the
Dutch municipality of
Maastricht is situated).
The city of Visé is located in a distance of some 20 km (12,4 miles) north eastern of Belgian
Liège city and of some 15 km (9,3 miles) southern of the most southern
Dutch city of
Maastricht.
In addition to the Meuse, the
Albert Canal also passes through this town.
History
The Germans entered Belgium on 4 August 1914, and entered Visé that day as part of the opening movements of the
Battle of Liège. A small group of Belgian
gendarmes opposed the advancing Germans and two of their number, Auguste Bouko and Jean-Pierre Thill, were killed in the action becoming the first Belgian casualties of
World War I
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.
On 7 August, in the Lixhe section of the town, the German 90th Infantry Regiment killed eleven civilians and destroyed eleven houses.
The Lixhe part of the town was also the site of one of Belgium's ninety eastern-frontier advanced-warning posts (''postes d'alerte de la frontière est''), aimed at preventing a German invasion in 1939 – its number was "PA 0". The
coal mine of Hasard de Cheratte
The Coal mine of Hasard de Cheratte (or Cheratte 10) was the main colliery of the Société anonyme des Charbonnages du Hasard, and had four shafts. It is located in Cheratte, a section of the Belgian town of Visé in Liège province in Wallonia. ...
was dug in Cheratte and exploited between 1850 and 1977.
Gallery
File:Visé - Hôtel de Ville 04.JPG, Visé town hall
File:Vise-Wezet.jpg, City view from the west bank of the Meuse
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Image:Visé, centre culturel foto3 2010-07-11 11.39.JPG, Cultural centre in Visé
File:Visé, église Saint Martin 62108-CLT-0002-01 foto8 2014-10-19 12.24.jpg, Church (Église Saint Martin) in Visé
File:62108-CLT-0005-01 Kasteel Saroléa Cheratte.jpg, Saroléa castle at Cheratte
File:Cheratte-Hauteurs, watertoren in straatzicht foto4 2014-10-19 13.00.jpg, Cheratte-Hauteurs: watertower
File:Lanaye, zicht op het stadsdeel vanaf Eijsden foto2 2017-03-25 11.16.jpg, View to the Lanaye from Eijsden
File:Canal Albert Lanaye-30aug2008.jpg, Albert Canal at Lanaye
See also
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List of protected heritage sites in Visé
This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Visé. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage.
See also
* List of protected heritage sites in Liège (provin ...
References
External links
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Cities in Wallonia
Belgium–Netherlands border crossings
Municipalities of Liège Province