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Kelmis
Kelmis (; , ) is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality located in the Belgium, Belgian province of Liège (province), Liège, named for the historical deposits of Calamine (mineral), calamine (zinc ore) nearby. , the population was 10,881; the area is , and the population density is . The municipality comprises the following deelgemeente, sub-municipalities: Kelmis proper, Hergenrath, and Neu-Moresnet. The territory around the Vieille Montagne zinc mine in Kelmis was Neutral Moresnet, a neutral condominium (international law), condominium of United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Netherlands and Prussia (later Belgium and German Empire, Germany) from 1816 to 1919, with the Mayor of Kelmis nominated by two commissioners from the neighbouring countries. Although there were attempts by locals to make it evolve into a fully independent microstate, all of them were thwarted, and it remained under double sovereignty and neutrality until its eventual annexation by Belgium after the Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Protected Heritage Sites In Kelmis
This table shows an overview of the beschermd erfgoed, protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Kelmis. This list is part of Belgium's National Heritage Site (Belgium), national heritage. See also * Lists of protected heritage sites in the German-speaking Community of Belgium * List of protected heritage sites in Liège (province) *Kelmis References {{Commons category, Cultural heritage monuments in Kelmis * Belgian heritage register: Direction générale opérationnelle - Aménagement du territoire, Logement, Patrimoine et Energie (DGwww.dglive.beGeschützte Objekte in Kelmis Lists of protected heritage sites in Liège Province, Kelmis Kelmis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neutral Moresnet
Neutral Moresnet (, , , ) was a small Belgian–Prussian condominium in western Europe that existed from 1816 to 1921 and was administered jointly by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (Belgium after its independence in 1830) and the Kingdom of Prussia. It was wide and long, with an area of . After 1830, the territory's northernmost border point at Vaalserberg connected it to a quadripoint shared additionally with the Dutch Province of Limburg, the Prussian Rhine Province, and the Belgian Liège Province. That border point's position is currently represented by the Three-Country Point, the meeting place of the borders of Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands. During the First World War, Neutral Moresnet was annexed by Germany. The armistice between France and Germany in November 1918 forced Germany to withdraw from Belgium and Neutral Moresnet. A year later, the Treaty of Versailles awarded Neutral Moresnet to Belgium, as from 10 January 1921, when it become the munic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neu-Moresnet
Neu-Moresnet (, ) is a village and deelgemeente, sub-municipality of Kelmis in the German-speaking Community of Belgium, German-speaking community of the province of Liège Province, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. The village was founded as Prussian-Moresnet (German language, German: ''Preußisch-Moresnet'') as part of the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine, Lower Rhine Province. In 1919, after World War I, it was awarded to Belgium, and renamed Neu-Moresnet. In 1940, it was annexed by Nazi Germany, and in 1944, it was returned to Belgium. Neu-Moresnet was an independent municipality until 1977 when it was merged into Kelmis. History Originally there were two villages in the area: Moresnet and Kelmis. In 1794, the area was conquered by Napoleon, and the villages became part of the Moresnet municipality. In 1806, Jean-Jacques Dony received permission to look for zinc. Dony founded the Vieille Montagne mine in the municipality, and became Europe's largest producer of zinc. In 1815, after th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hergenrath
Hergenrath () or Hergenraedt (Dutch language, Standard Dutch: ''Hergenraat''; Limburgish: ''Herjent'') is a village and deelgemeente, sub-municipality in Belgium. It is located in the municipality of Kelmis in Liège Province, part of Wallonia. It is part of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. History Hergenrath was historically part of the Duchy of Limburg, one of the provinces of the Burgundian Netherlands. A dialect of German is spoken in Hergenrath, but the duchy it was part of was multilingual, with Dutch, French, and German dialects spoken. The area was annexed by France in 1794, then awarded to the Kingdom of Prussia by the Congress of Vienna, and became part of Belgium after World War I. In 1940, Belgium was Belgium in World War II, invaded by Nazi-Germany who merged Moresnet (village), Moresnet, Kelmis, Neu-Moresnet, and Hergenrath into Amt Moresnet as an integral part of Germany. In 1944, the villages were returned to Belgium. Hergenrath is now part of the Belgian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vieille Montagne
Vieille Montagne () was a zinc mine in Kelmis (La Calamine), a town in Belgium between Liège and Aachen. The mine's name is French for "old mountain" or "old mine", and this is also reflected in its German name, (earlier, ). The mine was once a bone of contention between Prussia on the one side and the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (later Belgium) on the other, that resulted in a piece of land that became the territory of Neutral Moresnet. History After he developed an original refining process, Belgian industrialist Jean-Jacques Dony received a decree from the Napoleonic authorities in 1806, allowing him to mine the zinc ore deposit at La Vieille Montagne near Liège. At that time, the area belonged to the French département of the Ourthe. After Napoleon's defeat, in 1816 the département was divided between Prussia, the Netherlands and the neutral zone of Neu-Moresnet, which contained the zinc mine. The ( ‘Vieille Montagne Zinc Mining Company and Foundries’) wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German‑speaking Community Of Belgium
The German-speaking Community (, , DG), also known as East Belgium ( ), is one of the three federal communities of Belgium. The community is composed of nine municipalities in Liège Province, Wallonia, within the Eupen-Malmedy region in Eastern Belgium. The primary language of the community is German, making this one of the three official languages in Belgium. Traditionally the community and the wider area around it forms an intersection of various local languages and/or dialects, namely Limburgish, Ripuarian and Moselle Franconian varieties. The community has an area of , and has a population of around 79,000 (as of January 2024)about 7.0% of Liège Province and about 0.7% of the national total. Bordering the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg, the area has its own parliament and government at Eupen. The German-speaking Community of Belgium was annexed in 1920 from Germany. There are also some other areas where German is spoken that belonged to Belgium before 1920, but th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element; it has symbol Zn and atomic number 30. It is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed. It is the first element in group 12 (IIB) of the periodic table. In some respects, zinc is chemically similar to magnesium: both elements exhibit only one normal oxidation state (+2), and the Zn2+ and Mg2+ ions are of similar size. Zinc is the 24th most abundant element in Earth's crust and has five stable isotopes. The most common zinc ore is sphalerite (zinc blende), a zinc sulfide mineral. The largest workable lodes are in Australia, Asia, and the United States. Zinc is refined by froth flotation of the ore, roasting, and final extraction using electricity ( electrowinning). Zinc is an essential trace element for humans, animals, plants and for microorganisms and is necessary for prenatal and postnatal development. It is the second most abundant trace metal in humans after iron, an import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Empire
The German Empire (),; ; World Book, Inc. ''The World Book dictionary, Volume 1''. World Book, Inc., 2003. p. 572. States that Deutsches Reich translates as "German Realm" and was a former official name of Germany. also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich; . from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the German revolution of 1918–1919, November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a Weimar Republic, republic. The German Empire consisted of States of the German Empire, 25 states, each with its own nobility: four constituent Monarchy, kingdoms, six Grand duchy, grand duchies, five Duchy, duchies (six before 1876), seven Principality, principalities, three Free imperial city, free Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City-state, cities, and Alsace–Lorraine, one imperial territory. While Prussia was one of four kingdoms in the realm, it contained about two-thirds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissement Of Verviers
The Arrondissement of Verviers (; ; ) is one of the four administrative arrondissements in the Walloon province of Liège, Belgium. It includes all the 9 municipalities of the German-speaking Community (about 1/4 of population), while the remaining 20 municipalities in the Arrondissement of Verviers are part of the French-speaking Community. The Administrative Arrondissement of Verviers consists of the following municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...: * Amel * Aubel * Baelen * Büllingen * Burg-Reuland * Bütgenbach * Dison * Eupen * Herve * Jalhay * Kelmis * Lierneux * Limbourg * Lontzen * Malmedy * Olne * Pepinster * Plombières * Raeren * Sankt Vith * Spa * Stavelot * Stoumont * Theux * Thimister-Clermont * Trois-Ponts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calamine (mineral)
Calamine is a historic name for an ore of zinc. The name ''calamine'' was derived from ''lapis calaminaris'', a Latin correption of Greek ''cadmia (καδμία)'', the old name for zinc ores in general. The name of the Belgium, Belgian town of Kelmis, ''La Calamine'' in French language, French, which was home to a zinc mine, comes from this. In the 18th and 19th centuries large ore mines could be found near the Germany, German village of Breinigerberg. During the early 19th century it was discovered that what had been thought to be one ore was actually two distinct minerals: * Zinc carbonate ZnCarbon, COxygen, O3 or smithsonite and * Zinc silicate Zn4Silicon, Si2O7(OHydrogen, H)2·H2O or hemimorphite. Although chemically and crystallographically quite distinct, the two minerals exhibit similar massive or botryoidal external form and are not readily distinguished without detailed chemical or physical analysis. The first person to separate the minerals was the Great Britain, Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaalserberg
The Vaalserberg (; ) is a hill with a height of above Amsterdam Ordnance Datum, NAP and is the highest point in the Netherlands#Geography, European part of the Netherlands. The Vaalserberg is located in the province of Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg, at the south-easternmost edge of the country, near the town of Vaals (after which it is named). The Vaalserberg was the highest point anywhere in the Netherlands until the Caribbean island of Saba (island), Saba, with its Mount Scenery, volcano, was incorporated into the country as a "special municipality" in 2010. Three-country point The Vaalserberg is also the location of the tripoint between Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands and so its summit is called the ''Drielandenpunt'' ("three country point") in Dutch, ''Dreiländereck'' ("three country corner") in German and ''Trois Frontières'' ("three borders") or ''Trois Bornes'' ("three border stones") in French. On the Belgian side, the tripoint borders the region of Wallon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SPF Economie
The FPS Economy, SMEs, Middle Classes, and Energy (, , ), more commonly known as the FPS Economy, is a Federal Public Service of Belgium. It was created by Royal Order on 25 February 2002, as part of the plans of the Verhofstadt I Government to modernise the federal administration. It is responsible for contributing to the development, competitiveness and sustainability of the goods and services market, ensuring the position of the Belgian economy at the international level, promoting trade by fair economic relations in a competitive market, collecting, processing and disseminating economic information. Organisation The FPS Economy is currently organised into seven Directorates-General: * The Directorate-General for Energy * The Directorate-General for Economic Regulation * The Directorate-General for Economic Analysis and International Economy * The Directorate-General for SMEs Policy * The Directorate-General for Quality and Security * The Directorate-General for Economic Inspect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
