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Raeren
Raeren () is a municipality of the German speaking community of Belgium located in the Walloon province of Liège. It was part of Germany until the First World War, after which it became part of Belgium. It is one of several towns in eastern Belgium which predominantly speak German. On 1 January 2006, Raeren had a total population of 10,091. The total area is 74.21 km2 which gives a population density of 136 inhabitants per km2. The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Eynatten, Hauset, and Raeren proper. Mathias Cormann, the former Minister for Finance of Australia and current Secretary-General of the OECD, was raised in Raeren. Transportation Its was the hub and headquarters of the Vennbahn railway. Image:Raeren, Sankt Nikolauskirche foto1 2010-09-04 15.57.JPG, Raeren, church: Sankt Nikolauskirche Image:BurgRaeren02.jpg, Raeren Castle See also * List of protected heritage sites in Raeren * German-speaking community of Belgium The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Protected Heritage Sites In Raeren
This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Raeren. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage. See also * Lists of protected heritage sites in the German-speaking Community of Belgium * List of protected heritage sites in Liège (province) * Raeren Raeren () is a municipality of the German speaking community of Belgium located in the Walloon province of Liège. It was part of Germany until the First World War, after which it became part of Belgium. It is one of several towns in eastern Bel ... {{Commons category, Cultural heritage monuments in Raeren References * Belgian heritage register: Direction générale opérationnelle - Aménagement du territoire, Logement, Patrimoine et Energie (DGwww.dglive.beGeschützte Objekte in Raeren Lists of protected heritage sites in Liège Province, Raeren Raeren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vennbahn
The (, "Fen Railway") is a former railway line that was built partly across what was then German territory by the Prussian state railways. It is now entirely in Belgium, because the trackbed of the line, as well as the stations and other installations, were made provisional Belgian territory in 1919 (permanent in 1922) under an article of the Treaty of Versailles. This had the effect of creating six small exclaves of Germany on the line's western side, of which five remain. The treaty (not the location of the trackbed, ''per se'') also created one small Belgian counter-enclave, a traffic island inside a three-way German road intersection near which lasted until 1949. The route is now a cycle way. Route The line, which was standard gauge, ran for some across the High Fens to the south of Aachen in a roughly southward direction from Aachen via (the site of the depot), Monschau and to , with a eastward branch from to and . At Eupen it connected with the line to Herbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlattenhaus
The Vlattenhaus is a castle-like building in the town of Eynatten, belonging to the Belgian municipality of Raeren, located on Hauseter Straße, just 200 meters away from Amstenrath Castle. History In the 2nd half of the 14th century, the Vlattenhaus was built by ''Peter of Eynatten'', the brother of Johann of Eynatten who had a predecessor of the adjacent castle built. On the site of the Vlattenhaus there was probably previously a feudal farm of the estate Amstenrath. In 1434 the male line of the family died out and the house, through marriage, came into other hands. In 1728 the house, which was rather dilapidated at the time, was given to the Jesuits. They had it demolished to build a smaller house in its place. The moats were also turned into fishponds. In 1773, the order was dissolved, and the house was sold again to a private individual. Finally, after World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hauset
Hauset is a village in the Belgian municipality of Raeren, part of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. The village is around 260m over Mean Sea Level, along the small river Geul and borders the Forest of Aachen. The population, around 1700 inhabitants, is German-speaking and is about half of German citizens who come from the Aachen region. Hauset is on the border to Germany, close to Aachen. Adjacent Belgian villages are Hergenrath, Walhorn and Eynatten. External links * Raeren Belgium–Germany border crossings {{Liege-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathias Cormann
Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann (; ; born 20 September 1970) is a Belgian-born Australian politician and diplomat who serves as Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), having assumed the office on 1 June 2021. Cormann was Australian Minister for Finance (Australia), Minister for Finance from 2013 to 2020 and a Australian Senate, Senator from Western Australia for the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party from 2007 to 2020. His tenure of more than seven years as Minister for Finance was the longest in Australian history, spanning the Abbott government, Abbott, Turnbull government, Turnbull, and Morrison governments. On 20 December 2017, Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull promoted Cormann to be Leader of the Government in the Senate (Australia), Leader of the Government in the Senate. He also served as Special Minister of State from 2015 to 2016, 2017 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liège Province
Liège ( ; ; ; ; ) is the easternmost province of the Wallonia region of Belgium. Liège Province is the only Belgian province that has borders with three countries. It borders (clockwise from the north) the Dutch province of Limburg, the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, the Luxembourgish canton of Clervaux, the Belgian Walloon (French-speaking) provinces of Luxembourg, Namur and Walloon Brabant and the Belgian Flemish (Dutch-speaking) provinces of Flemish Brabant and Limburg. Part of the eastern-most area of the province, bordering Germany, is the German-speaking region of Eupen-Malmedy, which became part of Belgium in the aftermath of World War I. The capital and the largest city of the province is the city of the same name, Liège. The province has an area of , and a population of 1.12 million as of January 2024. History The modern borders of the province of Liège date from 1795, which saw the unification of the Principali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aachen
Aachen is the List of cities in North Rhine-Westphalia by population, 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, 27th-largest city of Germany, with around 261,000 inhabitants. Aachen is located at the northern foothills of the High Fens and the Eifel Mountains. It sits on the Wurm (Rur), Wurm River, a tributary of the Rur (river), Rur, and together with Mönchengladbach, it is the only larger German city in the drainage basin of the Meuse. It is the westernmost larger city in Germany, lying approximately west of Cologne and Bonn, directly bordering Belgium in the southwest, and the Netherlands in the northwest. The city lies in the Meuse–Rhine Euroregion and is the seat of the Aachen (district), district of Aachen ''(Städteregion Aachen)''. The once Celts, Celtic settlement was equipped with several in the course of colonization by Roman people, Roman pioneers settling at the warm Aachen thermal springs around the 1st cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eynatten
Eynatten is a village in the Belgian municipality of Raeren, part of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. Eynatten is on the border to Germany, south from Aachen. Around half of the population are non-Belgians, most of them Germans. Eynatten is located on route N68 between Aachen, Germany and the German-speaking Belgian town of Eupen. Eupen is around to the southwest. Frequent bus services run between Aachen and Eupen, stopping at various places in Eynatten en route. See also * Oehl * Vlattenhaus External links * Raeren Belgium–Germany border crossings {{Liege-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lontzen
Lontzen () is a municipality located in East Belgium. On January 1, 2018 Lontzen had a total population of 5,695. The total area is 28.73 km2 which gives a population density of 198 inhabitants per km2. The municipality consists of the following sub-municipalities: Lontzen proper, Herbesthal, and Walhorn. In the 19th century, a Low Franconian In historical linguistics, historical and comparative linguistics, Low Franconian is a linguistic category used to classify a number of historical and contemporary West Germanic languages, West Germanic Variety (linguistics), varieties closely r ... dialect was widely spoken in Lontzen. See also * List of protected heritage sites in Lontzen References External links * Official web page {{Liege-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eupen
Eupen (, , ; ; ; former ) is the capital of German-speaking Community of Belgium and is a city and municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Belgium, Belgian Liège Province, province of Liège, from the Germany, German border (Aachen), from the Netherlands, Dutch border (Maastricht) and from the "High Fens" nature reserve (Ardennes). The town is also the capital of the Euroregion Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, Meuse-Rhine. First mentioned in 1213 as belonging to the Duchy of Limburg, possession of Eupen passed to Brabant (duchy), Brabant, Burgundy (historical region), Burgundy, the Holy Roman Empire and France before being given in 1815 to Prussia, which became part of the new German Empire in 1871. In 1919, after the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles transferred Eupen and the nearby municipality of Malmedy from Germany to Belgium. German language, German remains the official language in Eupen (also spoken in the form of the Eupen dialect), and the city serves as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roetgen
Roetgen () is a municipality in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Roetgen is located approximately 16 km (10 mi) south-east of Aachen, near the border with Belgium. It is in the north of the High Fens-Eifel Nature Park on the Weser stream which rises a few kilometres to the south. Between Roetgen and Rott is the Dreilägerbach Reservoir, which is fed by the Dreilägerbach stream and the artificially Schleebachgraben and Hasselbachgraben ditches. The attached waterworks supplies large parts of Aachen and the Dutch town of Kerkrade with drinking water. The parish of Roetgen includes the villages of Roetgen, Rott and Mulartshütte, which is the oldest part of Roetgen. To the northwest is the borough of Aachen with its quarters of Kornelimünster and Walheim, to the northeast is the town of Stolberg with its quarters of Venwegen and Zweifall, to the southeast is the Simmerath parish of Lammersdorf. To the west, on the far si ... [...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 Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium, 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 language, Limburgish, Ripuarian language, Ripuarian and Moselle Franconian dialects, 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 Treaty of V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
