Hauset

Hauset is a village in the East Belgian municipality in the canton of Eupen Raeren. The village with around 1700 inhabitants belongs to the German-speaking Community. The population is German and is about one half of German citizens who come from the surrounding Aachen. The place is around 260 over N.N. the creek Göhl and adjacent to the Forest of Aachen.

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History

The name Walhorn found for the first time in a document of 833. For bank Walhorn were all places in the vicinity. Emperor Henry IV gave the 1072 to the Duchy of Limburg belonging Bank Walhorn the Marienstift Aachen.

In a document was in 1266 for the first time a "Bosch of Hoisoit " mentioned. A few years later, in 1271, the castle of Hauset in connection with the name is mentioned " Tilhelm of Holseit " in a document. The ground plan of the castle is still visible today.

St. Rocco is a chapel consecrated, which was built by a plague epidemic from 1635 to 1637 in 1650 and 1899 restored, as well as the neo-Gothic parish church of 1858 ( extended from 1908 to 1910, Bell Tower, 1961 ). Hauset was detached in 1676 from the parish Walhorn and assigned to the parish Eynatten.

Built to a design by Georg Moller hammer bridge was inaugurated in 1843. She was a two-storey railway viaduct over the Geulvallei and the connection between Cologne, Liege, Antwerp and Brussels. The old bridge was blown up at the beginning of World War II.

Hauset was an independent municipality in 1848, a few years later the building was a school. 1857, the foundation stone for their own parish church was laid in Hauset. Since the Belgian municipal reform of 1977 Hauset belongs to the municipality Raeren.