Herve
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Herve is a Belgian town in the Walloon Region. It is located in the province of Liège in the Belgian Arrondissement Verviers.
Herve has 17,166 inhabitants ( 1 January 2012) and an area of 56.98 km ² ( 56.84 km ² according to other sources ), including the 1977 eingemeindeten, formerly independent places Battice, Bolland, Bruyeres, Chaineux, Charneux, Grand -Rechain José, Julémont, Manaihant, Xhendelesse and their hamlets.
Verviers is located eight kilometers south-east, 15 km west of Liège, Maastricht 25 km north, 25 km north-east of Aachen and the Belgian capital, Brussels, about 100 km west- northwest.
History
From the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century, belonged to the high bank Herve as one of the administrative and judicial districts of the duchy of Limburg. In the 17th century praised the merchants from Herve at the fairs in Frankfurt and Leipzig its regional cheese specialty, the Herve cheese, also called Remoudou, in exchange for other goods to.
Traffic
The nearest motorway exits are Herve Battice on the Belgian motorway A 3 / e 40 and Chaineux and Dison on the A 27 / E 42
In Verviers is the nearest regional train station in Liège also keep on regional express trains such as, inter alia, the Thalys and ICE International on the connecting Paris / Oostende - Liege -Aachen -Cologne- Frankfurt am Main.
The next regional airports located near the cities of Liège and Maastricht, the nearest international airports are located in Brussels, Dusseldorf and Cologne.
Sons and daughters of the city
- Hanlet Henri (1888-1964), a cyclist, born in the district Xhendelesse
- Georges grams (1926-1985), former mayor of Herve and Belgian Minister of the Interior