Lontzen

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Lontzen is a municipality in the Belgian province of Liège and is located in the northwest of the existing nine municipalities German-speaking Community of Belgium, which it borders on the Walloon Region. It lies north of the High Fens is to the E40 motorway ( Aachen -Brussels ) connected. The community Lontzen consists of the aggregated to the municipality merger of 1977 communes with Lontzen Lontzen -Busch, Herbesthal and Walhorn with Astenet and Rabotrath.

History

Finds of pottery shards indicate a settlement to the Celtic period. The first written mention dates from April 21, 1076, when Emperor Henry IV the bailiwicks Lontzen, Walhorn and Mesch ( at Montzen ) gave the Marienstift in Aachen. A first chapel was replaced in 1328 by a parish church. Until the French Revolution Lontzen belonged to the Duchy of Limburg. From 1795 it was part of the French department of Ourthe. By the Treaty of Paris the 30th May 1814 Lontzen was again separated from France and assigned in accordance with the decisions of the Congress of Vienna of 1815 Prussia. Lontzen first belonged to the Grand Duchy of the Lower Rhine (1822 to the Rhine Province ) and to the district of Eupen. At that time, German was recognized as an official language. The Treaty of Versailles in 1919 closed certain that the region and thus Lontzen with effect from 10 January 1920, to Belgium. From 1940 to 1944, there was once again the German Reich. Since the end of World War II Lontzen again belongs to Belgium.

Landscape

The pronounced meadow landscape has its origins in the here usually encountered dairy cattle breeding the local farmers.

Policy

The CSP ( Union ) is the mayor Alfred Lecerf. Other parties are ECOLO, Vivant and Energy ( Local Wählergemeinschaft ).

Attractions

St. Anne's Chapel

St. Hubertus Church

Lontzen Castle - residence of the family of Scheibler

  • Village Festival with vintage tractor exhibit with about 300 tractors always on the third Sunday in August
  • Village History Collection (DGS ) in village house Lontzen 2006 is the "Village History Collection " moved into their new home "The Village House "

Economy and Transport

The municipality is crossed from southwest to northeast by the here directly alongside each other roads the speed rail line HSL 3 and the A3 motorway.

In the southwestern part of the township, on the border with Eupen and Welkenraedt, a new phase of the inter-municipal business park East Belgian Park is opened up.

Personalities

  • Bernhard Paul Friedrich Hugo von Scheibler (1825-1888), Justice of the Peace and Prussian District Administrator of Monschau
Arrondissement of Verviers Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor Treaty of Paris (1814) List of protected heritage sites in Lontzen Amel Burg-Reuland Kelmis Raeren Amay Anthisnes Aubel Awans Aywaille Baelen Bassenge Berloz Beyne-Heusay Blegny Braives Burdinne Chaudfontaine Clavier, Liège Comblain-au-Pont Dalhem Dison Donceel Engis Esneux Faimes Fexhe-le-Haut-Clocher Geer Hamoir Hannut Herstal Herve Juprelle Lierneux Lincent Marchin Modave Nandrin Olne Oreye Ouffet Oupeye Pepinster Remicourt, Belgium Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse Saint-Nicolas, Belgium Soumagne Spa, Belgium Sprimont Stavelot Stoumont Theux Thimister-Clermont Tinlot Trooz Verlaine Verviers Villers-le-Bouillet Wanze Wasseiges
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