Nieuwstadt

Nieuwstadt (Dutch with - dt, limburgs De Nuujsjtadt ) is a historic small town with 3,345 residents currently in the Dutch province of Limburg, between the Meuse and the German Selfkantbahn area at the smallest with only 5 km wide body of the kingdom. Nieuwstadt 1982 was incorporated into Susteren and, since 2003, the southernmost settlement of the eleven centers of the municipality Echt-Susteren.

History

Just as the name indicates, the regular road network on a proposed new plant. After issuance of municipal rights by Count Otto II ( money ) in 1263 the place was a city fortification wall and moat. A 1277 written in Latin document names the city (probably in the genitive ) Vill ( a) November e (a ) e apud Elsene. Where the older neighboring Elsen or Helsen may have been is unknown. The Prince-Bishop of Liège Henry III. of funds (1245-1285) inherited Nieuwstadt along with his seat Montfort to his nephew Rainald I of funds. In his rhymed chronicle of the Battle of Worringen Jan van Heelu mentioned around 1292 that this Duke had in 1286 to " his fortress to the New City " (ter Nuwer Stat) withdrawn.

In 1583, the fortifications were razed, but Nieuwstadt retained its municipal rights. Assuming it was the Upper funds between Office Montfort. Until 1715 it was part of Spanish money. The boundary between Prussia and the United Provinces in the Congress of Vienna in 1815 enlarged the land owned by the city to a portion of the lands of the castle Millen including the castle and the flour mill. The oil mill beyond the border-river redefined, however, came to Prussia.

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