Plombières

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Plombières ( Bleiberg or Bleyberg, at the request of the place Bleyberg 1919 given by royal resolution of the place-name Plombières ) is a political area municipality in Belgium. The municipality is part of the border triangle between the Belgian Kingdom, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has 9907 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2012) and belongs to the Walloon Region, the Province of Liège and the arrondissement (district) Verviers. She also belongs to the Euregio Meuse -Rhine.

Geography

Geographical location

Part of the municipal boundaries is identical to the state border. The community is located about 12 kilometers west of Aachen (D), 17 km north of Eupen (B ), approximately 40 km east of Liège / Liège (B ), 20 km east of Verviers (B ) and 33 km south-east of Maastricht ( NL ) away.

The neighboring municipalities / cities in Belgium: La Calamine, Lontzen, Aubel, Welkenraedt, Teuven / Voeren, as well as in the Netherlands Vaals and Mechelen -Wittem and in Germany Aachen.

Landscape

The community is rural, but draws them to transport network is by its close proximity to the three also regionally important cities of Liège ( B), Aachen (Germany) and Maastricht ( NL), the district capital of Verviers (B) and Eupen (B ), the capital of the German-speaking Community of Belgium, from.

A popular local beauty spot is the triangle BD -NL on the Vaalserberg with country pubs, the lookout tower tour Baudouin / Baldwin Tower - which belongs to Gemmenich, about 50 m on the Belgian side - on the Dutch side with the largest maze in Europe and only 30 meters from " Drielandenpunt " away, the highest point of the European Netherlands, belonging to Vaals, as well as many hiking trails in the Forest of Aachen in and through all three states. Through the town flows the Göhl in a picturesque valley, it opens later in the Netherlands, in the Meuse. For the former lead mining in place their river has been permanently relocated. To this end, a tunnel was blasted by a rock; now flows through the Göhl same over a small weir and lock a idyllic, artificial waterfall.

Structure

Plombières consists of nine districts:

  • Plombières ( Bleiberg / Bleyberg )
  • Moresnet or Moresnet -Village ( Village, French for ' village ') (1975 incorporated )
  • Eikschen (a Ekske tions ) or Moresnet -Chapelle (municipality part of Moresnet ) ( Chapelle, frz, Chapel ')
  • Hombourg ( Homburg ) (1975 incorporated )
  • Gemmenich (1975 incorporated )
  • Völkerich (municipality part of Gemmenich )
  • Montzen (1975 incorporated )
  • Montzen -Gare (Gare French, station ') (municipality part of Montzen )
  • Sippenaeken ( clan Aachen ) (1975 incorporated )

The postal codes of Plombières are: 4850, 4851 and 4852nd

Population

The municipal boundaries of Plombières (see also French Community of Belgium) limits beyond intra- Belgian to the language and region borders the German-speaking Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community of Belgium.

Many residents of Plombières are multilingual and speak two or three languages. The autochthonous native speakers of a part of a variant of the Ripuarian (North Central Franconian language or Rheinländisches Platt) and High German, on the other, a Lower Rhine to Dutch Limburg dialect of Low Franconian colored (or Rheinmaasländischen ). A mixed form is about the Gemmenicher Platt dar. addition also a Walloon dialect and French is maintained. High German was the language school and church until 1918. Since the vote on the linguistic assignment in Belgium in 1963 French is the official language in Plombières. From the considerations of language research proves Plombières a highly interesting area dar.

In earlier times, the inhabitants Plombières lived by mining. Thus, founded in 1846, the corporation to Bleyberg ès Montzen the lead smelter Münsterbusch at Stolberg. The last mine was closed in 1975. The community suffers from high unemployment and since then an increased leaving home just by young people.

History

Plombières looks as a border community back on an eventful history. It is located in a scenic mountain landscape in the foothills of the Ardennes and the Eifel.

Plombières holds across Belgium a political record: On 4 December 2006 Thierry Wimmer was elected mayor of Plombières selected. He was aged 22 at the time of his election, the youngest mayor in Belgium.

Culture and sights

Moresnet -Chapelle or Eikchen, also a tions Ekske ( at the small oak ') called, is a place of pilgrimage with its miraculous image, the Sanctuary and the park-style way of the cross ( with 14 station pictures of Wilhelm Albermann ) of regional importance. The Calvary ( Calvary ) was until early 2006 supervised by a Franciscan monastery, which is now converted into a Catholic meeting place.

In Moresnet -Village spans the Göhltalviadukt, one of Europe's longest railway viaducts, the valley of Göhl, with a length of 1120 m and a height of up to 58 m. It was built in 1916 when the site was occupied by the troops of the Imperial German Empire; 2002 to 2004 the viaduct was restored.

Pictures

Gemmenich, Church of St. Hubert

Between Sippenaeken and Gemmenich, panoramic

Sippenaeken, townscape

Sippenaeken, Church of St. Lambert

Sippenaeken Castle Beusdael

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