Verviers

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Verviers is a city in the east of Belgium and is located in the valley of the Weser (French: Vesdre) in the northern foothills of the Ardennes. It belongs to the province of Liège in Wallonia. The German border is not far away, Aachen is 30 km. Verviers is the capital of the district, which includes 29 municipalities.

History

Verviers was until well into the 20th century known worldwide as a center of the wool trade and the textile industry. Starting point for the textile industry was the soft (ie, almost lime-free ) water of the Weser, making it ideal for washing wool and other textiles. The water of the Weser The low lime content explained by the fact that the Weser and its tributaries are fed by the moors of the High Fens. Now a museum recalls the time the textile industry. The presence has arrived with a manufacturing facility for solar modules.

Boroughs

The town of Verviers includes the community since 1977 merger of the former municipalities in addition Ensival, Heusy, Lambermont, Petit- Rechain and Stembert. The city Dison forms with Verviers a closed urban zone.

Attractions

Worth seeing are the many originating from the period of bourgeois houses that characterize whole streets. Since the early 1990s, efforts have been increasingly undertaken to make the city more attractive image. Verviers is called " the water Walloon capital," newly created numerous fountains, water features and a " Musée de l' eau" illustrate this. On the history of the textile industry remembers the "Centre Touristique de la Laine et de la Mode ", held in the temporary exhibitions and seminars.

As religious buildings is the Church of Saint- Remacle from 1838 to 1650 mention the finished church of Our Lady of Récollets. The former post office building (1909 ) with stylistic elements of Gothic and Renaissance is in direct proximity to Ortmans Fontaine (1895 ). The neoclassical theater from the period, the Palace of Justice and the town hall from the late 18th century are other sights.

Built in 1925-1930 Verviers central station is a held in the Art Nouveau station building. He is one of the rare across the tracks created tab stations.

Not far from Verviers is the Gileppe Dam, which ensures the water supply of the city and industry since 1878.

Traffic

Verviers is on the railway line Aachen - Liege -Brussels ( Wesertalstrecke ). Keep the main station hourly IC trains on the Eupen -Brussels- Ostend. Aachen Hbf is accessible every two hours with the euregioAIXpress.

Furthermore it has the route to Spa - Géronstère the station its starting point. At this distance is also the breakpoint - Verviers Palais, which is operated by the local trains connecting Welkenraedt - Géronstère. Monday to Friday, also hold individual trains to Liège and an inter-regional train pair between Aachen and Herstal.

Twinning

  • France Arles, France
  • France La Motte- Chalencon, France
  • Germany Mönchengladbach, Germany
  • France Roubaix, France

The latter three cities are known as " Textile City " with Verviers and interconnected through partnerships.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Jean -Jacques Andrien (* 1944), a Belgian film director, screenwriter and film producer
  • Bertrand Baguette ( born 1986 ), race car driver
  • André Blavier (1922-2001), librarian, journalist and writer
  • Félicien Chapuis (1824-1879), physician and entomologist
  • William Cockerill (1759-1832), inventor and industrialist who in 1797 came to Verviers
  • Mathieu Crickboom (1871-1947), violinist
  • Marc Duez ( born 1957 ), race car driver
  • Albert Dupuis (1877-1967), composer
  • David Engels ( b. 1979 ), historian, professor at the ULB
  • Jacques Géron, cartoonist
  • Philippe Gilbert ( b. 1982 ), cyclist
  • Yvan Goor (1884-1958), bicycle and motorcycle racer
  • Henri -Antoine Jardon (1768-1809), General of Infantry
  • Jean -Marie Klinkenberg (1944 ), linguist and semiotician
  • Lekeu Guillaume (1870-1894), composer
  • Roger Leloup ( born 1933), comic artist, sometimes in Studio Hergé
  • Jean Mawhin ( b. 1942 ), mathematician and historian of mathematics
  • Kévin Van Melsen (* 1987), cyclist
  • Dominique Monami (born 1973 ), tennis player
  • Henri Pirenne (1862-1935), historian
  • Eric van de Poele (* 1961), race car driver
  • Mathieu QUOIDBACH (1873-1951), cyclist
  • Sébastien Rosseler ( b. 1981 ), cyclist
  • Georges Ruggiu ( born 1957 ), broadcaster and war criminals
  • Eddy Seel (* 1970), Supermoto racer
  • Iwan Simonis (1769-1829), billiard cloth manufacturer
  • Jacques Stotzem ( born 1959 ), guitarist ( fingerstyle )
  • Boris Vallee, cyclists
  • Jean Vallée (1941-2014), singer
  • Henri Vieuxtemps (1820-1881), violinist and composer
  • Violetta Villas (1938-2011), Polish singer
  • Vincent Bosse ( b. 1972 ), race car driver
  • Guy Weitz (1883-1970), organist and composer
  • Olga Zanders (1872-1946), German paper mill Antin
Arrondissement of Verviers Parti Socialiste (Belgium) Aachen Hauptbahnhof Spa, Belgium Bradford England Guillaume Lekeu Amay Amel Anthisnes Aubel Awans Aywaille Baelen Bassenge Berloz Beyne-Heusay Blegny Braives Burdinne Burg-Reuland Chaudfontaine Clavier, Liège Comblain-au-Pont Dalhem Donceel Engis Esneux Faimes Fexhe-le-Haut-Clocher Geer Hamoir Hannut Herve Juprelle Kelmis Lierneux Lincent Lontzen Marchin Modave Nandrin Olne Oreye Ouffet Oupeye Pepinster Raeren Remicourt, Belgium Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse Saint-Nicolas, Belgium Soumagne Sprimont Stavelot Stoumont Theux Thimister-Clermont Tinlot Trooz Verlaine Villers-le-Bouillet Wanze Wasseiges
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