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Residential building Lütticher Straße 597 in Bildchen

Bildchen is a settlement in the south of the city of Aachen on the border between Germany and Belgium . Until 1995 there was a border crossing here.

location

The settlement is located in the Aachen-Mitte district on the southern edge of the Aachen Forest at an altitude of 220 m. The Lütticher Straße ( B264 ) runs through the settlement and runs from Aachen to Lüttich and on the Belgian side as the N3 through the village of Neu-Moresnet , which belongs to Kelmis . The Tüljebach, which rises nearby, flows through little pictures. The Preuswald settlement lies north of the village .

In the local public transport , Bildchen can be reached with a bus on the ASEAG line 24 , which runs from the bus station to Kelmis. The Liège – Aachen railway line runs east of the village .

history

"Green border" picture 2019

The area of ​​Bildchen originally belonged to the Duchy of Limburg , which was conquered by the French revolutionary troops in 1792. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Bildchen became part of the Prussian Moresnet community, now Neu-Moresnet , in the Eupen district . By the Versailles Treaty of 1919, Preußisch Moresnet was awarded to Belgium . As part of border corrections, Bildchen came back to Germany in 1922 and was incorporated into the city of Aachen together with other returned areas of the former Eupen district . After the Second World War , Bildchen and other areas came under Belgian administration in 1949 , but were returned to Germany in 1958.

A plaque from the Ways Against Forgetting project , which was attached to the formerly listed building at Lütticher Straße 599 and was temporarily removed because of its dilapidation, commemorates Bildchen's role before and during World War II . The inscription reads:

“In the years 1933–1944, the border near Aachen and the surrounding area became the scene of inhumane escape scenes. People were pushed back and forth, imprisoned, robbed, robbed and beaten. Help for money to escape flourished as a profitable business. They were also often given anonymous humanity by border residents. They gave spontaneous and organized help to refugees. On May 10, 1940, German troops invaded Belgium and brought immeasurable suffering to the people of our neighboring country. "

After the Schengen Agreement came into force in 1995, the Aachen-Bildchen border crossing was abolished.

Townscape

Bildchen has the shape of a street village and extends about two kilometers along Lütticher Straße. To the south there are farms with livestock farming. Some of the buildings are entered in the list of monuments of the city of Aachen . The manor house at Lütticher Straße 599, which dates back to 1752, was removed from the list of monuments in 2008 because of its dilapidated condition.

At the southern end of the village is a soccer field that is used by the club FC Cro Sokoli Aachen , which plays in the Aachen regional league .

To the west of Lütticher Straße between Bildchen and the Belgian border lies the Bildchen nature reserve , an approximately 5- hectare nature reserve with a birch break forest , Großseggenried and wet meadow . Opposite it are the remains of several old bunkers from 1938, which were part of the west wall , scattered along the roadside or in the nearby forest .

  • Lütticher Strasse 580-582

  • Lütticher Straße 599 (photo from 2010)

  • Farm on the Luerweg

  • Bildchen nature reserve

  • Bunker system Bildchen

Web links

Commons : Bildchen  - a collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aachen: Bildchen came back to Aachen 50 years ago. In: Aachener Nachrichten. August 21, 2008, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Margot Gasper: The hamlet has belonged to Aachen again for 60 years: At midnight, Bildchen became German again. In: Aachener Zeitung. October 10, 2018, accessed April 15, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 1956: Aachen-Bildchen, Losheim a. a. are returned to Germany. In: GR-Atlas. Université du Luxembourg, accessed April 8, 2019 .
  4. ^ Lütticher Strasse, border. In: ways against forgetting. Volkshochschule Aachen, accessed on April 14, 2019 .
  5. ^ List of monuments in the area of ​​the city of Aachen . in the version of the 18th supplement. September 27, 2016, p. 14 ( aachen.de [PDF; 129 kB ]).
  6. ^ House ruins at the border crossing in Bildchen. In: Geographer. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Bildchen sports field (A). In: europlan-online.de. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 '  N , 6 ° 2'  E