Waremme

Waremme
Waremme
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Liege
District :	Waremme
Coordinates :	50 ° 42 ′  N , 5 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′  N , 5 ° 15 ′  E
Area :	31.04 km²
Residents:	15,334 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density:	494 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	4300
Prefix:	019
Mayor:	Jacques Chabot ( PS )
Local government address :	Rue J. Wauters, 2 4300 Waremme
Website:	www.waremme.be

Waremme ( Walloon Wareme , Dutch Borgworm ) is a small francophone Belgian town in the Wallonia region . It is located in the province of Liège and is the capital of the Belgian arrondissement of the same name . Waremme has 15,334 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) and an area of ​​31.04 km².

Liège is 23 kilometers (km) east-southeast, Namur 36 km southwest and the Belgian capital Brussels 64 km northwest.

Waremme has its own motorway exit on the Belgian A3 / E40 motorway , and another is 11 km south of Villers-le-Bouillet on the A15 / E42 . The city has a regional train station on the Brussels – Liège railway line ; Interregional express trains such as u. a. the Thalys on the connection Paris / Ostend - Liège - Aachen - Cologne . The nearest regional airport, Liège Airport, is near Bierset, near the city of Liège, and Brussels-Zaventem International Airport is near Brussels .

Town twinning

• Skopje , Macedonia , since 1975
• Gérardmer , France , since 1978
• Gallinaro , Italy , since 1999

photos

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  The Church of St Peter (1879/1881)

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  The town hall (1901)

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  Monument to Joseph Wauters

Web links

Commons : Waremme  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Borchworm in the Topographia Westphaliae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Official website of the city (French)