Engis

Engis
Engis
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Liege
District :	Huy
Coordinates :	50 ° 35 '  N , 5 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 35 '  N , 5 ° 24'  E
Area :	27.74 km²
Residents:	6138 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density:	221 inhabitants per km²
Height:	70  m
Post Code:	4480
Prefix:	04
Mayor:	Serge Manzato (PS)
Local government address :	Administration communale Rue Reine Astrid, 13 4480 Engis
Website:	www.engis.be

Engis ( Walloon Indji ) is a Belgian municipality in the Wallonia region . The place is in the Belgian arrondissement of Huy in the province of Liège . Engis has 6138 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) and an area of ​​27.74 km².

location

The place lies in the valley of the Meuse (French: Meuse ) at an altitude of approx. 70 meters above sea ​​level . Liège is about 13 kilometers (km) northeast, Namur 40 km southwest and Brussels 76 km northwest (all information as the crow flies to the city center).

The next motorway exit is 5 km northwest of the neighboring municipality of Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse on the Belgian A15 motorway. Engis itself has a regional train station on the Charleroi -Namur-Engis- Liège line . The nearest train station is in Liège, where express trains stop (including the Thalys Paris - Brussels - Cologne ). The nearest regional airport is located near the city of Liège ; the nearest airport of international importance to Brussels.

history

Engis 1 , the sapiens skull by Engis

In a cave near Engis in 1829 Philippe-Charles Schmerling (1790–1836) found the first scientifically described fossil remains of that prehistoric human form that was later called the Neanderthal (the fossil Engis 2 ). Although Schmerling correctly concluded that all finds were equally old based on stone tools and fossil animal bones he had also discovered and found no evidence of artificial earth movements, the vast majority of naturalists considered the human-like fossils to be "modern" and their spatial ones during his lifetime Proximity to the other finds as a result of a funeral misunderstood.

Personalities

• Jean-Pierre Dardenne (* 1951), film director and screenwriter

Web links

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

• Official website of the municipality (French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Philippe-Charles Schmerling : Recherches sur les ossements fossiles découverts dans les cavernes de la Province de Liège. P.-J. Collardin, Liège 1833, p. 30 ff.