Kettenis
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| Region : | Wallonia | ||
| Province : | Liege | ||
| District : | Verviers | ||
| Municipality : | Eupen | ||
| Coordinates : | 50 ° 39 ′ N , 6 ° 3 ′ E | ||
| Residents: | 4,000 pop. | ||
Kettenis is a town in the town of Eupen in the German-speaking Community of Belgium . Around 4,000 people live in what is now the Eupen district. They are regularly informed about current issues in the area via their own village newspaper.
geography
The center of Kettenis lies between Eupen and Aachen , around 14 kilometers away on the other side of the Belgian-German border. The place also consists of the hamlets Gemehret, Libermé, Nispert, Oberste Heide.
history
In Prussian times, Kettenis comprised the rural community of Kettenis and was administered by a mayor's office. On January 10, 1920, Kettenis and the mayorships of Eynatten, Hauset and Walhorn were ceded to Belgium, but together they rejoined the German Reich in 1940 and a few months later were merged into the office of Kettenis with an official mayor at its head. Kettenis has been a district of Eupen since the municipal merger in 1977 .
In Kettenis there is the Libermé Castle , which was temporarily the seat of the Hoesch / Heusch or Husche de Liberme family. Members of the family had been lay judges of the "Bank Walhorn", which is an administrative and judicial district in the Duchy of Limburg , since the 15th century . Between the 17th and 19th centuries, their descendants were active in ore mining and iron extraction in the Kall valley near Vossenack , later members of the family were among the most successful steel industrialists in the Ruhr area.
The valley Castle was around 1775 as a country residence of the cloth merchant's Grand Ry built of Eupen. After numerous changes of ownership, the building was extensively renovated in 1986. It was important to ensure that the historical substance was preserved.
language
In addition to the standard German taught at school and used in the community , the population speaks the regional Platdiets , a Limburg dialect.
Like all German-speaking places in Belgium, Eupen is a community of facilities with language facilities for the French-speaking minority. This means that the municipality has to offer many services and forms in French as well.
Sights and mansions
- The parish church of St. Katharina from the 15th / 16th centuries Century with a high altar by the Aachen baroque master builder Johann Joseph Couven and an altarpiece by the Palatine court painter Francesco Bernardini (1697–1762)
- Libermé Castle , oldest known mention in 1334
- Thal Castle , was built between 1754 and 1757 as a country residence for the cloth merchant Renier-François de Grand Ry.
- Weims Castle , built in the 14th century, first mentioned in 1334
- Waldenburghaus , formerly called Merols Castle, used to contain stucco work by Petrus Nicolaas Gagini , which was sold after the fire in the 1970s. This stucco work is currently again in a depot of the German-speaking community.
- Philippenhaus
The manor of Libermé Castle
Thal Castle
The manor house of Weims Castle
Philippenhaus
- see also: List of cultural monuments in Eupen , including Kettenis
Personalities
- Carl Bernhard Wilhelm Scheibler (1827–1899), chemist
- Arnold Schunck (1842–1905) businessman, founder of the Heerlen trading company Schunck .
- Stephanie Binding (* 1978), sculptor and painter, lives and works in Kettenis
literature
- Bernhard Heeren: Kettenis Ein Heimatbuch, Markus-Verlag, Eupen 1977.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kettenis village newspaper ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Henry d'Otreppe de Bouvette: Castle valley . In: Ghislaine de Bievre (ed.): Province de Liège: Arrondissement de Verviers (= Le patrimoine monumental de la Belgique . Volume 12/1). Mardaga, Lüttich 1984, ISBN 2-8021-0062-9 , p. 327 ( online ).
- ↑ Thal Castle . Retrieved January 7, 2011.
- ^ Parish association Eupen-Kettenis
