Kelmis

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Kelmis
Kelmis
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Liege
District :	Verviers
Coordinates :	50 ° 43 '  N , 6 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '  N , 6 ° 1'  E
Area :	18.12 km²
Residents:	11,108 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density:	613 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	4720 (Kelmis) 4721 (Neu-Moresnet) 4728 (Hergenrath)
Prefix:	087
Mayor:	Luc Frank ( CSP )
Local government address :	Kirchstrasse 31 4720 Kelmis
Website:	www.kelmis.be

Kelmis ( French La Calamine ) is a municipality in the eastern cantons in the Belgian province of Liège with 11,108 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). Kelmis is one of the nine municipalities of the German-speaking Community in Belgium. The earlier German name for Kelmis was Altenberg . Today the community belongs to the Euregio Meuse-Rhine .

geography

Location of the municipality of Kelmis (yellow) with its individual villages in the triangle BD-NL

The community Kelmis consists of the places Hergenrath , Kelmis (formerly Altenberg or Neutral-Moresnet ) and Neu-Moresnet (formerly Prussian-Moresnet). It extends in the border triangle Belgium - Netherlands - Germany in the valley of the Göhl on an area of ​​around 18.12 km². The community is in the immediate vicinity of Vaals (NL) in the north, Aachen (D) in the northeast, Raeren (B) in the southeast, Lontzen (B) in the south and Plombières / Bleyberg (B) in the west. The closest cities are Aachen (8 km) Eupen (15 km) and Lüttich / Liège (40 km) in Belgium and Maastricht (40 km) in the Netherlands.

Galmeiveilchenwiese near Kelmis

Community and population structure

As of December 31, 2013, the municipality of Kelmis, the second largest municipality in the German-speaking Community, had 10,859 inhabitants, 37.5% of whom were not of Belgian nationality.

The total population is distributed among the individual villages as follows:

• Kelmis: 5804
• New Moresnet: 2360
• Hergenrath: 2694

traffic

Plane:

• Maastricht Aachen Airport near the Dutch municipality of Beek (approx. 45 km away)
• Liège Airport (approx. 50 km away)
• Düsseldorf and Cologne / Bonn (each approx. 100 km away)

Train:

• Hergenrath station on the Liège – Aachen railway line , euregioAIXpress stop (direct connection with Aachen and Spa)

Bus:

• TEC line 396 , which connects Eupen and Vaals (stops in Kelmis and Hergenrath)
• Line 24 of the Aachener Verkehrsverbund (to which Kelmis has been a tariff since 1979), which connects Kelmis with Aachen
• Line N7, the AC-Kelmis night line

line	course	operator
24	Kelmis  (B) - picture border  - Franziskushospital  - Jewish cemetery  - Schanz  - Elisenbrunnen  - Aachen bus station	ASEAG
N7	Night express: ( Aachen Bus Station  →) Elisenbrunnen  - Karlsgraben - Schanz  - Hanbruch - Kronenberg - Preusweg - ( Preuswald  →) Bildchen Grenz - Kelmis  (B)	ASEAG
396	Vaals bus station - Gemmenich  - Moresnet  - Kelmis  - Hergenrath  - Astenet  - Walhorn  - Kettenis  - Eupen	TEC Liège-Verviers

history

On the history of the village of Kelmis

Today's Kelmis community was created on January 1st, 1977 through the merger of the former communities Neu-Moresnet, Hergenrath and Kelmis.

etymology

The name of the community is derived from the ore calamine (mainly silicate calamine at this deposit, i.e. pebble zinc ore ), which is known in this area as Kelms or Kelmes and was mined there in the early Middle Ages.

View of Kelmis

The casino pond in New Moresnet

Culture

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Kelmis

The Eyneburg in Hergenrath is one of the most important historical buildings in East Belgium. A cross-section of the development of the Kelmis community itself, its calamine cultivation and the operating company Vieille Montagne shows in an impressive way the Museum Vieille Montagne in the management building Vieille-Montagne .

folklore

Rhenish carnival is celebrated in Kelmis . a. a Rosenmontagszug and on fat Thursday the Indian move of Auw Wiever count.

dialect

The local dialect, the Kelmiser Platt, belongs to the Platdietsen language group . Various dialects in the canton of Eupen belong to the Lower Franconian and Ripuarian language groups and thus to the Limburg language area.

economy

In Neu-Moresnet there is a branch of the Heimbach Group from Düren , which came from a takeover of the Bruch & Cie. emerged. Technical textiles are manufactured there.

Sports

societies

There are two football clubs in Kelmis that are affiliated to the Belgian national football association. The RFC Union Kelmis , founded in 1923, currently plays in the 3rd Division B (third division at national level). This makes the RFCU the second highest-ranking football club in the German-speaking community of Belgium after KAS Eupen .

Sports facilities

In Kelmis there is the Prince Philippe Stadium , which can hold a maximum of 4000 spectators and where the RFC Union Kelmis plays its home games.

In a former quarry between Neu-Moresnet and Hergenrath, on the Göhl and not far from the Eyneburg , there is a sport climbing area established in 2005. It is operated by the Aachen section of the German Alpine Club . The maximum rock height is 20 m.

people

• Eugène Rixen , Bishop of Goiás in Brazil
• Jean Fryns (1910–1965), Bishop of Kindu in the Congo
• Mathieu Grosch , Member of the European Parliament and Mayor of the Kelmis municipality from 1991 to December 2012
• Gottfried John , German actor, lived in Kelmis until 2008.
• Hein Simons , singer and actor, better known by his stage name Heintje, lived with his parents in Neu-Moresnet until the 1980s.
• Jens Heppner , former German cyclist and sports director. He has lived in Kelmis since the mid-1990s and in Hergenrath since 2014
• Rolf Schnier , Skatclub "ohne 11 La Calamine", Skat world champion 2016 in Las Vegas and vice world champion with the Belgian team
• Luc Walpot , Belgian journalist and ZDF correspondent
• Nasty , Belgian beatdown hardcore band

Web links

• Website of the Kelmis community
• Kelmis and the Schmalgrafgrube
• The time: fifty houses without a state

Individual evidence

1. ↑ kelmis.be: Geography
2. ↑ Official information from the Kelmis community, obtained on February 20, 2014
3. ↑ infotec.be: Timetable line 396 ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ avv.de: Flyer on 50 years of cross-border local transport ( memento of the original from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Homepage of the RFCU Kelmis ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Felseninfo.alpenverein.de: Eyneburg climbing rock
7. ↑ Bunte: Gottfried John lives in Germany again , accessed on February 20, 2014