Lemiers

Lemiers City of Aachen
Coordinates :	50 ° 47 '  N , 6 ° 0'  E
Postal code :	52074
Area code :	0241

Lemiers

province	Limburg
local community	Vaals
Area  - land  - water	1.62  km 2 1.62 km 2 0 km 2
Residents	705 (Jan. 1, 2018)
Coordinates	50 ° 47 '  N , 6 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '  N , 6 ° 0'  E
Important traffic route
prefix	043
Postcodes	6291, 6294-6295
Location of Lemiers in the municipality of Vaals

Lemiers is a village on the border between Germany and the Netherlands . The larger part of the village belongs to the municipality of Vaals in the Dutch province of Limburg , the smaller part in turn belongs to the Laurensberg district within the city of Aachen in the southwest of North Rhine-Westphalia . Lemiers has a total of about 1200 inhabitants.

N278 in Lemiers

11th century chapel

The Lemiers Church

location

The Dutch part of Lemiers in the Limburg also dialect Lemieësj and locals frequently Oud-Lemiers (for Alt-Lemiers called), bordered to the north by the district of Aachen Orsbach , but the car only on the German side along the snow mountain to reach is. Another neighboring town that can only be reached via the Dutch side is the village of Vijlen . Large parts of the state border consist of a stream, the Senserbach , a tributary of the Göhl . The residents can only reach the neighboring country via a pedestrian bridge. The N278 runs through the Dutch part of Lemiers from Aachen via Vaals to Maastricht .

history

An army road from Roman times led through the center of the village and suggests an early settlement. There is also an old hall church , a chapel from around 1100, which is considered to be the oldest existing church in the Netherlands. The part of Lemiers on the German side also belonged to the westernmost part of the Aachen Empire in the late Middle Ages , which can still be traced today using the boundary stones, the so-called eagle stones because of the engraved Aachen heraldic animal. This is why the Aachener Landgraben ran along this route, coming from the Senserbach and bending from Mamelis up to Orsbach.

Attractions

Lemiers Castle

• The small chapel on Heerweg from the 11th century , restored inside and out and decorated with modern paintings since 1978. The interior decoration is by Hans Truijen .
• The Castle Lemiers be visited privately owned and only from the outside.

Personalities

• Otto von Pelser-Berensberg (1857–1935), German-Dutch mining entrepreneur
• Carl Rhoen (1822–1899), German surveying engineer, building contractor and publicist

literature

• JF van Agt: Lemiers in Zuid-Limburg. Vaals, Wittem en Slenaken , Staatsuitgeverij, Den Haag (1983, ndl.), Online
• A. van Berkum: Het zaalkerkje van Oud-Lemiers in Publications de la Societe Historique et Archeologique dans le Limbourg (1975, ndl.)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2018 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on August 30, 2018 (Dutch)
2. ↑ Eagle stones Lemiers and Mamelis, photo no. 18 and 19