Leykaul
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Region : | Wallonia | |
Province : | Liege | |
District : | Verviers | |
Municipality : | Butgenbach | |
Coordinates : | 50 ° 31 ' N , 6 ° 13' E | |
Residents: | 37 pop. | |
Height: | 540 m |
Leykaul is a village in eastern Belgium with 37 inhabitants (2014).
The village belongs to the territory of the German-speaking community of Belgium and is right on the border with the German town of Kalterherberg . Since the municipal merger in 1977 it has belonged to Bütgenbach with its former parent municipality Elsenborn . Slate stone pits have given the place between the Rur and Breitenbach the name "Leykaul". Only one house is located on German territory and, under administrative law, belongs to the municipality of Monschau , district of Kalterherberg. Without its own church and also speaking German, it was part of the parish of Kalterherberg.
history
The state border and language border between Moselle Franconian and Rhenish Franconian dialects ran in the valley at Schwarzbach and Breitenbach from the Middle Ages. With the end of Napoleon's reign, the Rhineland fell to Prussia in 1815. At the time of the Prussians, Küchelscheid and Leykaul belonged to the Rhine Province , but were given to Belgium after the First World War by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Part of the German Reich for a few years during the Second World War , it was liberated again by the Allies in 1944.
On April 1, 1949, the eastern parts of the hamlet of Leykaul, which belongs to Kalterherberg, as well as several farms were temporarily merged with Belgium . The place previously consisted of two parts, the main town Küchelscheid and the smaller Leykaul. The German-Belgian treaty of September 1956 regulated, among other things, a rational demarcation and return of certain areas to Germany. The implementation took place on August 28, 1958 ( Federal Law Gazette II p. 262 ).
tourism
The Vennbahnradweg , which is part of the Belgian RAVeL network , now runs at the former "Kalterherberg station" of the Vennbahn line . At the foot of the hamlet is the terminus of the tourist bike- draisine route , between the Sourbrodt and Kalterherberg train stations .
Web links
- History of Küchelscheid and Leyenkaul. Bütgenbach community, accessed October 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Introduction. (No longer available online.) Bütgenbach community, archived from the original on October 18, 2014 ; accessed on May 16, 2015 (population figures as of January 3, 2014). 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.