Lommersweiler

Lommersweiler
Lommersweiler
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Liege
District :	Verviers
Municipality :	Saint Vith
Coordinates :	50 ° 14 '  N , 6 ° 10'  E Coordinates: 50 ° 14 '  N , 6 ° 10'  E
Residents:	252 pop.
Height:	470  m
Post Code:	4780
Prefix:	080
Website:	www.st.vith.be

The Belgian town of Lommersweiler was the eponymous main town of an independent municipality until 1976 and is now a district of the municipality of St. Vith in Belgium with about 252 inhabitants in the main town (as of December 31, 2015) and 1,176 in the former municipality (as of December 31 2010).

geography

The place belongs to the German-speaking Community (a member state of the Belgian federal state) in Ostbelgien . Lommersweiler is located in the east of the Ardennes at the transition to the West Eifel near the border with Germany and lies on a ridge above the valleys of the Our and Braunlaufs at an altitude between about 370  m OP in the valley at the confluence of the two bodies of water and 510  m on the ridge.

history

A settlement of the area around Lommersweiler already in pre-Christian times by the Celts , but at the latest by the Romans is assumed, since (here too) the course of the Via Mansuerisca is assumed to be the settlement axis . So far, however, these assumptions have not been substantiated by archaeological excavations or historical sources .

The origin of the place is also in the dark. In a document from 1327 a "Theodorich von Lummerswilre" is named, who was Burgmann zu Reuland and belonged to a noble family from Lommersweiler. At that time the place belonged to the County of Vianden . In the centuries that followed, the region and thus also Lommersweiler belonged to the House of Nassau from 1405 (or 1417, different sources) and from 1433 to the Burgundian Netherlands (first House of Burgundy , Habsburg from 1477 ). In 1555 the region became part of the Spanish Netherlands and after the War of the Spanish Succession through the peace treaties of Utrecht and Rastatt (1713 and 1714) the area went to Austria and was henceforth part of the Austrian Netherlands . After the Battle of Fleurus (1794) and the victory of the French Revolutionary Army , the region was under French administration and in 1795 was assigned to the Ourthe department. On February 17, 1800, Lommersweiler became the capital and seat ( Mairie ) of the newly founded and independent local community of the same name due to a decree of the French government . In addition to the main town, it also included the villages and hamlets Alfersteg (partially), Atzerath , Breitfeld , Dreihütten , Galhausen , Heuem , Mackenbach , Neidingen , Setz , Schlierbach , Steinebrück , Weppeler and Wiesenbach . The community had 1,067 inhabitants in 1885 and 1265 in 1930.

In 1815, after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo , Lommersweiler came to Prussia ( Rhine Province ) in the German Confederation through the Congress of Vienna and, from 1871, to the German Empire . From 1816 the local community belonged to the district of Sankt Vith , which was incorporated into the district of Malmedy in 1821 (both districts in the administrative district of Aachen ). After the First World War , the Eupen-Malmedy region was initially only provisionally incorporated into Belgium in 1920 due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty and finally after the controversial referendum held in 1920 in 1925.

During the Second World War , Belgium was invaded by the German Wehrmacht in 1940 . The East Belgian territories were annexed by National Socialist Germany and remained in German hands until they were liberated as a result of the defeats and the withdrawal of German troops after the failed Ardennes offensive in the winter of 1944/45. Since then, Lommersweiler has belonged (again) to Belgium, which was recognized by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1956 through a bilateral treaty that regards the existing state borders as "immovable" .

Today the municipalities of East Belgium have a not insignificant autonomy in a number of areas within the German-speaking community in Belgium.

On January 1, 1977, the formerly independent municipality of Lommersweiler, together with the previously independent municipalities of Crombach , Recht and Schönberg, became part of the newly formed large municipality of Sankt Vith as part of the merger of Belgian municipalities .

Infrastructure and tourism

Immediately northeast of the town runs the Belgian A 27 motorway , which merges into the A 60 ( European route 42 ) Liège - Verviers - Sankt Vith - Prüm - Bitburg - Wittlich east of the border on German territory . The village and its surroundings are connected to this trunk road at the hamlet of Dreihütten via the Steinebrück / Lommersweiler exit (no. 16).

The railway line , which had been shut down for decades and has now been dismantled , ran through the town and led to the Lommersweiler separation station in the northern section of Sankt Vith. The branches separating here led as a section of the Vennbahn via Reuland to Troisvierges in Luxembourg with a connection to the Luxembourg – Spa railway or as Westeifelbahn to Germany via Bleialf (with Bleialf station ), Pronsfeld and Prüm to Gerolstein on the Eifel line .

The Eifel-Ardennes cycle path from St. Vith to Gerolstein , which also runs through Lommersweiler, was built on sections of the latter former railway line, with links to further long-distance cycle paths .

The most striking building is the parish church of St. Willibrord from 1924, which is not a listed building. There is a primary school and a number of clubs in town, the spectrum of which ranges from sports to carnival to music clubs.

Sports

The nationally most successful sports club in Lommersweiler is the volleyball club VBC Lommersweiler, which plays in the 3rd division of Belgium.

Personalities

• Bruno Thiry (* 1962), 2003 European Rally Champion, grew up in Lommersweiler

Individual evidence

1. ↑ residents of the community of ST. VITH per location. (PDF) (No longer available online.) City of St. Vith, December 31, 2015, archived from the original on February 12, 2016 ; accessed on February 12, 2016 . 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.  
2. ↑ Statistics from the municipality of St. Vith ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. official website of the city, PDF file 
3. ↑ Lommersweiler in the late Middle Ages history of the place on its homepage
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} History of the municipality of Sankt Vith ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2011 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. "History on the homepage of the city of Sankt Vith, PDF file , p. 4 ff." 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} City history of Sankt Vith Online portal of the municipality of St. Vith
6. ↑ From the chronicle of our village history of the place on the homepage
7. ↑ Municipalities in the Malmedy District Doctorate from Dr. Michael Rademacher ( University of Osnabrück ), 2006, Homepage of German History 1871–1945 (online)
8. ↑ Eifel-Ardennen-Radweg on the website of the city of Prüm
9. ↑ Railroad cycling private homepage
10. ↑ Community schools ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2011 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. Homepage of the municipality 
11. ^ Lommersweiler.net Homepage of the place
12. ↑ grenzecho.net: Bruno Thiry - the famous son of Lommersweiler ( Memento of the original from May 9, 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. , accessed March 26, 2014.