Montzen

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Stephanus Church (St. Etienne)

Montzen is a place with around 3000 inhabitants in the Walloon province of Liège in eastern Belgium in the Euregio Meuse-Rhine . Since the municipal merger in 1977 , Montzen has been part of the Belgian municipality of Plombières . The postcode is 4850. Neighboring towns are Lontzen , Welkenraedt and Kelmis .

history

Montzen is one of the older rural centers in the Herver Land . The first documentary mention dates back to April 21, 1076, when King Henry IV donated the bailiffs of Lontzen, Walhorn and Mesch (near Montzen) to the Marienstift in Aachen . The Hochbank Montzen was one of the five administrative centers in the Duchy of Limburg until 1795 .

tourism

Streversdorp Castle

The St. Stephanuskirche was built in 1780.

The water castle Streversdorp , whose beginnings go back to the 13th century, is worth seeing . Baron Caspar Anton van der Heyden, the Prime Minister of the Electorate of Cologne , who was later elevated to the rank of count and henceforth called himself Caspar Anton von Belderbusch , came from here. After this appointment, the vernacular referred to the noble residence as "Schloss Graf". Belderbusch Castle, which also belongs to the family and was located in the immediate vicinity of the railway facilities, was destroyed in the Second World War by a direct hit by an aerial bomb . Trout ponds for recreational anglers are now laid out next to Streversdorp Castle.

Worth mentioning is the Wasserburg von Broich, the seat of the manor of the same name before 1796 and owned by the Barons von Broich until 1913 and again since 1963.

  • ART-Pütz sculpture museum

  • Community House (Library)

  • House Broich

  • Altar of the Stephanuskirche

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The Montzenroute railway line is named after Montzen . The place had a strategically important transshipment station, which was built during the First World War in 1915 under German occupation and has been largely closed since the beginning of the 21st century.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 28 "  N , 5 ° 57 ′ 43"  E