Right (Saint Vith)

Law
Law
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Liege
District :	Verviers
Municipality :	Saint Vith
Coordinates :	50 ° 20 ′  N , 6 ° 3 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′  N , 6 ° 3 ′  E
Residents:	1,336 pop.
Post Code:	4780
Prefix:	080
Website:	www.st.vith.be

Recht is a town in the German-speaking Community of Belgium and part of the municipality of Sankt Vith . Law has 1,336 inhabitants in the local community (information as of December 31, 2015).

geography

Right is the furthest west of the municipality of St. Vith and the entire canton. The village is relatively isolated in a sparsely populated region. The surrounding area is characterized by agricultural grassland and in the wider area by extensive forests. The Rechterbach , a left tributary of the Amel , flows west of the town center in a northerly direction. About two and a half kilometers east of the town center is the Kaiserbaracke industrial park , right at the exit of Autobahn 27 . On the right was the Vielsalm – Born railway line , which ended in 1944.

history

Sankt Adelgund in law

The name of the village was first mentioned in 678. From the 14th century, Recht formed its own dairy within the St. Vith rule.

Lady Chapel

Right was shaped by the processing of blue stone from the 17th to the beginning of the 20th century. The stonemasons ensured an economic boom in the village. In the process, Recht gained national recognition through the Rechter Blaustein . This bluish slate was first mined there in surface mining and from 1880 in underground mining. Before the First World War , the mine on the south-eastern outskirts was exhausted and closed. Since May 18, 2007 it has been open again as a visitor mine.

Right was an independent municipality until the Belgian municipal reform in 1977, which also included the eastern village of Born , which is now part of Amel.

Attractions

Bakehouse

Sheep bridge

Among the protected cultural monuments in law include the historic sheep bridge over the legal Erbach, erected around 1840 Backhaus and the Lady Chapel from the 18th century. The Sankt Adelgund Church was built in 1925 and contains historical elements of a chapel mentioned as early as 1496; its quarry stone tower with onion-shaped spire dates from 1771.

Web links

• Website village law

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. ↑ Description of the slate tunnel