Visé

Visé
	Visé
	Visé
State :	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Province :	Liege
District :	Liege
Coordinates :	50 ° 44 ′ N , 5 ° 42 ′ E Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ N , 5 ° 42 ′ E
Area :	27.99 km²
Residents:	17,812 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density:	636 inhabitants per km²
Post Code:	4600 (Visé, Lanaye, Lixhe, Richelle) ; 4601 (Argenteau) ; 4602 (Cheratte)
Prefix:	04
Mayor:	Viviane Dessart ( MR )
; Local government address :	Administration Communale ; Rue de Recollets 1 ; 4600 Visé
Website:	www.vise.be

Visé ( Dutch Wezet , German essential ) is a city in the province of Liège in the Walloon Region in Belgium .

Geographical location

The border crossing from Visé to Maastricht

Visé is located on the Meuse about 35 km west of Aachen , 20 km northeast of Liège and 15 km south of Maastricht . It is considered the northernmost city in Wallonia. The height is given as 60 to 85 m.

history

The period from the 9th century to the 13th century is considered the city's heyday.

In the course of the investiture dispute on Maundy Thursday 1106, Henry V's troops were completely defeated at the Maas bridge near Visé.

In 1330 the city fortifications were built; In 1468 the city was besieged. In 1673, Visé served the French King Louis XIV as the headquarters when he besieged Maastricht.

At the beginning of the First World War , the city was almost completely destroyed by German troops, 23 residents died.

Mining

In Visé the coal mine "Charbonnage du Hasard a Cheratte" mined; the listed parts of the daytime facilities including the Malakow tower have been preserved to this day.

politics

Viviane Dessart has been mayor of the city since December 2018, following Marcel Neven, who held this office from 1989 to 2018.

Town twinning

The French municipality of Aiguillon in Aquitaine has been the twin town of Visé since 1958 .

Attractions

Reconstruction of the 17th century town hall in the Renaissance style .
Church Collégiale Saints-Martin-et-Hadelin . It was originally donated by a daughter of Charlemagne , destroyed at the beginning of the First World War and rebuilt after 1925.
the the Fortified Position of Liège belonging Fort Eben-Emael the Albert Canal .
the listed former coal mine "Hasard-Cheratte" in the Cheratte district with a completely preserved Malakow tower from 1907

photos

Visé, street
Visé, town hall
Visé, cultural center

traffic

The city is located on the Liège – Maastricht railway line and is served hourly by intercity trains (IC) on line O (to Brussels via Liège, to Maastricht). It also has some regional bus routes operated by TEC , including to Liège.

Europastraße 25 runs parallel to the Maas, which is unfavorable in terms of urban planning and separates the city of Visé from the river as the A25 .

The most important shipping route here is not the Meuse itself (ships up to 600 tons ), but the Albert Canal , built parallel to it to the west (up to 2,000 tons). Important river ports are located in the districts of Lixhe and Argenteau.

Industry

Several cement plants (CBR, Haccourt and Portland), as well as plants for the production of concrete and concrete products.
Imerys: Extraction of minerals ( graphite , calcium carbonate , feldspar , kaolin ) for industrial purposes.

sons and daughters of the town

Johannes Walter Sluse (1628–1687), cardinal deacon
Jacques Martin (1851–1930), composer, conductor and musician
Guillaume-Marie van Zuylen (1910–2004), clergyman, Bishop of Liège

literature

Belgium , Verlag Karl Baedeker Ostfildern, 3rd edition 1998, ISBN 3-87504-417-7 , pp. 393-394.
John Horne, Alan Kramer: German war atrocities 1914. The controversial truth. From the English by Uwe Rennert. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2004.

Web links

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

Wikisource: Visé in the Topographia Westphaliae (Mathäus Merian) - sources and full texts

Website of the city of Visé

Individual evidence

↑ mapywig.org ( Memento from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

[1] ywig.org ( Memento from April 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive )