Visserweert

Illikhoven en Visserweert

province	Limburg
local community	Genuine Susteren
Area  - land  - water	2.6  km 2 2.45 km 2 0.15 km 2
Residents	160 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Coordinates	51 ° 4 ′  N , 5 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′  N , 5 ° 48 ′  E
prefix	046
Postcodes	6116
Location of Illikhoven en Visserweert in the community of Echt-Susteren

Visserweert , formerly also Viss (ch) ersweert, is a hamlet in the community of Echt-Susteren . Until 1803 it was a glory .

history

Visserweert fell under the county of Loon in the Middle Ages and belonged to the church of Elen until the 19th century . The glory Visserweert was a loan from the glory Valkenburg. In 1607 Archduke Albrecht and his wife Isabella of Spain sold the jurisdiction over Visserweert to Jean Curtius. From 1803 the glory Visserweert belonged to the municipality of Elen . When the Netherlands and Belgium were separated in 1839, the areas to the right of the Meuse became part of the Netherlands. Elen came to Belgium, but Visserweert came to the Dutch municipality of Roosteren . Since Roosteren joined Echt-Susteren in 2001 , Visserweert has also belonged to this municipality.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kerncijfers wijken en buurten 2017 Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek , accessed on July 27, 2018 (Dutch)
2. ^ Louis Baron de Crassier: 'Dictionnaire historique du Limbourg néerlandais, de la période féodale à nos jours.' in: Publications de la société historique et archéologique dans le Limbourg, 70 (1934) pp. 134–135.