Town of Limbourg on the Vesdre

The town of Limbourg on the Vesdre (1749)

Limbourg, now a little town in the Belgian province of Liège, once was the capital of the Duchy of Limburg. The core of the city is on top of the hill, looking down upon Dolhain in the valley. Dialectwise Limbourg is walloonspeaking, while the dialects in Balen are Limburgish-Ripuarian transition dialects.

Scanned detail from Planche VI annexed to "Claire Lemoine Isabeau & Etienne Hélin, Cartes inédites du pays de Liège au XVIIIe siècle", 1980, Crédit communal, 80 pp + IX large size maps.
This map: "Carte manuscrite de la rive droite de la Meuse à hauteur de Liège, et de la vallée de la Vesdre", attribuée aux ingénieurs géographes français, 1749, moitié est de la planche II du "Mémoire détaillé du païs de Limbourg" par le chevalier de Soupire, Paris, Arsenal, ms. 4748

On modern maps

Details scanned from Belgian Survey map 1:25.000, sheet "43/5-6 Limbourg-Eupen", édition 2 of 1976

Limburg XVIth c. (Remacle Fusch)

scanned from p. 17 in: Arsène Buchet, Monographie historique de Goé-lez-Limbourg, première partie, 2me édition, 1961, Verviers, G. Leens, 176 pp

Limburg, the ruins of the castle in 1829

scanned from "Pl. X" in Joseph Tisquen, "Histoire de la ville de Limbourg, tome II", 1908, Verviers, Péguenne, 327 + iii pp + planches IX - XIII

The town of Limbourg is incidentally called

Limbourg-sur-Vesdre (cf. the river "Vesdre", "Weser " in German and in Dutch),
sometimes Limbourg-Dolhain (since it has two parts: "ville haute" = Limbourg, "ville basse" = Dolhain)

Effective Jan. 1th 1977 Limbourg absorbed the municipalities of Bilstain and Goé (Big municipal merger act, KB 17-9-1975, ratified: Law 30-12-1975)

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