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608498, Collectie Stad Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience
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Full text | to Aix-la-Chapelle. LIMBURG. Route 28. 337 Duchy of Limburg, it was a flourishing and strongly f ortified town; now it has but one square and one street. In 1106 it was sacked by the Empr. Henry V, in 1633 by the Dutch, in 1675 by Louis XIV, | who blew up its outworks, and lastly by Marlborough. In 1834 nearly 40 houses were destroyed by a fire, which also did serious damage to the Church of S. George, a fine 8 aisled building containing a handsome pyramidal tabernacle adorned with statuettes, 1320, and a monument to a princess of Baden, 1672. A great deal of cheese is made in the neighbourhood. The Rly. on leaving Limburg quits the valley of the Vesdre and enters a deep cutting; after passing through two tunnels it crosses the frontier : the first Prussian Stat. is 7 kil. HerprsraaL. Passports are demanded here and taken away, they must be reclaimed at Aix-la-Chapelle where the bag- gage is also examined, unless booked for Cologne, in which case jt is searched at that terminus. The Rly. is carried over the valley of the Geule on a viaduct 351 ft. long and 26 4/4 ft. broad, formed hy 2 rows of 17 arches placed one above the other; its height in the centre is 116 ft.; at half its height, beneath the lower row of arches, is carried the high road. This construction, planned-and executed by M. F. Wittfeld, a Prussian, cost £. 60,000, and has absorbed more than 8 million bricks. After passing through 2 tunnels, the second of which, pierced through a sand hill, is 2100 ft. long, it reaches the top of an inclined plane 2 1/8 miles long, up which carriages com- ing from Aix are drawn by a stationary engine placed in a little Gothic building. From the top of the plane there is a good view of Aix-la-Chapelle; the 2 isolated summits on 1. are the Louisberg and the Salvatorsherg, while on rt., in the valley of the Wurmbach, is BorcETTe. : 18 kil. Arx-LA-CaapeLte. See Rte 46. Ommibuses to any of the hotels; fare, 3 sgr.: drosky for 2 persons with luggage; fare, 8sgr. ROUTE 29. PEPINSTER TO SPA. 12 kil. = 7 1/2 Eng. m. On leaving Pepinster the Rly. ascends the valley of the Hoégne; the scenery is very pleasing, and is enlivened by neat country-houses. Long lines of cloth-hung out in the sun indicate the staple manufacture of this neighbourhood. 4 idl. Justenvitur. Here is a warm mineral spring; not far from the Stat. is a, pretty country villa where Queen Hortense spent some time in 1810. _ 1 kil. Tarux, This village, known in history since the IX cent. |
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Source listing | Weale, W.H. James, Belgium, Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne: an entirely new guide book for travellers, 608498, Collectie Stad Antwerpen, Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience |