Moelingen, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (French name Mouland, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) is a village in the

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Voeren Voeren (; ) is a Flemish Dutch-speaking municipality with facilities for the French-speaking minority, located in the Belgian province of Limburg. Bordering the Netherlands to the north and the Wallonia region's Liège Province () to the sou ...

, which is part of the province of Limburg in

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

. Until 1977 Moelingen was a municipality of its own. In that year it became part of the Voeren municipality. In this village, like in all of the Belgian (as well as the neighbouring

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

) province of Limburg, predominantly "Limburgs" is spoken, a Low Frankish dialect, closely related to

Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...

Geography

Moelingen is the westernmost of the six villages that together form the Voeren municipality It is located in the valley of the

Meuse The Meuse ( , , , ; wa, Moûze ) or Maas ( , ; li, Maos or ) is a major European river, rising in France and flowing through Belgium and the Netherlands before draining into the North Sea from the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. It has a t ...

river and on the river Berwinne (Berwijn), which, a little further westward, flows into the Meuse. Further westward, across the Meuse river, the southern end of the Caestert Plateau (part of the

Mount Saint Peter Mount Saint Peter (French: ''Montagne Saint-Pierre''; Dutch: ''Sint-Pietersberg''), also referred to as Caestert Plateau, is the northern part of a plateau running north to south between the valleys of the river Geer to the west, and the Meuse t ...

) is situated, as well as the village of Lieze (in French "Lixhe"), which is part of the Wallonian Wezet (in French "Visé") municipality. On its north side, Moelingen abuts the Belgian border with the Netherlands, just south of , a hamlet in the Dutch municipality of

Eijsden-Margraten Eijsden-Margraten (; ( li, Èèsjde-Mergraote) is a municipality situated in the very south of the Netherlands. There it is located in the southeastern part of the province of Limburg. This municipality was formed in 2011 from the former municipa ...

. Withuis is partly situated on the Belgian side of the border, so that it once partly belonged to the former municipality of Moelingen and by now partly belongs to the municipality of Voeren. Also on its west and its east side Moelingen more or less abuts the Belgian border with the Netherlands, as it is situated in a peak in this border. As a result, on its northeast side its neighbouring place is

Mesch Mesch (; li, Misj ) is a village in the Dutch province of Limburg. It is located in the municipality of Eijsden-Margraten, quite near to the Netherlands' the southerly border with Belgium, on the other side of which the neighbouring village of Mo ...

, an ancient village in the municipality of

. Further on its east side (behind the frontier heading northwards again) its neighbouring place is Gravenvoeren, more or less the main village of the Voeren municipality. To the south Moelingen is bordering the municipality of

Visé Visé (; nl, Wezet, ; wa, Vizé) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, located on the river Meuse in the province of Liège, Belgium. The municipality consists of the following districts: Argenteau, Cheratte, Lanaye, Lixhe, Richelle, ...

Sights

*Our-Lady-In-Heaven Church in Moelingen has a 14th-century Gothic nave and a Romanesque tower from the 12th century, but the stucco vaults were the result of reconstruction in 1715. *The old bridge across the Berwinne was built in 1768.

History

Moelingen was formerly part of Dalham County (Graafschap Dalhem), once an independent principality, but after 1239 a county under the

Duchy of Brabant The Duchy of Brabant was a State of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries, part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Neth ...

. The village was largely destroyed in 1914 during the German invasion of World War I. When it was rebuilt after the war, the streets were widened and the plaza enlarged. Until World War II the village was mainly agricultural, but since then it has become increasingly urban.

Originating from Moelingen

Léon Semmeling Léon Joseph Semmeling (Moelingen (Mouland), 4 January 1940) is a retired Belgian footballer. During his career he played for R. Standard de Liège. He earned 35 caps for the Belgium national football team, and participated in the 1970 FIFA ...

(1940), football player and coach

Otherwise related

Marcel Kerff Marcel Kerff (2 June 1866 – 7 August 1914) was a Belgian cyclist who participated in the 1903 Tour de France, where he finished sixth. At the age of 48, after the German invasion of Belgium at the beginning of the First World War Worl ...

, (Maartensvoeren, 1866 - Moelingen, 1914) cyclist; (later on hung by invading Germans during World War I. There is a monument in Moelingen to him and all Belgian cyclists who died in that war).

Notes

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