donderdag 9 mei 2019

Voeren - Belgium

Voeren or in French Fourons is an Dutch speaking Belgian municipality that's bordered south the province Liège and north to the Dutch province of Limburg. It's not connect to Flanders the Dutch speaking part of Belgium,  this makes Voeren an enclave. Once it was part of Liège but Voeren is transferred to the Dutch speaking province Limburg in 1962 after the determination of the language border. Belgium has an language issues for years and this municipality with around 4 thousand people gives the Belgian government headaches and even the federal government fall in 1987. The French speaking people had to speak Dutchand that give some controversy, even an political party was formed to get the area back to Liège. Nowadays it's much peacefully and quieter and the municipality is banned after the steam the Voer. The municipality comprise of six villages namely Moelingen (Mouland), 's-Gravenvoeren (Fouron-le-Comte), Sint-Martens-Voeren (Fouron-Saint-Martin), Teuven and Remersdaal (Rémerdael). The French names are in brackets. So let's take an look at the flag. 


Actually the flag is an stretched out coat of arms. For quarters with lions and those had the do with two duchies. The red lion with double tails had to do with the duchy of Limburg and in the Middle Ages the owned land in the area. The villages of Teuven and Remersdaal was part of the duchy of Limburg. That Limburg had borging to do with the current provinces of Limburg which is divided over Belgium and the Netherlands.The other villages mentioned earlier was part of the duchy of Brabant and there lion is yellow with red claws and single tail on an black background. Those colours made the Belgian national flag. Unite and divided over the years is Voeren, geographically and linguistically. This flag is about unite but no room for Liège.


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