Eupen

Geschiedenis

Eupen is a city and municipality in the Belgian province of Liège, 15km from the German border, from the Dutch border and from the "High Fens" nature reserve . The town is also the capital of the Euroregion Meuse-Rhine.First mentioned in 1213 as belonging to the Duchy of Limburg, possession of Eupen passed to Brabant, Burgundy, the Holy Roman Empire and France before being given in 1815 to Prussia, which joined the German Empire in 1870. In 1919, after the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles transferred Eupen and the nearby municipality of Malmedy from Germany to Belgium.