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Due to the route of the now defunct railway, six exclaves of Germany, completely surrounded by Belgian territory, as well as one counter-enclave, were created. Today five German enclaves remain surrounded by Belgian territory, consisting of the village Mützenich as well as parts of the districts of Monschaus and Roetgens. [3]
In 1949, it was split into two enclaves when Germany ceded the roads to Belgium; [15] in 1958, Belgium returned the east–west road and also ceded the center section of the current enclave to Germany. Rückschlag 0.016 4.0 Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia state – Aachen district – Monschau town) Belgium (Liège province – Eupen municipality)
In 1949, it was split into two enclaves when Germany ceded the roads to Belgium; [24] in 1958, Belgium returned the east–west road and also ceded the centre section of the current enclave to Germany. Rückschlag 0.016 Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia state – Aachen district – Monschau town) Belgium (Liège province – Eupen municipality)
Originally, several German exclaves enclosed by Belgian territory were planned. These enclaves still exist, as the route of the Vennbahn railway is Belgian territory and thus divides the populated places west of it from the rest of the German territory. These places are:
This created six German exclaves in Belgium, of which five still exist. [1] In May 1940, the Eupen-Malmedy area was re-annexed by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler, and the area remained again part of Germany until 1945 when the area was returned to Belgium, making Münsterbildchen an exclave again. [2]
The border between the modern states of Belgium and Germany has a length of 136 km (85 mi). [6] [a] The border runs between the Belgian region of Liege and the German regions of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. It runs from the Germany-Belgium-Luxembourg tripoint to the Germany-Belgium-Netherlands tripoint.
Six of these Dutch enclaves are located within the largest Belgian exclave, and a seventh in the second-largest Belgian exclave. An eighth Dutch exclave is located near Ginhoven [ nl ] . During the First World War , this situation meant that the Imperial German Army could not occupy these parts of Belgium without crossing the Netherlands, which ...
The Executive (government) of the German-speaking Community meets in Eupen.. The German-speaking Community (German: Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft (Belgiens), pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃˌʃpʁaːxɪɡə ɡəˈmaɪnʃaft ˈbɛlɡi̯əns], DG), [a] also known as East Belgium (German: Ostbelgien [ˈɔstˌbɛlɡi̯ən] ⓘ), [2] [b] is one of the three federal communities of Belgium, [3] with an area ...