Moelingen
Moelingen is a village and sub-municipality of the municipality of Voeren with facilities in the Belgian province of Limburg, it was an independent municipality until the municipal reorganization of 1977.
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Moelingen
Moelingen is the westernmost village of the merged municipality of Voeren. It is located in the Meuse valley on the river Berwijn. The Romanesque church tower of the Church of Our Lady dates from the 12th century and is a protected monument. The church itself shows, because it was built in different phases, a combination of all kinds of style influences. (Romanesque, Early Gothic, Neo-Gothic, Baroque) At the former town hall, along the bridge over the Berwijn, next to the village cross from 1768, there are a few border markers from the 18th century (1713), with the arms of Austria (to which present-day Belgium belonged) and the Netherlands.
Where the Berwijn flows into the Maas, the castle of Elven once stood. Now there are still some remains of the 'Schans', a fortification built by the Spaniards in 1674, and of an Austrian toll office from the 18th century. Nearby is a dam across the Maas, which is supposed to regulate the water level upstream. On the eastern side, the water powers a hydroelectric power plant. A new bridge over the Maas was constructed at this location. There used to be a fish ladder on the Berwijn. This was intended to allow fish migrating upstream to pass the small weir of a former water mill.
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Moelingen is the westernmost village of the merged municipality of Voeren. It is located in the Meuse valley on the river Berwijn. The Romanesque church tower of the Church of Our Lady dates from the 12th century and is a protected monument.
The church itself shows, because it was built in different phases, a combination of all kinds of style influences. (Romanesque, Early Gothic, Neo-Gothic, Baroque) At the former town hall, along the bridge over the Berwijn, next to the village cross from 1768, there are a few border markers from the 18th century (1713), with the arms of Austria (to which present-day Belgium belonged) and the Netherlands.
Where the river Berwijn flows Through Moelingen and finally into the Maas, the castle of Elven once stood there. Now there are still some remains of the 'Schans', a fortification built by the Spaniards in 1674, and of an Austrian toll office from the 18th century.
Nearby is a dam across the Maas, which is supposed to regulate the water level upstream. On the eastern side, the water powers a hydroelectric power plant. A new bridge over the Maas was constructed at this location. There used to be a fish ladder on the Berwijn. This was intended to allow fish migrating upstream to pass the small weir of a former water mill.