Hergenrath

Hergenrath or Hergenraedt (Standard Dutch: Hergenraat; Limburgish: Herjent) is a village in Belgium. It is located in the municipality of Kelmis in Liège Province, part of Wallonia. It is also part of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. It had 2,694 inhabitants as of 2013.

A local festival in Hergenrath

Hergenrath was historically part of the Duchy of Limburg, one of the provinces of the Burgundian Netherlands. A dialect of German is spoken in Hergenrath, but the duchy it was part of was multilingual, with Dutch, French, and German dialects spoken. The area was annexed by France at the end of the 18th century, then awarded to Prussia by the Congress of Vienna, and became part of Belgium after World War I. It is now part of the Belgian Liège Province and forms part of the German-speaking Community of Belgium.[1]

References
  1. Alfred Bertha: Hergenrath: Eine Dorfchronik. GEV, Eupen 1996, ISBN 90-5433-077-5.
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