Editing Heers

{{Short description|Municipality in Limburg province, Belgium}}
{{For|the hamlet with the same name in the Netherlands|Heers, Netherlands}}
{{Infobox Belgium municipality
|name             = Heers
|picture          = Vechmaal-Heers, de Sint Martinuskerk oeg32200 foto4 2012-07-01 16.51.JPG
|picture-legend   = Vechmaal: Sint Martinus church
|map              = Heers Limburg Belgium Map.svg
|map-legend       = Location of Heers in Limburg
|arms             = Heers wapen.svg
|flag             = Heers vlag.svg
|region           = {{BE-REG-FLE}}
|community        = {{BE-NL}}
|province         = {{BE-PROV-LI}}
|arrondissement   = [[Arrondissement of Tongeren|Tongeren]]
|nis              = 73022
|pyramid-date=
|0-19=
|20-64=
|65=
|foreigners=
|foreigners-date  =
|mayor            = Kristof Pirard ([[Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats|VLDumont]])
|majority         = [[Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats|VLDumont]]
|postal-codes     = 3870
|telephone-area   = 011
|web              = [http://www.heers.be/ www.heers.be]
|coordinates      = {{coord|50|45|N|05|17|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
}}
'''Heers''' ({{IPA|nl|ˈɦeːrs|-|Nl-heers.ogg}}, {{langx|li|Hiër}} {{IPA|li|ˈɦiəʀ|}}){{fix|text=tone?|date=March 2022}} is a [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] located in the [[Belgium|Belgian]] province of [[Limburg (Belgium)|Limburg]]. 

== History ==

=== Merger municipality ===
[[File:Horpmaal, de Sint Lambertuskerk foto2 2012-07-01 16.15.JPG|none|thumb|250px|Horpmaal, church: de Sint Lambertuskerk]]
The municipality of Heers was formed by several mergers. In 1971:
* Heers was merged with Batsheers, Opheers, Veulen, Gutschoven and Mettekoven.
* [[Mechelen-Bovelingen]] and Rukkelingen-Loon were merged to form Bovelingen municipality
* Heks, Horpmaal, and Vechmaal were merged to form Heks municipality
* Klein-Gelmen was merged with Gelinden, Engelmanshoven and Groot Gelmen to form Gelmen municipality

In 1977 the current municipality of Heers was formed by merging:
* Heers municipality
* Bovelingen municipality
* Heks municipality  
* Klein-Gelmen village (The rest of Gelmen was merged into the municipality of [[Sint-Truiden]]).

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070102111822/http://users.pandora.be/vswg/html/algemeen.html Site (personal) on Heers] – Description of and historical information about each of the parishes of Heers {{in lang|nl}}

{{Geographic location<!--- abbreviations per [[ISO 3166-2:BE]] --->
|Centre = Heers
|N  = [[Borgloon]]
|E  = [[Tongeren]]
|S  = [[Waremme]] ([[Liège Province|WLG]]), [[Oreye]] ([[Liège Province|WLG]])
|W  = [[Gingelom]]
|NW = [[Sint-Truiden]]
}}
{{Municipalities in Limburg}}
{{Authority control}}

[[Category:Municipalities of Limburg (Belgium)]]

{{LimburgBE-geo-stub}}