Editing Visé

{{Short description|Municipality in Liège Province, Belgium}}
{{Distinguish|Vise (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox Belgium municipality
|name=Visé
|native_name={{native_name|wa|Vizé}}
|namenl = Wezet
|picture= Visé, straatzicht2 foto1 2010-07-11 11.26.JPG
|picture-legend=
|map=Visé Liège Belgium Map.svg
|map-legend= Location of Visé in Liège province
|arms=Armoiries Visé.svg
|flag=Vise flag 3.svg
|region={{BE-REG-WAL}}
|community={{BE-FR}}
|province={{BE-PROV-LG}}
|arrondissement=[[Liège administrative Arrondissement|Liège]]
|nis=62108
|pyramid-date
|0-19=
|20-64
|65
|foreigners=
|foreigners-date
|mayor=Viviane Dessart ([[Mouvement Réformateur|MR]])
|majority=[[Mouvement Réformateur|MR]] - [[Parti Socialiste (Belgium)|PS]]
|parties=[[Mouvement Réformateur|MR]]<br />[[Socialist Party (Belgium)|PS]]<br />[[Centre Démocrate Humaniste|cdH]]<br />[[Ecolo]]
|seats='''25'''<br/>11<br/>10<br/>3<br/>1
|sections-name=Visé, [[Lanaye]], [[Lixhe]], [[Richelle]], [[Argenteau]], [[Cheratte]]
|sections-postal=4600<br />4600<br />4600<br />4600<br />4601<br />4602
|postal-codes=4600-4602
|telephone-area=04
|web=[http://www.vise.be/ www.vise.be]
|coordinates = {{coord|50|44|N|05|42|E|region:BE|display=inline,title}}
}}

'''Visé''' ({{IPA|fr|vize|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Manestra-Visé.wav}}; {{langx|nl|Wezet}}, {{IPA|nl|ˈʋeːzɛt}}; {{langx|wa|Vizé}}) is a [[City status in Belgium|city]] and [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] of [[Wallonia]], located on the river [[Meuse]] in the [[Liège Province|province of Liège]], [[Belgium]].

The municipality consists of the following [[Deelgemeente#Belgium|districts]]: [[Argenteau]], [[Cheratte]], [[Lanaye]], [[Lixhe]], [[Richelle]], and Visé.

In the north-east (on the eastern bank of the Meuse) the area of the municipality extends up to the village of [[Moelingen]] in the [[Limburg (Belgium)|Limburg]]ian [[Municipalities of Belgium|municipality]] of [[Voeren]], while in the north-west (on the western bank of the Meuse) it extends  up to the border between Belgium and the [[Netherlands]] (on the other side of which the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] municipality of [[Maastricht]] is situated).

The city of Visé is located in a distance of some 20&nbsp;km (12,4 miles) north eastern of Belgian [[Liège]] city and of some 15&nbsp;km (9,3 miles) southern of the most southern [[Netherlands|Dutch]] city of [[Maastricht]].

In addition to the Meuse, the [[Albert Canal]] also passes through this town.

==History==
The Germans entered Belgium on 4 August 1914, and entered Visé that day as part of the opening movements of the [[Battle of Liège]].  A small group of Belgian [[Gendarmerie (Belgium)|gendarmes]] opposed the advancing Germans and two of their number, Auguste Bouko and Jean-Pierre Thill, were killed in the action becoming the first Belgian casualties of [[World War I]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arquebusiers.be/1914-bouko-thil.htm|title=Les gendarmes Auguste Bouko et Jean-Pierre Thill, premiers héros belges de 1914|first=Marc|last=Poelmans|website=Arquebusiers |access-date=18 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830142309/http://www.arquebusiers.be/1914-bouko-thil.htm|archive-date=30 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> On 7 August, in the Lixhe section of the town, the German 90th Infantry Regiment killed eleven civilians and destroyed eleven houses. By 17 August 1914, forty-two civilians were killed, and 586 out of the village's 840 houses had been destroyed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tixhon |first1=Axel |title=Villes martyres |date=2014 |publisher=Presses Universitaires de Namur |location=Namur, Belgium |isbn=978-2-87037-848-9 |page=64}}</ref>

The Lixhe part of the town was also the site of one of Belgium's ninety eastern-frontier advanced-warning posts (''postes d'alerte de la frontière est''), aimed at preventing a German invasion in 1939 – its number was "PA 0". {{cn|date=October 2021}} The [[coal mine of Hasard de Cheratte]] was dug in Cheratte and exploited between 1850 and 1977.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Visé - Hôtel de Ville 04.JPG|Visé town hall
File:Vise-Wezet.jpg|City view from the west bank of the [[Meuse]]
Image:Visé, centre culturel foto3 2010-07-11 11.39.JPG|Cultural centre in Visé
File:Visé, église Saint Martin 62108-CLT-0002-01 foto8 2014-10-19 12.24.jpg|Church (Église Saint Martin) in Visé
File:62108-CLT-0005-01 Kasteel Saroléa Cheratte.jpg|Saroléa castle at Cheratte
File:Cheratte-Hauteurs, watertoren in straatzicht foto4 2014-10-19 13.00.jpg|Cheratte-Hauteurs: watertower
File:Lanaye, zicht op het stadsdeel vanaf Eijsden foto2 2017-03-25 11.16.jpg|View to the Lanaye from [[Eijsden]]
File:Canal Albert Lanaye-30aug2008.jpg|[[Albert Canal]] at Lanaye
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[List of protected heritage sites in Visé]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline}}

{{Geographic location
|Centre = Visé
|N  = [[Maastricht]] ([[Netherlands|NL]]-[[Limburg (Netherlands)|LI]])
|NE = [[Eijsden-Margraten]] ([[Netherlands|NL]]-[[Limburg (Netherlands)|LI]])
|E  = [[Voeren]] ([[Limburg (Belgium)|VLI]])<br/>[[Dalhem]]
|SE = [[Blegny]]
|S  = [[Liège]]
|W  = [[Bassenge]]<br/>[[Oupeye]]
|NW = [[Riemst]] ([[Limburg (Belgium)|VLI]])
}}
{{Municipalities in Liège}}
{{Authority control}}

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[[Category:Cities in Wallonia]]
[[Category:Belgium–Netherlands border crossings]]
[[Category:Municipalities of Liège Province]]
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