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Eupen is the capital of German-speaking Community of Belgium and is a city and municipality in the Belgian province of Liège, 15 kilometres from the German border (Aachen), from the Dutch border (Maastricht) and from the "High Fens" nature reserve (Ardennes). The town is also the capital of the Euroregion Meuse-Rhine.
Image: Eupen Unterstadt mit der Josef Kirche und das Hotel Bosten
Image: Klötzerbahn, Eupen, 2023
Image: 63023 CLT 0022 01 Friedenskirche mit Kanzel
Image: St. Nikolaus Eupen 02
German-speaking Community of Belgium
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The German-speaking Community, also known as East Belgium, is one of the three federal communities of Belgium, with an area of 854 km2 (330 sq mi) in the Liège Province of Wallonia, including nine of the eleven municipalities of Eupen-Malmedy. The primary language of the community is German, making this the third official language in Belgium. Traditionally the community and the wider area around it forms an intersection of various local languages and/or dialects, namely Limburgish, Ripuarian and Moselle Franconian varieties. The community population numbers around 77,949 – about 7.0% of Liège Province and about 0.7% of the national total.
The Executive (government) of the German-speaking Community meets in Eupen.
1943 postcard; Nazi propaganda postmark reads Heimkehr ins Großdeutsche Vaterland ("Return to the Grand German Fatherland")
The seat of the Executive and Council of the German-speaking Community in Eupen
The Yellow municipalities are the German-Speaking community of Belgium, while the two grey municipalities (Malmedy and Weismes) were annexed from Germany after World War I as well, but natively speak French.