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Photo: nl:Gebruiker:Tibor, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5.Ten questions about the little church village on the hill. After every answer you get the explanation.
Valley walker 0–4 · Hill climber 5–8 · True Klimmenaar 9–10
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Little imagination needed: the village lies on top of a hill and whoever wanted to get there had to climb. The old road from Valkenburg to Heerlen climbed into the village, and visitors still do today.
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Klimmen-Ransdaal station opened on March 1, 1915, on the line between Heerlen and Schin op Geul. The building by architect George van Heukelom is now a national monument, and the Maastricht-Heerlen stopping train still stops there.
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At the beginning of 2023, Klimmen with its hamlets had around 3,110 inhabitants. A real village, not a city, but one with a church that many a city might envy.
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Around the core lie Craubeek, Retersbeek, Termaar, Weustenrade, Barrier, Overheek, a part of Heek, Dolberg, Terveurt and Koulen. Walem just doesn't belong: it used to largely fall under Schin op Geul and nowadays under Valkenburg aan de Geul.
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At the highest point of Klimmen stood a Roman burgus, a fortified watchtower overlooking the Via Belgica, the main Roman road from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Cologne. The nave of the church still contains Roman masonry from the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Nowhere else in the rural landscape of Western Europe has so much of such a burgus been preserved above ground.
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Benedictine monks from the abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims converted the old watchtower into a place of worship around 1135. This is also how the church got its name: Remigius was the patron saint of their own abbey.
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In the major Limburg reorganization of 1982, the municipality of Klimmen ceased to exist and the village was incorporated into the municipality of Voerendaal. In the Middle Ages, Klimmen belonged to the Land of Valkenburg and had its own aldermanic court.
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Klimmen is stokoud. De oudste vermeldingen liggen tussen de 10e en 12e eeuw; bronnen noemen al het jaar 968, en zeker is de bul (pauselijke oorkonde) van paus Eugenius III uit 1147 over bezittingen van de abdij Kloosterrade (Rolduc) in Klimmen. Afbeelding: het wapen van de vroegere gemeente Klimmen, met Sint-Remigius (publiek domein).
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During the Limburg Succession War, the struggle that culminated in the Battle of Worringen in 1288, the church went up in flames. In the following years, it was rebuilt, complete with vaults.
Photo: Romaine, Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
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Neutral Moresnet, the fourth country at the Three-Country Point, had around 4,600 inhabitants in 1914. That is over a thousand more than Klimmen has today. Small is therefore relative.
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