Chênée

Chênée (in Walloon Tchinnêye ) is a section of the Belgian city of Liege located in Walloon region in the Province of Liege.

It was a commune with whole share before the fusion of the communes of 1977.

The name Chênée surely comes from the word Chênaie , the bringing together in is all the more easy as the blazon of Chênée, with its 3 rhombuses, represents sheets of oak.

The existence of the city is attested for the first time at the 12th century in a charter, under name Kesneies . But it is easy to believe that houses and trade were at this place already time of our ancestors the Gallic ones. With the confluence of the Vesdre and Ourthe, the position of Chênée in fact a point of passage quasi obliged for many reasons.

Formerly part of the bailliage of Jupille, Chênée was integrated into the Principauté of Liege only starting from 1266 at the time of the gift by the bishop of Verdun of the baillage of Jupille with Henri de Gueldre then prince-bishop of Liege. It was set up in commune under the French mode. It was integrated in 1977 into the town of Liege, at the time of the policy of fusion of the communes.

The name of this city is also attached to the Verre, that is with the existence as of the end of the XVIIIe century with the presence of a Verrerie (the Grandchamps glassmaking specialized in the clothes industry of bottle for the water of Spa)

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