Esneux (in Walloon Esneu ) is a common French-speaking of Belgium located in Walloon region in the Province of Liege.

The common one counts at July 1st 2004 13.197 inhabitants (6.386 men and 6.811 women), for a surface of 34,08 km ².

Geography

The ground of the commune is mainly Karstique. Several Chantoir S can be observed. Speleology and climbing are applied to the Grotte Holy-Anne.

The old stone quarries of size, henceforth flooded, accommodate clubs of diving in addition.

One of most beautiful the point-of-sight on the Ourthe is with the Rock-with-Falcons (located on the commune of Neupré).

History

Esneux and the surroundings depended under the Ancien Mode on the Duché on Limbourg.

It is at the village of Fontin, located on the commune, which place had the September 18th 1794 a battles between the imperial troops and the French republicans. A fears this battle gave its name to the one of the most famous coasts of Liege-Bastogne-Liege in the common neighbor of Aywaille, the Côte of Redoute. Besides this race spends each year by the commune of Esneux.

August 6th, 1914, the 73e and 74e IH of the German imperial army shot 20 civilians and destroyed 25 houses with Esneux, at the time of the German Atrocités made at the beginning of the Great War.

Anecdote

Among the photographs brought back by the American soldiers to the release in 1944, appeared a photograph of the Château Fy. This one inspired Walt Disney for achitecture of the castle of the Beautiful-with-Wood-Door frame of Disneyland.

Localities

Amostrennes, Avionpuits, Beauregard, Crévecoeur, Fêchereux, Flagothier it Haze, Fontin-Hamay, Hony, Ham, Limoges, Mery, Montfort, Nomont-Avister, Sovereign-pre, Tilff, Tilff-Cortil, On-the-Mount.

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