Amercœur

Amercoeur is an administrative district of Liège city, on the right bank of the Meuse, facing Outremeuse. Formerly outside the city, the suburb is crossed by national 3 leading to Hervé and Aachen.

History

The origin of the name of Amercoeur would be a deformation of Almaric curtis of the name of a local teacher of that time. It is in the year 1252 that the name of Amercoeur appears for the first time in a Charter of Robermont. This old Bailiwick of the high middle ages included many Lordships and villages.

Exposed to a frequent that overflows the Meuse and the Ourthe, the soil is essentially composed of Earth, clay and a base of gravel, crossed by small streams which rolled down from Cornillon to feed the swamp of Outremeuse in the forming of the lands invaded by huge silty deposits.

From the thirteenth century, Amercoeur is attached to the scabinale Court of jupille, whose headquarters is located at the bridge of Amercoeur that had is head a bailiff under the bishopric of Liège.

Occupied by many breweries, whose cervois beer flowed afloat during the cattle market which was established by Erard of the Marck, Amercoeur later became the industrial district of the serge, providing until 1789 twenty thousand pieces of cloth per year.

Unfortunately located at the foot of the fortress of Chartreuse, the neighborhood was ravaged repeatedly, just as the events of Pentecost in the year 1691 where general Boufflers made watered the city with red cannon balls, thus punishing the Liégeoise resistance.

On the 27 of July 1794, the French penetrated the city to remove the insulted Austrians by the Liège population; the population is described by the general Dumouriez as being the most dangerous perhaps in Europe after that of London and Paris. before the behavior of the people of Liège, the Austrians were Avenged and destroy Amercoeur suddenly with incendiary cannonballs, which inflamed the area with a rare violence.

After these events, the inhabitants were permitted to use the Cathedral stone of St. Lambert to rebuild their homes. A Part of the excavated material of the cemetery of our lady (Notre-Dame) served to fill the excavations due to the bombing. On the 2^nd of August 1803, Bonaparte, crossed through the ruins of the suburb and granted a subsidy of three hundred thousand francs for its reconstruction. We can distinguish furthermore on the portrait of Dominique Ingres, the first Consul designate in which one can read the suburb of Amercoeur reconstruction.

Formerly dominated by the vineyards that belong to the Carthusians, the district of Amercœur was presented again in the 19th century a rustic and charming face. A project of 1823 was planning to erect a Street Basse-Wez an establishment of bath around a spring of sulphurous water which is always busy, Li flairante ewe, "stinking water", a project that doesn’t have follow up.

Property

Because of many destructions in the district, there remain only few historical monuments, except the Church of Saint-Remacle-bridge, the Court of the Prebendiers, the ex-couvent of the Sisters of hope and the Valdor.

• Bass-Wez Street, one of the oldest road of liege through the neighborhood. Formerly it was the only communication road with the Ardennes,it is commonly called "low wines" (in the lowland), Wez is the name of the old sis Hamlet at the entrance to Grivegnée dependent on the parish of Saint-Remacle.
•  Amercoeur covered market;
• Amercoeur bridge.

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