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Sankt Vith municipality, province Li ge, Belgium.
Municipal flag of Saint-Vith - Image by Arnaud Leroy May 7, 2005.
The town of St. Vith in French Saint-Vith; 9,190 inhabitants on 1 January 2007 14.692 hectares, part of the German Community is the capital of the Belgian Eifel Sankt-Vith The municipality is made since 1976 of the former municipalities of Saint-Vith Crombach, Lommersweiler, Recht and nberg Sch.
No prehistoric relic, Celtic and Roman were found on the current municipal area of St. Vith is therefore believed that the region was without permanent establishment crossing The two main roads through there related Cologne in Reims north-south and two Pr m abbeys Malmedy and east-west monk Remacle y fonda an Abbey in 648; in the 12th century, Father Wibald 1098-1158 obtained the transfer of Martyr Vitus Vitus Guy relics gave its name to the village of St. Vith, which developed around the abbey about 900 St Vitus, said he was martyred in the 4th century, was invoked against epilepsy and St. Vitus dance, microbial nervous disease now known as chorea.
In the 13th century, Saint-Vith was an important market, owned by the Duchy of Luxembourg 1350, Johann Valkenburg Montjoie increased the castle and built a city wall with defense towers and Sankt Vith conferred the title of town and the right to bear arms after the death of Valkenburg-Montjoie in 1352, the area of Sankt-Vith was ruled by the counts of Vianden for the next four centuries, the city became an economic, administrative and military Unfortunately, the city was regularly damaged by Blazes, wars and epidemics; in the middle of the 14th century, the plague epidemics that spread throughout Europe almost killed all the inhabitants of St. Vith.
As part of the Duchy of Luxembourg and therefore the Spanish Netherlands, Sankt Vith was often plundered during the 16 and 17 centuries of war in 1632, during the Thirty Years War, the Dutch troops seized and looted the city ; the plague hit the city again at the end of the war in 1689, King Louis XIV of France, at war with the Holy Roman Empire and the Netherlands, ordered the demolition of all border fortresses taken the enemy, including Sankt Vith the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 conferred Luxembourg the grand Duchy of Austria and the peace of Aix in 1748 was the beginning of a peaceful period in Sankt Vith leather industry developed Sankt Vith in the reign of Maria Theresia.
In June 1794, the troops of the French Republic won the battle of Fleurus and occupied Belgium The feudal system was abolished and St. Vith became a municipality and the capital of a canton included in the district of Malmedy and the department Ourthe Napol After the fall of the Vienna Congress joined the canton of Malmedy, including Sankt Vith, in Rhenish Prussia, in the administrative division of Aachen life improved in Sankt Vith, where the railway is happened in 1887.
After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles reincorporated the Eastern Townships Eupen and Malmedy in Belgium They were reintroduced to the Third Reich in May 1940 In December 1944, the last against attack Battle of the Bulge severely hit German Sankt Vith fighting in the nearby town began on December 17; 7th Armored Division received the following Presidential Citation.
Under the authority vested in me as President of the United States and as commander in chief of the armed forces of the United States, I received it today.
QUOTE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL UNIT army Heroism EXTRAORDINARY CONTROL B 7TH ARMORED DIVISION COMBAT.
Combat Command B 7th Armored Division, composed of the following units and Headquarters Company; 17 tank battalion; 31 tank battalion; 23d Battalion armored infantry; 38th Armored Infantry Battalion; 87th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron troop least D; 275th Armored Field Artillery Battalion; 434th Armored Field Artillery Battalion; 965th Field Artillery Battalion; 168th Combat Engineer Battalion; 1st Platoon, Company F, 423d Infantry Platoon 3 modified the Department of Defense permanent order 032-01, dated February 1, 1999; Company B, 33d Battalion of the Armored Engineer; and A Company, Tank Destroyer 814th Battalion SP, is cited for outstanding performance of duty in action from 17 to 23 December 1944 inclusive in St Vith, Belgium Combat Command B, 7th Armored Division, was subjected to repeated tanks and infantry attacks that grew in intensity as the German forces tried to destroy stubborn defenses that deny them the use of key communications center in St Vith the second day, the sides were constantly threatened by forces enemy that had bypassed the Saint-Vith and pushed far back in an effort to encircle the command of Salm the attacking forces have been repeatedly rejected by the gallant troops rose from their foxholes and fought in fierce hand to hand combat to stop the penetration and inflict heavy casualties on the numerically superior enemy As the ac control ontinue to deny the important center of the road and railway St Vith the Germans any offensive lost its initial momentum and managed pply columns are capitalized if by 21 December, the German calendar was so disturbed that the enemy was forced to divert a body in the capture of St. Vith Under the extreme pressure of overwhelming force, this order, which was held for 6 days the Saint-Vith so bravely, was ordered to withdraw to the west of the Salm their epic stand without prepared defenses and despite heavy losses, Combat Command B 7th Armored division inflicted crippling losses and imposed far behind the enemy by a master and grimly determined defense in accordance with the most highest traditions of the United States army.
The Germans occupied Sankt Vith, which was subjected to air raids on 24 and 25 December About 90 of the city was destroyed, 153 civilians and 1,000 soldiers were killed Reconstruction of the city, on the same site, has was completed in the 1960s B chel Tower, built in the 14th century and remodeled in 1961, is the only remnant of the historic city.
The municipal flag St. Vith is red-white-red divided vertically 1 2 1, with the white band charge of lion municipal coat.
Aen under communal Arms Belgium Commons Walloon, Brussels' and German w2v03a municipal arms of Sankt Vith, D silver lion gules, forked tail, crowned d or, arm and lampass azure silver lion gules two or tails crowned armed and blue were adopted by the City Council February 24, 1977 confirmed by the executive of the German Community, June 8, 1979 and published in the Belgian Official Gazette September 12, 1979 the old arm of Saint- Vith, langued adopted by City Council October 4, 1924, confirmed by Royal decree 3 July 1925 and published in the Belgian Gazette municipal 9-10 November 1925, were Valkenburg Limburg arm with the Limburg silver lion lion reds with two tails crowned and armed or as Servais svm55 nobles Valkenburg Valkenburg be descendants of nobles Heinsberg, who used a silver lion on a shield red, or Limburg Dukes, who used to a new lion on a silver field The earliest known use of the lion with two tails dates back to 1342 on a form of joint Jean Johann Valkenburg Valkenburg in the text above Valkenburg is now the city of Valkenburg aan de Geul in the Dutch province of Limburg, with a different coat of arms, always supported by two lions with a forked tail.
Arnaud Leroy Pascal Vagnat Ivan Know April 20, 2008.
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