Gulpen Wittem

Gulpen-Wittem is a municipality in the south of Dutch Limburg. The municipality has a place of ​​seventy three.38 km² and has 14,258 population. The territory of the municipality of Gulpen-Wittem has been inhabited for a long time. Around 7000 year vintage burial mounds from the time of the Band Ceramic Culture had been observed in the Vijlener Forests. The vicinity was really already cultivated in Roman times, even though strains of Roman presence are fairly rare.

The Oude Akerweg at first a Roman road leading from Maastricht to Aachen probable ran from Scheulder via the unpaved Beversbergweg to the Dorpsstraat inside the center of Gulpen and from there thru the Deken Schneiderstraat, Pinckersweg and the Gulperbergweg over the Gulperberg, and then descending thru the Bergweg connecting to the Akerweg at Partij and from there via the Gulkoelerweg to Hilleshagen, in which the road observed the course from the present day Hilleshagerweg to Vijlen. After Roman times, huge elements of the cultivated land became forested again. In the early Middle Ages, the lower areas were specially exploited; the relaxation observed inside the duration 1000 to 1300, which includes the higher plateaus.