Kerkrade

Kerkrade is a metropolis and a municipality inside the southeast of Limburg, the southernmost province of the Netherlands. It paperwork a part of the Parkstad Limburg agglomeration. Kerkrade is the western half of of a divided town; it became part of the German town of Herzogenrath till the Congress of Vienna in 1815 drew the present day Dutch-German border and separated the towns.

The history of Kerkrade is closely related with that of the adjacent town of Herzogenrath, simply across the German border. Herzogenrath began as a agreement, referred to as Rode, close to the river Worm within the eleventh century. In 1104 Augustinian priests founded an abbey, referred to as Kloosterrade, to the west of this agreement. It became referred to as 's-Hertogenrode or 's Hertogenrade after the duchy of Brabant took manage over the area in French it turned into known as Rolduc. As is the case for many parts of the Southern Netherlands, the area modified fingers numerous times in the previous few centuries.