Identifier: belgiumandholland00karl (find matches)
Title: Belgium and Holland. Handbook for travellers
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipsic : K. Baedeker
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reat-uncle of thelate king Leopold), and driven out of Belgium (18th Mar., 1793). 38 M. Landen, the junction of several lines, is historicallyinteresting as the birth-place of Pepin, the majordomo of the royaldomains of the Anstrasian monarch Dagobert I. (628-38). He diedhere about the year 640, and was buried at the foot of a hill whichstill bears his name. His remains were afterwards removed to Ni-velles (p. 130), where his daughter Gertrude (d. 659) founded aconvent. His fifth lineal descendant was Charlemagne, who ascendedthe throne of the vast Franconian empire 128 years later. From Landen to Hasselt, branch-line in ^/i-V/t hr. (fares 2 fr. 20,1 fr. 70, 1 fr. 10 c). This route presents few attractions. 6V2 M. St. Trond,Flem. St. Truiden (Hdtel du Commerce), the most important station, with11,500 inhab., possesses several old churches (Notre Dame, Gothic, restored^St. Martin, Romanesque); it is the junction for the Tirlemont - Tongresline (see above). 17»^ M. Hasselt, see p. 176.
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LOUVAIN. 24. Route. 197 Fkom Landen to Gembloux (Fleurus and Charleroi)., 23 M., railway in1 hr. (fares 2 fr. 80, 2 fr. 10, Ifr. 40 c.). Stations (12 M.) Ramillies (p. 19G),Gembloux (p. 191), Fleurus, and Charleroi (see p. 183). Landen is also the junction for a line coming from Cinet, whichintersects the Namur-Liege line at Hui/ (see p. 223). Next stations Gingelom, Rosoux-Goyer, and (47 M.) Waremme,beyond which the line crosses ancient and well-preserved Romanroad, called by the country-people Route de Brunhilde, which ex-tended from Bavay (Bavacum NerviorumJ, near Mons, to Tongres.The latter was the capital of the ancient province of Hesbaye, thenatives of which were once famed for their strength and bravery,as the old proverb, Qui passe dans le Heshain est combattu Vende-mam\ suggests. — Steam-tramway to Huy., see p. 222. Beyond (53 M.) Fexhe the land of the Brabanters, a somewhatphlegmatic race of Germanic origin, is quitted, and that of the ac-tive and enterprising Celtic Wall

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