History of the German-speaking Community The history of the
Belgian German-speaking region has many episodes, and as far
back as natives of this region can remember, it has been
influenced several times due to its borders. Indeed, the border
between the ancient Roman city-states of Cologne and Tongeren
passed through the region in the Roman era. Until 1794, date of
the fall of the « Ancien Regime », the North of the present
German-speaking region, called the Eupener Land, largely
belonged to the duchy of Limbourg, and the South, called the
Belgian Eifel was mainly connected with Luxembourg. As to the
villages of Manderfeld and Schönberg, they belonged to the
ancient electorate of Trier. In the course of 1794-1795, took
over the Austrian Netherlands and thus the territory of the
current German-speaking Community. When the European map was
redrawn during the Congress of Vienna in 1815, after the fall of
Napoleon, the Eupener Land, the Eifel and a part of the ancient
abbey of Stavelot-Malmedy were linked to the