Sint-Pieters-Voeren

Sint-Pieters-Voeren is the smallest nucleus of the municipality of Voeren in the province of Limburg in Belgium on the banks of the Voer, has about 250 inhabitants and 512 hectares. The Voer River that gave its name to the municipality is born there. It has the nuclei of Zwaan, Rulen, Drink and Paerds.Sint-Pieters-Voeren was a fief of the Country of Dalhem until in 1242 the nobleman Daniel de Voeren joined the Teutonic Order and gave the Order his alou that more or less coincided with the territory of Sint-Pieters-Voeren. It became a free lordship of the Holy Roman Empire that depended on the commandery of Alden Biesen. In that same year, a fortification was built there, of which the first mention dates back to 1320. She gradually became a true commander of the Teutonic Order. The current building dates from the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was expropriated in the French Revolution and changed ownership often, until in 1893 the De Potesta de Waleffe acquired the rather ruinous complex. They restored it with many changes to adapt it to the taste of the weather.

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