MORESNET AND HIS RAILWAY BRIDGE.

Video and music: Harry Winthagen. Music recorded in BM-Studio Lanaken.
The Viaduct of Moresnet, also known as Montzenroute or the Geul Valley bridge is a railway bridge above and on the southern side of the village of Moresnet, within the municipality of Plombières, close to the three-way Belgian frontier with Germany and the Netherlands. It is a Truss bridge with a maximum height above the valley floor of around 52 metres and a length of 1,107 metres.
The Geul Valley bridge was built during the First World War, at a time when, since 1914, Belgium had been under German military occupation. It was built to support the strategic objective of being able to move troops and artillery rapidly between Aachen and Antwerp. During the early years of the twenty-first century the bridge was extensively reconstructed and restored.