Waremme

Waremme is a small city and municipality in the Walloon province of Liege, in Belgium, known in Dutch as Borgworm and in Walloon as Wareme. It lies on the River Geer, called the Jeker in Dutch, in the loess-covered Haspengouw region, and its economy rests on growing cereals and sugar beet and on the food industry. The municipality takes in the districts of Bettincourt, Bleret, Bovenistier, Grand-Axhe, Lantremange and Oleye as well as Waremme itself. Its past runs from Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement remains found nearby and a Roman road between Bavay and Cologne to the medieval hamlet of Woromia, first cited in 965 and ceded with its castle, five mills and six breweries to the Prince-Bishopric of Liege in 1078. The town was burnt more than once, including by Charles the Bold in 1468, became one of the prince-bishopric's 21 bonnes villes in the sixteenth century, and had half of the city destroyed by air raids in the Second World War. Its city hall dates from 1900 and its main church from 1881.