St. Vith

St. Vith, also written Sankt Vith or Saint-Vith, is a city and municipality in the east of Belgium, in the Walloon province of Liege, and is named after Saint Vitus. German is the majority and official language, as in the rest of the German-speaking Community of Belgium. The municipality had 9,169 inhabitants in 2006 across about 147 square kilometres and includes the sub-municipalities of Crombach, Lommersweiler, Recht and Schonberg. It was an important marketplace by the 12th century and received town rights in 1350, passed from the Duchy of Luxembourg to France and then to Prussia after the Congress of Vienna, and was transferred to Belgium in 1925 under the Treaty of Versailles. As an important road and rail junction it was fought over in the 1944 Battle of the Bulge and mostly destroyed; only the Buchel Tower survives from before the war.