Genk

Genk is a city and municipality located within the Belgian province of Limburg close to Hasselt. The municipality simplest accommodates the city of Genk itself. It is one of the maximum vital industrial towns in Flanders, placed at the Albert Canal, among Antwerp and Liege. Fifty four% of the population are of overseas foundation from approximately 85 different nationalities, on the whole Italians, Turks, and Greeks. Genk in all likelihood originated as a Celtic village, and was converted to Christianity within the tenth century.

The stays of a bit wooden church courting from that duration were found inside the region. The first point out of Genk as Geneche can be observed in a report relationship from 1108, ceding the territory to the Abbey of Rolduc. Politically, Genk belonged to the County of Loon till it was annexed via the Prince-Bishopric of Liège in 1365. During a century of on-going industrialisation in addition south in Belgium, Limburg modernised most effective slowly: Genk remained unimportant and small, developing slowly to a population of two,000 round 1900. The non violent village turned into the home of landscape painters and writers consisting of Neel Doff.