Eupen

Eupen, a manufacturing town of Rhenish Prussia, in a beautiful valley on the Vedre, close to the Belgian frontier, and 12 miles by rail S. of Aix-la-Chapelle. It has flourishing woollen manufactures, besides dye-works, machine-shops, breweries, &c. It owes its prosperity chiefly to French refugees, who settled here after the peace of Lunéville (1801); in 1814 it came from Limburg to Prussia. Pop. (1875) 14,895; (1890) 15,445, almost all Catholics.