'New Moresnet') is a village and sub-municipality of Kelmis in the German-speaking community of the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.
The village was founded as Prussian-Moresnet (German: Preußisch-Moresnet) as part of the Lower Rhine Province.
[3] Dony founded the Vieille Montagne mine in the municipality, and became Europe's largest producer of zinc.
[5] In 1816, a compromise was reached at the Aachen Treaty [nl]: the village of Moresnet was awarded to the Netherlands, Kelmis and the zinc mine became Neutral Moresnet, a Dutch–Prussian condominium, and the remainder was awarded to Prussia as Prussian-Moresnet.
[1] On 28 June 1919, all three parts were awarded to Belgium by the Treaty of Versailles,[6] and Prussian-Moresnet was renamed Neu-Moresnet.