History
Since the 11th century, two-thirds of the territory of the present municipality of Voeren was in the county of Dalhem, which was a possession of the Dukes of Brabant, and the remaining one-third in the Duchy of Limburg, which also belonged to Brabant after 1288. As such, it successively became part of the Burgundian Netherlands, the Habsburg Netherlands, and after the Dutch Revolt, part of the Spanish, later Austrian controlled Southern Netherlands. After the French occupation (1794–1815) it became part of the province of Liège until 1963 when it was transferred to the province of Limburg, and thus became part of Flanders.
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