place

Mount Saint Peter

Geography of MaastrichtHills of South Limburg (Netherlands)Landforms of Limburg (Belgium)Mountains and hills of FlandersMountains and hills of Liège Province
Mountains and hills of the NetherlandsPlateaus of EuropeVisé
Canal Albert Lanaye 30aug2008(detail)
Canal Albert Lanaye 30aug2008(detail)

Mount Saint Peter (French: Montagne Saint-Pierre; Dutch: Sint-Pietersberg), also referred to as Caestert Plateau, is the northern part of a plateau running north to south between the valleys of the river Geer to the west, and the Meuse to the east. The plateau runs from Maastricht in the Netherlands, through Riemst in Belgian Limburg almost to the city of Liège in Belgium, thus defining the topography of this border area between Flanders, Wallonia and the Netherlands. The name of the hill, as well as the nearby village and church of Sint Pieter and the fortress of Sint Pieter, refers to Saint Peter, one of the Twelve Apostles.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Mount Saint Peter (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Mount Saint Peter
Poppelmondeweg, Maastricht

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Mount Saint PeterContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 50.814444444444 ° E 5.685 °
placeShow on map

Address

Poppelmondeweg

Poppelmondeweg
6212 NA Maastricht
Limburg, Netherlands
mapOpen on Google Maps

Canal Albert Lanaye 30aug2008(detail)
Canal Albert Lanaye 30aug2008(detail)
Share experience

Nearby Places

Battle of Fort Eben-Emael
Battle of Fort Eben-Emael

The Battle of Fort Eben-Emael was a battle between Belgian and German forces that took place between 10 May and 11 May 1940, and was part of the Battle of Belgium and Fall Gelb, the German invasion of the Low Countries and France. An assault force of German paratroopers, Fallschirmjäger, was tasked with assaulting and capturing Fort Eben-Emael, a Belgian fortress whose strategic position and strong artillery emplacements dominated several important bridges over the Albert Canal. These carried roads which led into the Belgian heartland and were what the German forces intended to use to advance. As some of the German airborne forces assaulted the fortress and disabled the garrison and the artillery pieces inside it, others simultaneously captured three bridges over the Canal. Having disabled the fortress, the airborne troops were then ordered to protect the bridges against Belgian counter-attacks until they linked up with ground forces from the German 18th Army. The battle was a strategic victory for the German forces, with the airborne troops landing on top of the fortress with gliders and using explosives and flamethrowers to disable the outer defences of the fortress. The Fallschirmjäger then entered the fortress, killing some defenders and containing the rest in the lower sections of the fortress. Simultaneously, the rest of the German assault force had landed near the three bridges over the Canal, destroyed several pillboxes and defensive positions and defeated the Belgian forces guarding the bridges, capturing them and bringing them under German control. The airborne troops suffered heavy casualties during the operation, but succeeded in holding the bridges until the arrival of German ground forces, who then aided the airborne troops in assaulting the fortress a second time and forcing the surrender of the remaining members of the garrison. German forces were then able to use two bridges over the Canal to bypass Belgian defensive positions and advance into Belgium to aid in the invasion of the country. The bridge at Kanne was destroyed, forcing German engineers to construct a new bridge.