Hombourg (; ; ; ) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Plombières, located in the province of Liège, Belgium. History Origins The existence of Hombourg is first recorded in 1070, as the settlement of "Hunborc". As early as 1124, the chapter of St. Peter's Collegiate Church in Liège owned property in Homburg ("Homborgh") and established a court of justice. Duchy of Limburg Homburg was part of the Duchy of Limburg. In 1286, the castle of Vilhenru (now Vieljaeren) was destroyed by Duke John I of Brabant as part of the war of succession of the Duchy of Limburg which he seized after the Battle of Worringen in 1288. The parish of Homburg was created from the earlier parish of Teuven; the church building at Homburg dates from the 13th century, but records demonstrate the existence of the parish before that time. The seigneurie hautaine of the towns of Homburg and Rémersdael was first granted by the King of Spain between 1560 to 1615 to Henri de Ghoer, Lord of Vieljaeren, and in 1648 to Winand and Jean-Henri d'Eynatten d'Obsinnich. Count Frederick of Eynatten sold it in 1721 to the Baroness of Hochsteden, wife of Baron Christian of Furstenberg.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Patrimoine de Hombourg Un peu dhistoire de Hombourg|url=http://www.hombourg.be/Patrimoine/Patrimoine%20Un%20peu%20histoire.html|access-date=2020-08-20|website=www.hombourg.be}}</ref> From 1794 to the present day After the second invasion of French troops in 1794, although the former Hombourg administration was suppressed, the region did not submit to the new regime and awaited the return of the Austrians. An uprising broke out and led to the conjuration du Bois-Rouge'' at Rémersdael on 8 February 1799, which was betrayed and led to the execution of several conspirators, including a Hombourgeois. In 1850, 85 inhabitants of Rémersdael requested the foundation of their submunicipality, and the Monitor of 12 December 1852 published a decree separating Rémersdael from Homburg. In the second half of the 19th century and until the First World War, the road network, municipal and school buildings were the subject of new developments and, in 1895, the Liège-Plombières railway line with a railway station in Hombourg was inaugurated. On the night of 3-4 August 1914, the army blew up the head of the Laschet tunnel in Homburg. This was the first tangible sign of the First World War in Belgium. During the interwar period, the Homburg barracks and the Homburg Dairy, built near the station, allowed the area to