In 1916, the German army constructed a 285-metre-long viaduct in the village of Born in just eight months.
Railway line 47, the section of the Vennbahn between Sankt Vith and Troisvierges, was commissioned in late 1889 and crossed the Our River via a brick viaduct near the German village of Hemmeres.
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