Major Mining Sites of Wallonia Belgium

Major Mining Sites of Wallonia - Belgium

Short Report

The four locations of the property forms a bead 170 km long by a 3-15 km wide, crossing Belgium from east to west, consisting of the best-preserved 19th- and 20th-century coal-mining sites of the country. He has examples of the utopian architecture from the early period of the industrial age in Europe within a highly integrated, industrial and urban ensembles, in particular the world-famous cave colliery and workers' city designed by Bruno Renard in the first half of the 19th century. Bois-du-Luc contains many buildings from 1838 to 1909 and one of Europe's oldest mines dating back to the late 17th century. While Wallonia had hundreds of coal mines, most of them have lost their infrastructure, while the four parts of the listed site maintained a high degree of integrity.

Wonderful Universal Importance

The world-famous cave , Bois-du-Luc, Middle Ages In The Citadel and Blegny-Mine sites represent the best preserved sites of mining in Belgium from the early 19th to the second half of the 20th century. The Walloon coalfield is one of the oldest and most characteristic of the industrial revolution on the European continent. The four sites are plenty of technical and industrial remains, both in the area of the surface and underground mining industry, industrial architecture related to the mines, employee housing, mining town urban planning and the social and human values related to their history, In particular, the memory of the Middle Ages In The Citadel disaster (1956).

Wide Report

The four sites constituting the good are on the same coal ground, forming a band of 170 km long, from 3 to 15 km broad, which crosses the country from the west to the east. It is nevertheless separated in two distinct geological basins, that of Hainaut on the West and that of Liège in the East. The first persists of the French side by the basin of Nord-Pas-de-Calais, the second of the German side towards Aachen. The good consists of three sites in Hainaut, one in the region of Liège. Each of them understands between twelve and twenty-six elements listed with architectural, urban, industrial or technical character.

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