Industrial Heritage

At the end of the nineteenth century, a viaduct was constructed under one of the many access roads to the centre of Brussels for a road that has been removed from all street atlases today.

An old railway embankment along the Scheldt has revealed its secrets since the beginning of this century. Not only was it transformed into a miniature nature reserve, but you will also find references to the railway past.

On the eve of the reconversion of the ruins of the Hasard coal mine in Cheratte near Liège, the imposing concrete headframe was demolished.

For more than half a century, this lime factory's four kilns produced 180 tons of lime per day, but today, the complex stands alone in a forest near Aachen, Germany.

The Belgian Rupel region has over fifty brickmakers' tunnels running under streets and railway lines. They are the best-hidden reminder of the brick industry of yesteryear.

The Liedtspark in Oudenaarde, East Flanders, not only has a whole series of follies in store, but on the edge of the park, you will also find a transformer house that has been given the contours of a medieval castle tower.

Two hundred years ago, in 1823, the Ghent city architect Louis Roelandt started establishing the first gas factory on the Waalse Krook, specifically on the site where the Ghent city library now stands.

A monumental bonded warehouse was built in 1902 at the Essen border station along railway line 12 between Antwerp (Belgium) and Roosendaal in the Netherlands.