Bois-du-Luc

Modern view of the Bois-du-Luc

The Bois-du-Luc was a coal mine in Houdeng-Aimeries, near La Louvière, in Belgium which today is preserved as an industrial heritage site. One of the oldest mines in Belgium with recorded activity dating back to 1685, the Saint Emmanuel Pit (Fosse Saint-Emmanuel) was active until 1973 under the operation of the Société des Charbonnages de Bois-du-Luc et d'Havre. The Bois-du-Luc is particularly known for the surrounding company town (cité ouvrière), which dates to the first half of the 19th century and covers 2 hectares (4.9 acres), is one of the best examples of industrial paternalism in Belgium.

The site, run as an ecomuseum since 1983, features on the European Route of Industrial Heritage and is one of the four Walloon mining sites listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site under the Major Mining Sites of Wallonia listing.

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Official website
Bois-du-Luc Ecomuseum at 365.be

Coordinates: 50°28′14″N 4°09′00″E / 50.470461°N 4.149881°E / 50.470461; 4.149881

Major Mining Sites of Wallonia (UNESCO World Heritage Site)

Grand-Hornu Bois-du-Luc Bois du Cazier Blegny-Mine

See also: List of World Heritage Sites in Belgium • European Route of Industrial Heritage

European Route of Industrial Heritage

Anchor sites	Augsburg textile and industry museum August Horch Museum Zwickau Beringen coal preparation plant Big Pit National Coal Museum Blaenavon Ironworks Bocholt textile museum Bois du Cazier Calais lace museum Chatham Historic Dockyard Brick Works De Panoven Continium Derwent Valley Mills Espace Métal, Grossouvre Gasometer Oberhausen Geevor Tin Mine Guido mine Heartlands, Redruth Heineken Experience Hendrich's Drop Forge, Solingen Historical Technical Museum, Peenemünde Jewellery Quarter Kelham Island Museum Lion Salt Works London Museum of Water & Steam Manufaktura, Museum of the Factory Medemblik steam museum Merkers Adventure Mines Důl Michal, Ostrava mNACTEC Terrassa Museum over industrie, arbeid en textiel Nordwolle Museum Nord, Narvik Norks Teknisk Museum Parys Mountain Carreau Wendel musée de mineurs Prato textile museum Rammelsberg Rhondda Heritage Park Saltaire Historic Silver Mine in Tarnowskie Góry Tyskie brewing museum Tyssedal Hydroelectric Power Station TwentseWelle Verdant Works Völklingen Ironworks Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex

Former Anchor sites	Beringen coal preparation plant MOSI

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