Raschpëtzer Qanat

Coordinates: 49°40′8.26″N 6°8′33.83″E / 49.6689611°N 6.1427306°E / 49.6689611; 6.1427306 The Raschpëtzer Qanat is located NE of Helmsange in the commune of Walferdange, 10 km north of the City of Luxembourg. A qanat is an underground water management system consisting of vertical shafts connecting to a sloping tunnel designed to provide a supply of fresh water.

The Raschpëtzer is a particularly well preserved example of a qanat and is probably the most extensive system of its kind north of the Alps. It has been under systematic excavation for the past 40 years. To date some 330 m of the total tunnel length of 600 m have been explored. Thirteen of the 20 to 25 shafts have been discovered.^[1]

The qanat appears to have provided water for a large Roman villa on the slopes of the Alzette valley. It was built during the Gallo-Roman period, probably around the year 150 and functioned for about 120 years thereafter.

Footnotes

↑ Pierre Kayser and Guy Waringo: L’aqueduc souterrain des Raschpëtzer, un monument antique de l’art de l’ingénieur au Luxembourg. Retrieved 2 December 2007

Roman aqueducts

Croatia	Diocletianus Aqueduct

France	Barbegal aqueduct Pont du Gard Gier aqueduct

Germany	Eifel Aqueduct

Italy	Aqua Anio Novus Aqua Alexandrina Aqua Alsietina Aqua Appia Aqua Augusta (Naples) Aqua Augusta (Rome) Aqua Claudia Aqua Julia Aqua Martia Aqua Tepula Aqua Traiana Aqua Virgo Pont d'Aël

Jordan	Gadara Aqueduct

Luxembourg	Raschpëtzer Qanat

Spain	Acueducto de los Milagros Aqueduct of Segovia Aqüeducte de les Ferreres Las Médulas

Turkey	Valens Aqueduct

Wales	Dolaucothi Gold Mines

List of Roman aqueducts

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