Attractions and Places To See around Cutry - Top 20

🏰 **Château de Cons-la-Grandville – A Journey Through the Centuries** The imposing castle of **Cons-la-Grandville**, near the border with Luxembourg, combines Romanesque origins with Renaissance and Baroque architecture. Built on the foundations of a Gallo-Roman villa, it was expanded and remodeled several times from the 11th century onwards. Particularly worth seeing: the Romanesque cloister, the elegant façade, and the magnificent courtyard. 🕰️ The château was the residence of the noble de Cons family, later also a monastery, and has been lovingly restored. Today it is a listed monument and open to visitors. **Tip:** Be sure to visit the cloister – one of the oldest preserved of its kind in Lorraine. Ideal as a stopover on the way between France and Luxembourg.

A highlight for railway lovers! But also a cool experience for the whole family. The tickets are day tickets and you can travel on the trains all day 🚂.

Charming little historic town with an excellent restaurant Le Gras Q

The castle of Cons-la-Grandville is a castle which dates from the 11th century and which has been transformed and restored over the centuries. You can admire the architecture and sculptures of the castle, which combine Romanesque, Renaissance and classical styles. You can also explore the park and village of Cons-la-Grandville, surrounded by hills and woods.

Before mining, there was a very active quarry on this site in the 19th century, from which comes the name Grôven. Initially the Grôven Mine was made up of two concessions: a concession of 5 ha that the State had allocated to the Société de Chemins de Fer et Minières Prince Henri and a second of 10 ha, established for the benefit of the Société des Mines du Luxembourg and the Forges de Sarrebrück, the SBS. From 1898, the SBS took over the operation of these two concessions. The inscription SBS is still engraved on the keystone at the entrance to the mine. In 1911, the Société Anonyme des Hauts Fourneaux et Forges de Dudelange, the Société de Forges d'Eich and the Société Anonyme des Mines du Luxembourg et des Forges de Sarrebrück, the SBS, merged. This is how ARBED, the Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange, was born, which then continued to operate the Grôven mine. As the photo shows, next to the two galleries of the Grôven mine, the site was also made up of offices, a forge, a benzol depot, a mine timber depot and a scale serving to weigh the carts. Today only the old locomotive shed remains. Iron ore was extracted from the Grôven mine until 1957, when the definitive cessation of exploitation was decided due to the imminent exhaustion of reserves.

Very nice place to discover

Fond-de-Gras is a former transhipment point where iron ore was transferred from the mines to freight traffic. Today there is an open-air museum here, in which visitors are brought closer to the history of ore mining. Various guided tours and a trip on the “Minièresbunn” mine train or the “Train 1900” steam train are possible here.

“Each of these crosses can tell its own story and what motivated people to build “their” cross on this spot. (...) These crosses were erected as visible signs and attract the attention of many people. The cross is a symbol of life. It stands as a sign of our Christian hope and wants to direct our gaze to Jesus Christ, who conquered death (…). The cross is part of our lives, just as it was part of the life of Jesus. So I hope that many people ... visit the crosses, whether as places of silence and taking a breath before God, whether as places of community gathering, prayer and praise of God. (Text source: Dean Rainald M. Ollig in: “Crosses... Small sacred monuments as signs of popular piety”)