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  • Location: Heusden-Zolder, Hasselt, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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    February 8, 2025

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    On the site (part 1):

    Shaft towers built from 1924 (shaft I) and 1925 (shaft II), to a design by Lemaire (Châtelineau), by the Luxembourg construction company Wurth. Made of metal trusswork according to the trestle type, with an open lift shaft (above the shaft) in front of both trestle muscles; two rearward-facing trestle legs. Metal arch roof. Due to the smaller useful shaft diameter (diameter 5 metres, compared to a diameter of 6 metres for shaft II), shaft trestle I only has two cable pulleys and a single lift shaft.
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    February 8, 2025

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    Concrete chimney-shaped cooling tower of 6,000 cubic metres per hour, built in 1937 by the Société Hamon (successor Leon Monnoyer & Fils, Brussels). The same …
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    March 13, 2026

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    In 1992, the last mine in the Benelux closed its doors in Zolder. Yet, it was the first place where the protected buildings were given a new purpose. Along with …
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    Treinstapper from Beverlo to Zolder

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    Location: Heusden-Zolder, Hasselt, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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