Bois du Luc

The Bois du Luc changed into a coal mine in Houdeng Aimeries, near La Louviere, in Belgium which these days is preserved as an industrial heritage website. As properly as the site of the headquarters of the Societe des Charbonnages de Bois-du-Luc et d'Havre, the Bois du Luc turned into the website of the Saint Emmanuel Pit which belonged to the enterprise. The Fosse Saint-Emmanuel was one of the oldest mines in Belgium, with recorded interest relationship again to 1685.

The business enterprise ceased mining in 1973. The Bois-du-Luc is specially recognised for the encircling business enterprise town which turned into created for the mine works in the course of the 19th century and is these days one of the maximum brilliant surviving remnants of industrial paternalism in Belgium. It includes employees' housing which dates from the 1830s and covers about 2 hectares. The site, run as an ecomuseum on the grounds that 1983, functions at the European Route of Industrial Heritage and is one of the 4 Walloon mining web sites listed by using UNESCO as a World Heritage Site under the Major Mining Sites of Wallonia listing.