Minett-Park Fond-de-Gras

Minett Park Fond-de-Gras

Where? 2, Fond-de-Gras, L-4576 Fond-de-Gras (Niederkorn)

The Minett Park Fond-de-Gras is an open-air museum that includes the Fond-de-Gras, the village of Lasauvage, the former open-cast mine of Giele Botter and the Celtic oppidum of Titelberg.

Nowadays, it’s hard to imagine that the peaceful little valley of Fond-de-Gras was, until the 1960s, one of the country’s leading mining centres. At the Minett Park Fond-de-Gras, over 100 years of industrial history in the south of Luxembourg are brought vividly to life. The Train 1900 steam train links Pétange with Fond-de-Gras just as it used to around the turn of the last century. The “Minièresbunn” miners’ train takes visitors through a tunnel where iron ore used to be extracted, from Fond-de-Gras to the mining village of Lasauvage and as far as Saulnes (in France). In summer, the Blues Express music festival and the Steampunk Convention make this open-air museum rock!

Fond-de-Gras was one of the most important mining centres in Luxembourg. However the extraction of iron ore ended in 1955. In 1964, a landslide on the Fond-de-Gras – Pétange railway line put an end to all railway activities. A few years later, volunteers commit to run a tourist train with historic steam locomotives. The first "Train 1900" circulated in 1973. A few years later, an old mine is opened again and can be visited thanks to the mining train "Minièresbunn".

Today, at the Fond-de-Gras, several historic buildings have been preserved: an electric power station, old grocery store, rolling mill train, railway station and railway sheds, testifying to the mining activity that took place there for nearly a century.

The Minett Park Fond-de-Gras can be visited free of charge all year round; the activities are linked to specific days of the week and times. The Minett Park website provides information about the opening times.


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Wir sind geöffnet vom 1. Mai bis zum letzten Wochenende September, immer kostenfreier Zugang

Minett-Park Fond-de-Gras
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Contact

Address: Minett Park Fond-de-Gras
2, Fond-de-Gras
L-4576 Niederkorn
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Phone:+352 26 58 20 69
E-Mail:info@minettpark.lu
Website:https://www.minettpark.lu
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