Bois du Cazier

The Bois du Cazier became a coal mine in what was then the metropolis of Marcinelle, near Charleroi, in Belgium which nowadays is preserved as an commercial background site. It is great called the vicinity of a first-rate mining catastrophe that took place on August 8, 1956 in which 262 guys, inclusive of a massive wide variety of Italian labourers, have been killed. Aside from memorials to the catastrophe, the website online features a small wooded area park, preserved headframes and homes, in addition to an Industrial Museum and Glass Museum.

The museum features at the European Route of Industrial Heritage and is one of the 4 Walloon mining web sites listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2012. The history of coal mining on the web page of the Bois du Cazier dates again to a concession offered by royal decree on 30 September 1822; a transcription blunders prompted the name of the website to be changed from Bois de Cazier. After 1898, the site become owned by the charbonnages d'Amercœur employer and operated with the aid of the Société anonyme du Charbonnage du Bois du Cazier.