Discover Lasauvage

Lasauvage brings together traces of mining, museums, memorial sites and hiking trails. Several perspectives sit side by side: early industrial history, experiences of the Second World War, local legends, and landscapes of forests and rehabilitated mining areas. To get a sense of the destination, you can decide whether you are mainly interested in a walk through the village, a trail or specific historical topics.

Mining history and remembrance

A forge was built in Lasauvage as early as 1625; only a few traces of it remain today. This date provides an early chronological reference point for the history of mining. The surviving traces also offer a tangible link to this early period in the village’s history.

The Espace Muséologique de Lasauvage features a life-size reconstruction of a refuge in a mine. Young Luxembourgers hid in this refuge during the Second World War to avoid being required to serve in the German army and wear the Nazi uniform. The Eugène Pesch Museum Lasauvage displays a collection of fossils and minerals, as well as a reconstruction of a mine gallery. In this way, natural materials, the portrayal of mining and a specific wartime story are presented as distinct themes.

A walk through the streets of Lasauvage also leads to places shaped by history and legend. The Monument spahis algériens à Lasauvage commemorates the French-Algerian reconnaissance troops who fell in battle during Nazi Germany’s attack in May 1940. The walk and the monument offer different points of reference: historical and legendary places in the village, and remembrance of a specific wartime event.

Hiking trails and mining landscapes

The section of the Minett Trail through Lasauvage passes through dense forests and rehabilitated mining areas. From the village of Lasauvage towards Differdange, the Minett Trail follows the Crosnière stream. The route description thus brings together two specific points of reference: the landscape along the trail and the course of the stream.

The Sentier de la Crosnière includes side paths where visitors can explore various nature-related themes. Towards the end of the trail, visitors can see surviving posts from the former “Minièresbunn” railway line. In this way, nature-related themes and traces of the former railway can be encountered along the route.

The “Minièresbunn” mining train connects Fond-de-Gras with Saulnes in France via Lasauvage, along a 4 km route. This connection differs from the hiking trails described above in its specific route length and the places it links.

The name Crosnière appears in two contexts: as the stream followed by the Minett Trail towards Differdange, and in the name of the Sentier de la Crosnière, whose side paths explore nature-related themes. Minièresbunn refers both to the mining train connection and to the former railway line commemorated by the surviving posts. This makes it possible to distinguish the stream, hiking trail and railway line.

When planning your stay, you can choose what to focus on in Lasauvage: local history and memorial sites, trails through forests and rehabilitated mining areas, or the mining train connection between the places mentioned.

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