Grand Hornu
Grand-Hornu is an old industrial coal mining complex and company town in Hornu, near Mons, in Belgium. It was built by Henri De Gorge between 1810 and 1830.Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Mine
- Description: museum and arts center in ex-coal mining complex
- Also known as: “Grand-Hornu” and “Le Grand Hornu”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mausolée de la famille De Gorge and Saint-Ghislain railway station.
Mausolée de la famille De Gorge
Memorial
Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mausolée de la famille De Gorge is a memorial, which is situated 120 metres east of Grand Hornu.
Saint-Ghislain railway station
Railway station
Photo: Japplemedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Ghislain railway station is situated 1½ km northwest of Grand Hornu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hornu and Wasmes.
Wasmes
Village
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.0.
Wasmes is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Colfontaine, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. In January 1879 Vincent van Gogh temporarily moved to the village, in the hamlet of Petit Wasmes, to take up a post as missionary.
Quaregnon
Town
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.5.
Quaregnon is a municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. On 1 January 2018 Quaregnon had a total population of 19,006. The total area is 11.08 km. The municipality consists of the following districts: Quaregnon and Wasmuel.
Grand Hornu
- Category: industry
- Location: Boussu, Arrondissement of Mons, Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vlaams—“Grand Hornu” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Grand Hornu”
- Chinese: “大奥尔尼煤矿”
- Danish: “Grand Hornu”
- Dutch: “Grand-Hornu”
- Dutch: “Le Grand-Hornu”
- French: “Grand-Hornu”
- French: “Le Grand-Hornu”
- German: “Le Grand Hornu”
- Hungarian: “Grand-Hornu”
- Italian: “Grand-Hornu”
- Japanese: “グラン・オルニュ”
- Luxembourgish: “Grand-Hornu”
- Russian: “Гранд-Хорн”
- Slovenian: “Grand-Hornu”
- Slovenian: “Le Grand-Hornu”
- Swedish: “Grand Hornu”
- Swedish: “Grand-Hornu”
- Ukrainian: “Гран-Орню”
- Vietnamese: “Grand Hornu”
- Vlaams: “Grand-Hornu”
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