{"id":3949,"date":"2016-03-02T08:17:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T08:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leboisducazier.be\/en\/histoire\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T10:09:08","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.leboisducazier.be\/en\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-3949\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-3949-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-3949-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-3949-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0HISTORY<\/h4>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span title=\"La pass\u00e9, pr\u00e9sent pour le futur \">The past, present for the future<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the south of Charleroi, at the gateway to the picturesque Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse region, the Bois du Cazier has become a place of life and meetings set against a background of industrial heritage. Nestling in the hollow of a setting of greenery, this architectural whole, crowned by two winding wheels, is encircled by three slagheaps which are ideal places for walks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scenery of a terrible mining disaster in 1964, the site has been rehabilitated thanks to the European Union and the Walloon Region. A museum travelling devoted to coal, steel and glass includes three sites : the 8<sup>th<\/sup> August area, the Industry Museum and the Glass Museum.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3534 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leboisducazier.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/sliderok-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"sliderok\" width=\"338\" height=\"245\" \/>From the industrial revolution\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Because coal was the main source of energy in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, the Charleroi area becomes the region of industries. The Bois du Cazier colliery is born in 1822 by the grace of Willem I, king of the Netherlands, who grants Lady Dowager Desmanet the first exploitation authorisation. In 1955, production is 170.557 tons for a total of 779 workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u2026 to the tragedy of Marcinelle<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3394 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leboisducazier.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12417778_1062244997131698_9218589392709624018_n-1-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"12417778_1062244997131698_9218589392709624018_n\" width=\"357\" height=\"272\" \/><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 8<sup>th<\/sup> August 1956 seemed to be going to be just another day. The older ones among us remember those thick clouds of black smoke above the colliery, visible from far away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That morning, 275 men had gone down into the underground depths, which they knew so well, to reach their workstation. The tragedy occurred at 8.10 am: a great fire engulfed the whole mine, taking the lives of 262 miners of 12 different origins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today the property of the Walloon Region, and managed by the non-profit organisation \u201cLe Bois du Cazier\u201d, the former colliery, converted thanks to the European\u00a0 funds of Objective 1, is a major cultural site in the Charleroi region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span id=\"result_box\" class=\"\" lang=\"en\"><span title=\"La duret\u00e9 du travail de ces \u00ab gueules noires \u00bb et ses dangers ont contribu\u00e9 \u00e0 faire du pays de Charleroi une terre prosp\u00e8re. \">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Omnipr\u00e9sente sur les photographies \u00e9voquant la trag\u00e9die de 1956, la grille surmont\u00e9e d\u2019un fronton couronn\u00e9 des lettres \u00ab BdC \u00bb reste tristement c\u00e9l\u00e8bre.\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0HISTORYThe past, present for the futureIn the south of Charleroi, at the gateway to the picturesque Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse region, the Bois du Cazier has become a place of life and meetings set against a background of industrial heritage. Nestling in the hollow of a setting of greenery, this architectural whole, crowned by two winding wheels, is encircled by three slagheaps which are ideal places for walks.Scenery of a terrible mining disaster in 1964, the site has been rehabilitated thanks to the European Union and the Walloon Region. A museum travelling devoted to coal, steel and glass includes three sites : the 8th August area, the Industry Museum and the Glass Museum.\u00a0From the industrial revolution\u2026Because coal was the main source of energy in the 19th century, the Charleroi area becomes the region of industries. The Bois du Cazier colliery is born in 1822 by the grace of Willem I, king of the Netherlands, who grants Lady Dowager Desmanet the first exploitation authorisation. In 1955, production is 170.557 tons for a total of 779 workers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u2026 to the tragedy of MarcinelleThe 8th August 1956 seemed to be going to be just another day. The older ones among us remember those thick clouds of black smoke above the colliery, visible from far away.That morning, 275 men had gone down into the underground depths, which they knew so well, to reach their workstation. The tragedy occurred at 8.10 am: a great fire engulfed the whole mine, taking the lives of 262 miners of 12 different origins.Today the property of the Walloon Region, and managed by the non-profit organisation \u201cLe Bois du Cazier\u201d, the former colliery, converted thanks to the European\u00a0 funds of Objective 1, is a major cultural site in the Charleroi region.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3949","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>History - Le Bois du Cazier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leboisducazier.be\/en\/history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"History - Le Bois du Cazier\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0HISTORYThe past, present for the futureIn the south of Charleroi, at the gateway to the picturesque Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse region, the Bois du Cazier has become a place of life and meetings set against a background of industrial heritage. 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