Lontzen
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 7.5 mi
- Elevation gain
- 463 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 463 ft
- Max elevation
- 817 ft
- TrailRank
- 41
- Min elevation
- 586 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 3 hours 17 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1129
- Uploaded
- July 10, 2021
- Recorded
- July 2021
near Lontzen, Wallonia (Belgique)
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Itinerary description
We found this walk on the following website, which gives you lots of information about things to do in this region.
https://www.ostbelgien.eu/nl
This walk is one of their 'Pleasure Walks', Pleasure Walk 14 and gives you the following information about the walk itself:
'Past pastures and meadows with fences, this trail is a journey back in time to the former zinc spar mines in Kelmis.
Between pastures and arable land your gaze falls on the crests of the hills, most of which are covered by woods. Livestock grazes on the meadows in the valleys. Here we meet the Lontzen stream and follow it into Kelmis Forest. At the 'casino pond' we join the course of the Göhl for a while.
The fact that it flowed through one of Europe's largest zinc and lead deposits was a fateful circumstance for the Göhl. During the industrial revolution in the 19th century the mineral resources were mined extensively without any heed being paid to the fauna or flora. Today, the disused mining area has been completely redeveloped and renaturated.
This acknowledged conservation area can be explored on various different hiking paths, with information panels explaining the importance of calamine mining in former times for Kelmis and the country around it. After that, uphill to the Eyneburg and we walk on into a real picture-postcard forest. At dusk we reach Lontzen.'
We started this walk from the lovely situated village of Lontzen, which accounts for the longer length of the track.
All in all a nice walk with lots of variety.
https://www.ostbelgien.eu/nl
This walk is one of their 'Pleasure Walks', Pleasure Walk 14 and gives you the following information about the walk itself:
'Past pastures and meadows with fences, this trail is a journey back in time to the former zinc spar mines in Kelmis.
Between pastures and arable land your gaze falls on the crests of the hills, most of which are covered by woods. Livestock grazes on the meadows in the valleys. Here we meet the Lontzen stream and follow it into Kelmis Forest. At the 'casino pond' we join the course of the Göhl for a while.
The fact that it flowed through one of Europe's largest zinc and lead deposits was a fateful circumstance for the Göhl. During the industrial revolution in the 19th century the mineral resources were mined extensively without any heed being paid to the fauna or flora. Today, the disused mining area has been completely redeveloped and renaturated.
This acknowledged conservation area can be explored on various different hiking paths, with information panels explaining the importance of calamine mining in former times for Kelmis and the country around it. After that, uphill to the Eyneburg and we walk on into a real picture-postcard forest. At dusk we reach Lontzen.'
We started this walk from the lovely situated village of Lontzen, which accounts for the longer length of the track.
All in all a nice walk with lots of variety.
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