Wolwelingen: Cycling Route and Slate History

If you are looking for a hotel for a trip to Wolwelingen, you can choose the destination based on its cycling and slate-history themes. The PC des Ardoisières cycle route offers a clear connection to cycling; a museum, protected cultural heritage and historical accounts add cultural and historical points of interest. This places a specific route alongside several historical landmarks when choosing where to stay.

Cycling route on a former railway line

The PC des Ardoisières cycle route runs entirely along a former railway line, on a dedicated route separated from other traffic. At the edge of Wolwelingen, it branches off towards Perlé before descending to Martelange. Perlé indicates the direction of the branch, while Martelange is the place to which the route then descends.

Slate history and museum

The Musée de l'Ardoise is a slate museum in Haut-Martelange, near Wolwelingen, and comprises 22 authentic buildings. The main entrance to the Musée de l'Ardoise is near Wolwelingen on the CR311 between Rombach-Martelange and Wolwelingen. For orientation, the museum's location and the entrance's location are two distinct details: Haut-Martelange identifies where the museum is, while the road reference locates the entrance between Rombach-Martelange and Wolwelingen.

The slate industry in the western part of the canton of Redange also included businesses in Wolwelingen in the first half of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the narrow-gauge Jhangeli railway from Noerdange to Martelange connected the region's slate quarries to the railway network, making distribution easier. Chronologically, this places local businesses in the 19th century alongside a regional rail connection at the beginning of the 20th century. The PC des Ardoisières cycle route and the Jhangeli railway also played different roles: the cycle route follows a former railway line, while the railway connected the slate quarries to the rail network.

Cultural heritage and local traditions

The former farm at Rue de Martelange 3 in Wolwelingen is protected as national cultural heritage. The archaeological site of “In Buurg” includes land in Perlé and Wolwelingen. This places a protected building with a precise address alongside an archaeological site spanning two places as distinct forms of cultural heritage.

At the eastern edge of Wolwelingen, the Wolwelingen Hermitage is an ensemble comprising a chapel, a beech tree, a small green space and an enclosing hedge. Beside the chapel, the stump of the “Wolframsbich” has been preserved and has been sprouting again for several years.

A church in Wolwelingen was mentioned as early as 1330. According to old parish registers, an annual procession from the Wolwelingen Hermitage to Ueschdref began in 1670. The dates mark different historical points of reference: the early mention of a church and the later recorded procession.

The farm and the Wolwelingen Hermitage are in Wolwelingen; the Musée de l'Ardoise is in Haut-Martelange near Wolwelingen; “In Buurg” includes land in Perlé and Wolwelingen.

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