The best walks and hikes around Grâce-Hollogne

A large scenography space was designed where you can discover a lot of information about the coal mountains in a fun way. There is also a cafeteria with a terrace where you can eat and drink something.

This mill, also called the "Herman" mill, was the banal mill of Engis, so it was here that the Engissois had to come to grind their grains. We do not know its date of construction but in a document from 1451, it is mentioned as being in ruins and destroyed. Therefore, it is prior to the aforementioned date. The mill ceased its functions in 1913 but it continued to turn to provide electricity until 1927. It had to endure 2 fires, the last of which was in 1930. The Moulin Servais belonged to the Lords of Haultepenne from 1409. In the corner facing the millrace, you will see a niche that housed a statue of Saint Catherine, patron saint of millers. Today, the niche houses a statue of the Virgin Mary. Opposite the mill entrance, on the right, we can see a spring that flows clear and limpid: it is the eye of an areine. An areine is a gallery dug at the foot of a hill in order to allow the evacuation of water and thus allow the exploitation of coal.

The Saint-Lambert church is open every Sunday from 10am to 4:30pm with extended hours from 01/04 to 31/10. During this period, it is open from 10am to 6pm on Saturdays and Sundays. Most churches are in the heart of the village. This is not the case here. This one is set back, on a hill surrounded by the cemetery, the old presbytery, in a peaceful, rural setting, at the crossroads of the Mosan and Hesbaye landscapes. This listed church is one of the rare examples of Louis XVI religious architecture in our region. In neoclassical style in brick and limestone, the current church was built between 1779 and 1783 by order of the Cathedral Chapter of Liège. Inside the church dedicated to Saint-Lambert, it is possible to admire a statue of Saint Guy. According to legend, Vitus (Guy in Latin), born in Sicily in the 3rd century, was first martyred around the age of 12 by the governor Valerian, because he refused to worship pagan idols. Provoking miraculous cures, he was then brought before the emperor Diocletian who tortured him until his death in 303. It was in the 9th century, following miracles that occurred during the transfer of the relics of Saint Guy from Saint-Denis, in France, to Saxony, that the cult of Saint Guy, protector of epileptics and patients with chorea, developed. These patients suffered from various disorders that increased as the feast of Saint Guy approached. They then went on pilgrimage to a church dedicated to him to dance there in order to free themselves from their anxieties and their illness. Here too, a pilgrimage once attracted a large crowd during a procession that took place on the Sunday following June 15, the Saint's feast day. It was traditional to participate three years in a row. The statue and the prayer dedicated to Saint Guy can be found in the Saint-Lambert church.

Located at the height of the church of La Gleixhe, this mill, commonplace for the inhabitants of Jeneffe, appears in the archives in 1590. Property of the lords of Haultepenne, it is also referred to as the molin delle Motte (former fief located in La Gleixhe) or the Moulin de l’église Sainte-Marie de La Gleixhe sous Haultepenne. Property of the lords of Haultepenne, it was commonplace for the inhabitants of Jeneffe, that is to say that the lords could force all the inhabitants of his lordship to use, for a fee, the technical equipment that they had built at their own expense on his estate. An educational signposted walk allows you to discover these old mills, most of which have been converted into homes. At the end of the 20th century, this building was purchased by the Walloon Region as part of the creation of night flight corridors at Bierset airport. It was then put up for auction and was purchased by a private individual.

Formerly located in the commune of Horion-Hozémont on the edge of La Gleixhe, this mill has been part of the Flémalle territory since 1976. Built in the 18th century in a place called L’Alloue en Lôneux, it was powered by a breast wheel with a diameter of 2.80 m (which received water in its middle). Its millers were named: Nihoul and Longré, the latter having ceased his miller activities around 1948. Access to the mill and its environment were profoundly modified in 1870 by the creation of the new road linking Les Awirs to Fexhe. At the end of the 20th century, the badly damaged millrace valve was still visible under the motorway viaduct.

This chapel, also called the Bouhet chapel, was built in 1867. Dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes, it is covered with ex-votos in honor of Saint-Guy invoked for the healing of diseases of nervous origin (chorea), in particular the disease known as "dance of Saint Guy". Built in 1867, it was restored in 2007 by the Fabrique d'église de la Gleixhe with the support of the Walloon Region and Qualité-Vilage-Awirs. In the Middle Ages, patients suffering from chorea were often considered to be possessed by the devil and burned alive. A pilgrimage used to attract a large crowd during a procession that took place on the Sunday following June 15, the feast day of the Saint. Nowadays, the cult of Saint Guy still takes place at the same time but has moved to the Saint-Lambert church in which the statue and the prayer of Saint Guy can be found.

In this place called Les Prairies and then Le Bouhet, bordering the old principalities of Stavelot-Malmedy (Horion-Hozémont) and Liège (La Gleixhe), three streams meet: the Bobesse, coming from Dommartin, the Hozémont and the Rouvroy taking their source in the localities of the same name. Property of the lords of Awirs and Haultepenne, a Preyrial mill (meadow mill) was already mentioned in 1266. In 1870, the Bouhet site underwent a significant encroachment on its land to allow the construction of the new road linking Les Awirs to Hozémont. The old road passed next to the mill and entered the undergrowth to emerge near the church of La Gleixhe. If the oil mill ceased its activities in 1849, the flour mill continued its activities until the day after the First World War.

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