Esch Belval was one of the outstanding steel production plants in Esch. Some elements are still in operation although the blast furnaces have stopped.
Now the site is being redeveloped for housing, commerce and the recently established University of Luxembourg has its headquarters there.
Maison du Savoir - Uni - façade
Esch Belval - transport ladle car
Esch Belval - cowpers
Esch Belval - cowpers
Esch Belval - blast furnace
Esch Belval - reflections
Esch Belval - colours
Esch Belval - sentinels of our industrial past
Late afternoon January sky
Walking along the blast furnace
Bank building on the newly developed site of the former steel plant
Belval station looking out onto the new developments
Belval steel plant - Cowpers
Blast furnace
Blast furnaces from bygone times
Bridge over the rails
A straight line
Capelli Towers residential
Esch Belval station
Flats set in pleasant park grounds
Industrial heritage and new developments
Industrial preservation and new buildings
Lush greenery
New flats
New housing developments
Orange brain and autumn foliage
Palplanches sheet piles ready for transportation
Park with blast furnaces in the background
Plant tutors
Rails
Red bridge pedestrian crossing
Red parasols
Sculpture
Sloe
Station and shopping centre
Vertical garden
Blast furnaces and construction site on a rainy day