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Moulin Faber – La Grotte de la porte Aïve Rondje vanuit Hotton

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Moulin Faber – La Grotte de la porte Aïve Rondje vanuit Hotton

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February 11, 2022

Moulin Faber – La Grotte de la porte Aïve Rondje vanuit Hotton

Moderate

02:11

8.15km

3.7km/h

100m

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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

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590 m

Faber Watermill

Highlight • Monument

This water mill for grinding grain still functions just for the pleasure of the visitors.

This Hotton watermill from 1729 gives us the true feeling of a bygone era. It was built along a watercourse, a second tributary of the Ourthe, which gave rise to an island (l'île d'Oneux) in the heart of the place.
At that time it was a communal mill and the inhabitants were obliged to grind their grain in the mill of the Lordship. This obligation was accompanied by a tax called "milling dues" and was proportional to the amount of milled grain. The mill was functional until the early 1960s and bears the name of its last owner, Mr Lucien Faber, whose wish was to open the mill to the public. She became the property of the Hotton Municipality in 1989.
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982 m

Caves and Cliffs along the Ourthe

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Beautifully located climbing area on the Ourthe with its own picnic area and here the sound of the river instead of, as is often the case in Belgium, the road and railway line. Actually, there is something for everyone, although the focus is on easier to intermediate routes. The rock is good, but not always perfectly solid.

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2.77 km

Porte Aïve Cave

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The cave of "Porte Aïve" (meaning "the lofty gate") is located on the right bank of the Isbelle stream, a tributary of the Ourthe. This cave is a very interesting place for archaeologists.

Many excavations were made in the cave from 1907 to 1908, and again in 1956. The first excavations were made at the main entrance and terrace, and have a Neolithic tomb (9900 to 3300 BC) at the bottom of the cave. brought to light. It is quite possible that an older deposit is still present in the cave.
At the end of 1944, the Germans had set up a command post in this cave.
If you are a geology enthusiast, it is interesting to know that this cave opens perpendicular to the vertical rock banks.
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6.37 km

Isbelle Karst Spring

Highlight • Natural Monument

The Karst spring of the Isbelle

When the stream "l'Isbelle" comes from an impenetrable layer of sandstone on the limestone ridge, downstream from
from the hamlet of Melines, she disappears. She's looking for her way further underground! This disappearance is caused by the presence of two small parallel fault lines, which are perpendicular to the direction of the valley of the Ourthe.
At low tide or under normal conditions, the Isbelle flow disappears at the first fault line for about 50m in a series of small and scattered sinkholes in the riverbed. This
are too small to be physically examined by humans. The water permanently feeds a “resurgence” or “karst spring” called “Fontaine de Thot”. In this place, just at the foot of the chalet of the “Spéléo Club de Belgique”, the water resurfaces before it flows into the Ourthe at the end of the Isbelle valley.
In a swollen river or after a thunderstorm, we can observe a saturation process and the water partly continues to the surface in the bed of the Isbelle, only then to submerge in the series of sinkholes of the second fault line. The water from these sinkholes feeds the second, but not permanent “karst source” of the Isbelle, about 100m from the bridge called “Pont des Gattes”.
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6.47 km