Nobressart
Lorraine

Au cœur d’un amphithéâtre vallonné, dans un paysage tout en douceur, apparaît Nobressart. Les teintes claires de ses façades crépies et le bleu de ses toits d’ardoises contrastent avec un environnement verdoyant.

Province : Luxembourg
Commune : Attert

Situé au débouché de quatre petites vallées, ce village puise tout son charme dans une harmonieuse dualité : bâtiments d’implantation ardennaise côtoient de beaux volumes jointifs typiques de la Lorraine. De la rue principale naissent des chemins créant de minuscules quartiers composés de quelques maisons. Une structure en grappe qui, complétée du ruisseau de Nobressart et de ses affluents, aère ce village à l’habitat traditionnel et homogène. Implantée au-dessus de cette voie principale, l’église Saint-Jean-Baptiste semble prendre de haut le noyau de bâtiments remarquables qu’elle surplombe.

Votre découverte du village sera rythmée par une subtile alternance entre interventions d’hier et d’aujourd’hui : nouvelles habitations intégrées et espace-rue aménagé avec doigté et diversité donnent le change aux façades plus anciennes que caractérisent portes charretières ou petites fenêtres gerbières des fenils.

© Photographies: 1-15 Mark Rossignol

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Syndicat d’Initiative du val d'Attert
Voie de la Liberté, 107
6717 Attert
Tél. : + 32 (0)63 22 26 17
www.attert-tourisme.be

Parc Naturel Au Pays de l'Attert
Voie de la Liberté, 107         
6717 Attert
Tél. : + 32 (0)63 22 78 55
www.aupaysdelattert.be

Maison du Tourisme du Pays d'Arlon
Rue des Faubourgs, 2
6700 Arlon
Tél. : + 32 (0)63 21 94 54
www.arlon-tourisme.be

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Lorraine

Paysage

This high plateau region, located south of the Ardenne, is rhythmed by a succession of asymmetric terrains, called "cuestas", resulting of the ground's step erosion. Each cuesta is made of a "front" on the north (a short and steep slope) and a "back" on the south (a long and smooth slope). Below the front is a depression, developed in smoother rocks, where a stream usually flows.

The space organisation in Lorraine matches the openfield model, with dominating meadows.A ring of fields, mostly affected to meadowing, stretches around the village core. These fields uniformly recover the silty and wet bottoms of the valleys, as well as some smooth slopes. The farmings, packed on better watered marly or sandy-silty grounds, are most usually found in smooth slopes. The forest is located on sandy and poor grounds of the cuestas' back, the skinny grounds of the fronts or on the steep slops of some valleys.

The habitat is grouped in dense villages, set below a front or on the back of a cuesta; the strong agricultural restraints of the community have indeed drastically limited the spreading out of the habitat. An alignment of attached houses, often set parallely to the street, usually form the core of the village. The levelling of the doors give an open access to the road, called "usoir", letting the structure of the street-village appear. This space was meant for the stocking of manure, wood and a part of the agricultural material.

Sources : FRW - CPDT

Traditional habitat

Traditional houses in Lorraine are usually built with sandstone and limestone. This tender waterproof rock require the adding of a protection covering. Depending on the material used for it, this covering can be of different shades. In the distant rural habitat, houses tend to be longer, depending on the owner's wealth: the small bicellular house of the laborer stands aside the tri-/quadricellular one of the farmer. These "block" houses are usually made of two levels and are covered in a grey shales roof, sometimes ended by a small attic called "croupette". This croupette is a small, lateral piece of the roof, that joins the two slopes without getting as low as they do. It helps assuring the stability of the roofing, and decreases the wind exposition.

Let's point out the fact that in the south-west of Lorraine, the orange red "channel" tile covers some smoother shaped roofs.

Sources : FRW - CPDT

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