Oesling
The Oesling is the septentrional part of the Grand-Duché of Luxembourg. It is a solid mass dévonien which belongs to the natural area called the Ardennes, here in fact the Luxembourg Ardennes constitutes a prolongation towards the South of the the Belgian Ardennes and in the east a prolongation of the Eiffel.
In the South Oesling joined the Gutland on an imaginary line on the basis of Perlé in the west towards Vianden in the east.
It is about a high plateau extremely parcelled out by small valleys with relatively steep slope.
Its average height is of 450 meters, the culminating point being at the locality Kneiff close to Huldange at an altitude of 560 meters.
The rocks are made up mainly of schists what gave rise to some exploitation of salte quarries in the area of Martelange. Seams of quartz and quarzite were exploited by careers which provided especially crushed rock.
Considering its relief extremely modelled of this area of the country on the relatively poor ground, the agriculture gave only poor results, situation which only improved with industrialization of the south of the country. Indeed the iron-foundries delivered in abundance a secondary product being able to be used for the fertilization of the fields and meadows. They was the Basic slags rich in phosphates coming from the basic Bessemer converters installed in these factories.
Inclined one finds, since the abandonment of the coppices of oak called Louhhecken, which provided the bark of their trees for the multitude of tanneries installed in north, especially of timberings in conifers, the common spruce (picea abies) being dominating. Thus an artificial timbering replaces the other, the natural forest being the Hêtraie.
Oesling is crossed by the following rivers:
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