Ern Jacoby's photos with the keyword: luxembourg

This construction with a roof in front of the well known Fondation Pescatore is a well hidden aeration from the underground casemate system. Former Berlaimont Reduit and Fort Charles. During the period of cold war this historic underground fortress was - in case of an atomic war - arranged as a a bunker for the Government of Luxembourg. This aeration you see in front integrated in the fence was equipped with a very simple filter system. During my activ time as geologist I had access to those old casemates and discovered an impressive wine collection underneath the Pescatore, an old people‘s home? Or left by General Patton: During the battle of the Bulge, 16th december 1944 until 25th january 1945, the Foundation was used as the main headquarters for American General George S. Patton.

Some more stones from my homeland. In front you see plenty of shells, sediment rock composition. Minette is a type of mineral deposit, consisting of iron ore of sedimentary origin, found in the south of Luxembourg and in Lorraine. Minette ore was deposited in the Early and Middle Jurassic.The term "Minette" came from French miners. It is a diminutive form of "la mine", and might be translated as "little mine“ because of relatively poor iron content of between 28% and 34%.

Heiderscheidergrund Luxembourg: 400 million year old Devonian schists with ripple marks, epicontinental sea sediments of thousands of metres sickness, transformed later on into schists followed by orogeny during carboniferous time.

My Homeland Minette in South Luxembourg. Minette is a type of mineral deposit, consisting of iron ore of sedimentary origin, found in the south of Luxembourg and in Lorraine. Minette ore was deposited in the Early and Middle Jurassic.The term "Minette" came from French miners. It is a diminutive form of "la mine", and might be translated as "little mine“ because of relatively poor iron content of between 28% and 34%.

Luxembourg / Altwies jurassic sandstone