The best walks and hikes around Orp-Jauche

Very pretty little village with many possibilities for routes for all sports (except skiing :) )

A very bright walk with beautiful scenery.

How they pulled this off, I have no idea. But this hangar does indeed house a real airplane. Only the large wings have been dismantled, as far as we could tell.

Caravelle Alsace, first Air France production model from 1959

Beautiful church, peaceful village atmosphere

Orp station, with telegraphic code ORP, was a railway station in Orp-le-Grand from 15 October 1865 to 4 October 1959 for passengers and until 20 October 1981 for goods, since 1977 a sub-municipality of Orp-Jauche in Walloon Brabant on railway line 147 (Landen - Tamines). https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_Orp Be sure to also take a look at the area around the station where the railway facilitated an industrial activity that is now a thing of the past. At the front there is a car park and on the other side of the road you can see a small "castle", the castle of Tongerlo. The back is more interesting with a pleasant park on the RAVeL cycle path and at the intersection with the main road (at the chip shop) various buildings from a recent industrial past. An information board also tells what they are/were: you can see the remains of a sugar factory, workers' buildings, remains of the cement industry and so on.

The church closed its doors at the end of the twentieth century. In 2022, L'Avenir wrote that due to a lack of maintenance, the condition of the building had deteriorated and that it even posed a safety hazard. After all, during maintenance on the roof, one of the walls was no longer stable. The mayor would urgently look into eliminating the dangerous situation. Today, the building is apparently still in poor condition and the chosen safety solution apparently seemed to close off the area around the building with fences, just like the adjacent rectory. At the time, it was said that they wanted to keep the church because of its heritage value, but until further notice, only the area around it is useful for a beautiful horse that comes to say hello from all sides. Article on https://www.lavenir.net/regions/brabantwallon/orp-jauche/2022/06/30/orp-jauche-on-ne-rasera-pas-leglise-notre-dame-dorp-le-petit-TZABF6D5TFEXZNOGPWS7DKDKYQ/

Opposite the dilapidated church of Orp-le-Petit, which is located next to the equally dilapidated old presbytery, there are modern, seemingly renovated buildings. A bright dark red entrance gate immediately catches the eye, behind which there is a place with an equally red building complex. And in front of that gate is a typical old stone 'born-potale' with an inscription. But is that gate itself old? The thing intrigued me, especially considering the contrast with the rest of the center where there are quite a few old buildings. If you look a little closer, you will soon see that the gate is made of Gobertange stone. If you go under the gate, you will also immediately see the (remains of the) dovecote. In short: a typical feature of an older manor farm. Inspection shows that there was indeed a farm here, the 'ferme Jonet'. The gate was built in the nineteenth century and the farm itself was taken over at a certain point and partly put into use as a foundry (not the main building). It continued to operate until the early sixties. Today the whole has been modernized and everything has been converted into homes. Of course you can ask yourself if it is also beautiful. In any case worth a look, certainly with the small 'borne-potale' of which I still have to look up the origin.