Hastière

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Hastière is a location on the Meuse municipality in the province of Namur in the Walloon region of Belgium.

The municipality consists of the villages Hastière- Lavaux, Agimont, Blaimont, Hastière-par- delà, Army, Hermeton -sur -Meuse and Waulsort. Furthermore, there are several hamlets, including Lenne.

History

The name of the village was Waulsort for a geological event in the village transferred to a temporarily existing stratigraphic stage of the Lower Carboniferous in Belgium (French Waulsortien ) and had acquired a historical significance within the geological prospecting in the region around Dinant in the 19th century. The designation was made in 1863 by Edouard Dupont, director of the Musée Royal d' Histoire naturelle, for a total of six stages ( d' Étroeungt - later Ecaussines, Avesnelles - later Anseremme, Tournai, Waulsort, Namur and Visé ) of the limestone deposits of the Belgian Carboniferous. Dupont had the first geological mapping in the region of Dinant in 1880 operated in charge, said he used only three steps ( Tournaisien, Waulsortien, Viséen ) in its map display. Already in 1888 this designation was liquidated on the basis of the work of Charles Louis Joseph de La Vallée Poussin again. Henry de Dorlodot renounced in 1893 in his description of the local limestone on these stratigraphic term. The limestone of Waulsort was recovered among other in this former rain quarrying region of the Meuse valley above Dinant, as stone and carried the trade name Breche de Waulsort.