Ancienne usine tissage Godchaux

Ernest Godchaux, son of Luxembourg industrialists, created Tissages Mécaniques Godchaux in Balan at the beginning of the 20th century. When he died in 1931, his son-in-law Alexandre Bighetti took over the company, until his death in 1965. The buildings date from the first half of the 20th century and are currently occupied, among other things, by a commercial warehouse.
The site opens to the north with a set of four bays of manufacturing workshops with shed roofs covered with sheet metal or asbestos cement. Then adjoins it a long building partially demolished to the east rising to two square floors and an attic floor with a gable roof and slate covering. Finally, a building develops along the rue Poupart de Neuflize, the interior levels of which are in reinforced concrete. The walls are mainly in limestone rubble with stone jambs. Inside the workshops the wooden frame is exposed. The first levels are sometimes supported by cast iron posts.