If you could have looked up from here before the Albert Canal was built between 1932 and 1936, you would see the bottom of a few farms at a crossroads of field roads.
From those farms, which formed the hamlet of De Keel, several wells had been dug into the marl. Marl has been mined through these shafts since the mid-seventeenth century.
The thousands of cubic meters of marl blocks were hoisted up through the shafts to be used as building blocks. The current access tunnel was only built after the canal was built to facilitate the transport of blocks and marl powder for the lime industry.
From 1940 to about 1970, the quarry was used simultaneously for the cultivation of cave mushrooms and lime extraction. Ultimately, the reclamation of the marl created approximately seven kilometers of underground passages on four different levels.
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