Vottem

50°40′N 05°35′E / 50.667°N 5.583°E / 50.667; 5.583

Vottem (in walloon Votem) is part of the belgian town of Herstal, locted in the Walloon Region in the Province of Liège. The Rida river has its springs in Vottem.

It was a fully-fledged municipality up to 1976. The Jolivet and Bernalmont hamlets had already been transferred to the town of Liège in 1975.

Hamlets and neighbourhoods

• Bouxhtay^[1], Å Bouh'tè, Å Bouf'tè^[2], hamlet mentioned since 1278
• Chapeauville, A chapêvêye, neighbourhood mentioned since 1534
• Cheval Blanc, Å blanc Dj'vå, after the "White Horse inn" that was located there
• Croix Jouette, Creû Djouwète, hamlet mentioned since 1552
• Gaillard-Cheval, Å Galiår, hamlet mentioned since 1530
• Gascogniers, Ås Cascognîs, hamlet mentioned since 1812
• Haxhes, Hå, Håhe
• Haren, Harin
• Jolivet, è Djolivè (hamlet mentioned since 1430; transferred to Liège in 1975)

Geology and soils

Vottem is at the limit of the Hesbaye Plateau and the Meuse valley. From higher to lower locations in the village, there are the following geological formations:^[3] · ^[4] · ^[5] · ^[6]:

• Pleistocene aeolian loess
• Tertiary sands (Oligocene)
• Clay with flint
• Maastrichtian chalk (Cretaceous) - it makes up the Hesbaye aquifer
• Herve clay or smectite
• Sandstone, schists and coal pertaining to the Palaeozoic (also called Houiller)

Locally, near the Rida springs, freshwater tufa has been deposited.

Dominant soils in Vottem are well drained loamy soils(Ab) and gravelly loamy soils with silex, quite well drained also (Gb). The latter are directly related to outcrops of clay-with-flint. Remarkably, on the soil map, spring areas are not differentiated, most probably in relation to a low augering density (one per ha)^[3] · ^[7].

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