Arlon

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Arlon
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Arlon (Luxembourg)
Arlon
Arlon
State : BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Region : Wallonia
Province : Luxembourg
District : Arlon
Coordinates : 49 ° 41 ′  N , 5 ° 49 ′  E Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′  N , 5 ° 49 ′  E
Area : 118.64 km²
Residents: 29,858 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density: 252 inhabitants per km²
Post Code: 6700, 6704, 6706
Prefix: 063
Mayor: Vincent Magnus ( cdH )

Local government address : 		Collège des Bourgmestre et Echevins
Rue Paul Reuter, 8
6700 Arlon
Website: www.arlon.be
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Arlon ( German and Luxembourgish Arel , Dutch Aarlen , in German the French name is mostly used today) is a city in the south-east of Belgium in the Wallonia region with 29,858 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019). It is the capital of the Belgian province of Luxembourg .

In and around Arlon ( Areler Land ), in addition to French , a Moselle-Franconian dialect that is closely related to Luxembourgish and threatened with extinction is spoken (Areler Platt) .

location

The city is on a hill, 404 m above sea level. M. on the banks of the Semois (German Setzbach or Sesbach ), near the border with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , about 190 km southeast of Brussels .

history

City view of Arlon
Saint Donat Church

Arlon originated from the Roman settlement of Orolaunum, which dates back to 52 BC. BC, and claims to be the oldest city in Belgium in competition with Tongeren and Tournai . Around 54 AD the place was at the intersection of the Roman roads from Reims to Trier and from Tongeren to Metz . In the 10th century, Arlon and its surrounding area first formed a county and later a margraviate . In the late Middle Ages, the county was ruled in personal union with Limburg until it passed to the Duchy of Luxembourg in 1214 .

When Luxembourg was divided into a Belgian and a grand-ducal part in 1839 as a result of the Belgian Revolution , Arlon and its surrounding area were added to the new, French-speaking province of Luxembourg , although the population spoke Moselle Franconian and not French . The reason was the lack of a larger city on the Belgian side that could have performed the function of an administrative center, as well as the high strategic and economic value of the north-south road - today's N 4 - via Bastogne , Attert and Arlon as a link and the shortest Link between the developing industrial centers of Liège / Liège in Belgium and Longwy in French Lorraine in the 19th century. In the following years, Arlon was equipped with government buildings, courts, museums and a rail connection. In 1976 the communities Autelbas / Niederelter, Bonnert / Bunnert, Fouches / Offen, Guirsch / Girsch, Heinsch / Heischlingen and Toernich / Törnich were incorporated.

The city reached the international media in the spring of 2004 as the venue for the murder of Marc Dutroux .

Attractions

St. Martin's Church with statue for King Albert I.

Arlon has many sights, such as the Grand Place (large square, the historical “Botermahrt” = butter market) or the Place Léopold (Leopoldsplatz, the historical “Fruchtmahrt” = grain or grain market) with the esplanade on the former ski jump.

Other attractions are

  • the St. Donatus Church (Eglise Saint-Donat) from the 17th century as part of a former Capuchin monastery on a hill in the old town (Areler Knippchen)
  • St. Martin's Church ( neo-Gothic , built in 1914; large organ with 52 registers , built in 1932 by Orgelbau Haupt )
  • the Luxembourg Museum with an important Gallo-Roman antiquities department
  • the synagogue (1865) and the oldest Jewish cemetery in Belgium
  • the train station (1885)
  • L'Entrepôt , the concert hall with a focus on contemporary music, is being renovated at a cost of 962,000 euros.
  • Copy of the Jupiter column in the pedestrian zone

An amulet capsule with runes and a Christian cross was found in a church grave.

  • War Memorial First World War

  • Downtown

  • Monument to the resistance in World War II

  • Arlon market square with American tank

  • Copy of the Jupiter column in the pedestrian zone

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education

Arlon is home to the Economics department of the Haute Ecole Catholique du Luxembourg Blaise Pascal (Catholic University of Luxembourg) and the technical departments of the Haute Ecole Robert Schuman . There is also a campus of the University of Liège and several higher vocational training institutions in Arlon.

Twin cities

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Arlon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wort.lu ( Memento from February 19, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Gertraud and Heinz-Egon Rösch: Romerstrassen between the Moselle and Rhine - On the way to Roman finds worth seeing. ISBN 978-3-00-029335-1 , p. 80.
  3. ↑ hebp.be ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. University website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hebp.be
  4. ↑ hers.be website of the university