Aubange

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Aubange
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Aubange (Luxembourg)
Aubange
Aubange
State : BelgiumBelgium Belgium
Region : Wallonia
Province : Luxembourg
District : Arlon
Coordinates : 49 ° 34 '  N , 5 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '  N , 5 ° 48'  E
Area : 45.60 km²
Residents: 17.093 (Jan. 1, 2019)
Population density: 375 inhabitants per km²
Post Code: 6790, 6791, 6792
Prefix: 063

Local government address :
Administration Communale
rue Haute, 22
6791 Athus
Website: www.aubange.be
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Aubange (Luxembourgish Éibeng ; German Ibingen ; Walloon Åbindje ) is a Belgian municipality in the arrondissement of Arlon in the province of Luxembourg .

It is located near the border triangle of Belgium, Luxembourg and France. The French neighbor is Mont-Saint-Martin , the Luxembourg Pétange .

Aubange municipality

The current municipality of Aubange was formed on January 1, 1977 as part of the Belgian municipal reform . The previously independent neighboring communities Athus, Halanzy and Rachecourt were merged with Aubange, and the community has since consisted of the four districts mentioned. The following 8 localities belong to the municipality of Aubange:

official name (French) Walloon name Luxembourgish name German name
Aix-sur-Cloie Yache-so-Cloye Èsch op der Hurt Esch on the hurt
Athus Atu Attem Breath
Aubange Åbindje Éibeng Ibingen
Battincourt - Beetem Bettenhofen
Guerlange - Yawléng Gerlingen
Halanzy Halazi Hueldang Holdingen
Noedelange - Néidleng Niedlingen
Court of revenge Ratchcou Réiseg Rosy

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Athus container terminal

The community has a train station on the Athus – Libramont railway line .

Sons and daughters of the church

  • Robert-Joseph Mathen (1916–1997), Belgian bishop
  • Hubert Juin (pseudonym of Hubert Loescher, 1926–1987), Walloon-Belgian writer, poet, essayist and literary critic
  • Guy Blaise (* 1980), Belgian-Luxembourg soccer player

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.toerisme-nederland.info/aubange.html
  2. a b Luxembourg dictionary . Volume 1 / V. Published by Pierre Linden 1953.
  3. a b c d Luxembourg dictionary . Volume 1 / II. Impr. Pierre Linden 1950.
  4. ^ Luxembourg dictionary . Volume 1 / IV. Impr. Pierre Linden 1952.
  5. a b c Jörg Horn: Place name conflicts. Solutions for multilingual areas. Asgard Verlag 2004, page 81.
  6. ^ Luxembourg dictionary . Volume 2 / VII. Impr. Pierre Linden 1955.
  7. a b Luxembourg dictionary . Volume 2 / IX. Impr. Pierre Linden 1957.
  8. ^ Anne Jacquemin: La population d'Arlon en 1801. Etude socio-demographique. Annales de l'Institut archéologique du Luxembourg, Tome CXXX 1999, page 33.
  9. a b Luxembourg dictionary . Volume 4 / XVIII. Impr. Pierre Linden 1971.