Luxembourg Province

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( Dutch ) Luxembourg ( French )
Country:	Belgium
Region :	Wallonia
Capital:	Arlon
Area :	4,440 km²
Residents	284,638 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density	64 inhabitants / km²
surface	4,440 km²
Municipalities :	44
Website:	www.province.luxembourg.be
NIS code	80000
politics
Governor:	Olivier Schmitz ( CdH )
Location of the province in Belgium
44 municipalities in the province

The province of Luxembourg ( French Luxembourg , Walloon Lussimbork ) is a province in the Walloon part of Belgium . The province is located in southeast Belgium on the border with today's Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . The provincial capital is Arlon ( Arel in German and Luxembourg , Aarlen in Dutch ).

Luxembourg is the largest province in Belgium in terms of area, but also has the fewest inhabitants. It is divided into five administrative districts.

The Baraque de Fraiture near Vielsalm is at 652 m the highest point in the province.

history

At the time of the German Confederation, the area belonged to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. At that time the Grand Duke was the King of the Netherlands in personal union. After the Belgian Revolution of 1830 and the resulting secession of the southern provinces of the Netherlands, what was then Luxembourg was divided between Belgium and the Netherlands. The division ran only partially along the German-French language border.

Districts

The province of Luxembourg is divided into five districts. These are in French as arrondissements and in Dutch as arrondissementen referred. Sometimes the term arrondissement is also used in German, although district is the official term.

district	Communities	Residents January 1, 2019	Area km²	Density of population / km²	NIS code
Arlon	5	62,623	317.28	197	81000
Bastogne	8th	48,413	1,042.99	46	82000
Marche-en-Famenne	9	56,476	953.70	59	83000
Neufchâteau	12	63,375	1,354.57	47	84000
Virton	10	53,751	771.17	70	85000
Luxembourg Province	44	284,638	4,439.71	64	80000

See also : List of districts in Belgium

Communities

The province comprises a total of 44 municipalities (see info box for the location of the municipality in the province):

1. Arlon
2. Attert
3. Aubange
4. Bastogne
5. Bertogne
6. Bertrix
7. bouillon
8. Chiny
9. Daverdisse
10. Durbuy
11. Érezée
12. Étalle
13. Fauvillers
14. Florenville
15. Gouvy
16. Habay
17. Herbeumont
18. Hotton
19. Houffalize
20. La Roche-en-Ardenne
21. Léglise
22. Libin
23. Libramont-Chevigny
24. Manhay
25. Marche-en-Famenne
26. Martelange
27. Meix-devant-Virton
28. Messancy
29. Musson
30. Nassogne
31. Neufchâteau
32. Paliseul
33. Rendeux
34. Rouvroy
35. Sainte-Ode
36. Saint-Hubert
37. Saint-Léger
38. Tellin
39. Tenneville
40. Tintigny
41. Vaux-sur-Sûre
42. Vielsalm
43. Virton
44. Wellin

See also : List of former municipalities in the province of Luxembourg  and List of municipalities in Wallonia

Part of the municipal tasks of the municipalities is taken care of by the Intercommunale IDELUX .

economy

In comparison with the gross domestic product per capita in the European Union, expressed in purchasing power standards , the province of Luxembourg achieved an index of 75 (EU-25: 100) in 2015, significantly lower than the Belgian average of 119. Luxembourg thus has the lowest per capita economic output among all Belgian provinces.

In 2017 the unemployment rate was 6.7%.

Culture and sights

The most important cultural museum in the province is the Fourneau Saint Michel open-air museum with an agricultural and a mining history section. There are important megalithic sites near Wéris .

literature

• Nikolaus Warker : Wintergreen. Legends, stories, legends and fairy tales from the province of Luxembourg , Arlon 1890 ( digital copies ).

Web links

Commons : Province of Luxembourg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Province de Luxembourg
• Official website of the Belgian Luxembourg Tourism Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eurostat. Retrieved April 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Unemployment rate, by NUTS 2 regions. Retrieved November 5, 2018 .