Bad Mondorf
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| Basic data | |
| State : |
 Luxembourg
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| Coordinates : | 49 ° 30 ' N , 6 ° 17' E |
| Canton : | Remich |
| Residents : | 5273 (January 1, 2019) |
| Area : | 13.7 km² |
| Population density : | 386 inhabitants / km² |
| Municipality number: | 1204 |
| Website: | www.mondorf-les-bains.lu |
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| Mayor: | Steve Reckel ( DP ) |
| Elective system : | Proportional vote |
Bad Mondorf ( Luxembourgish Munneref , French Mondorf-les-Bains ) is a municipality in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and belongs to the canton of Remich . Mondorf is best known for its thermal baths and the only casino in Luxembourg.
Composition of the community
The municipality consists of the localities
- Altwies
- Bad Mondorf
- Ellingen
history
Bad Mondorf is the northern part of the smaller French municipality Mondorff , which came to France in 1769 (see also list of shared places ) .
The place name is supposedly derived from Muomina, a niece of Charlemagne .
Sports
Bad Mondorf hosted the European Dressage Championships twice - in 1989 and 1995 . From 1983 to 2002 (with the exception of the European championship years) an international show jumping and dressage tournament was held. In 2003 and 2008, the CDIO *** tournament in Luxembourg including a dressage Nations Cup took place here. Bad Mondorf was also the starting point for a stage of the Tour de France 2017 .
see also: List of European champions in dressage riding
Camp Ashcan
Ashcan or Camp Ashcan (English for ash bucket ) was the code name of a formerly kept secret Allied prisoner camp under American leadership (officially: Central Continental Prisoner of War Enclosure No. 32 ) at the end of the Second World War , which was set up in the Palace Hotel in Mondorf. Between May and September 1945, almost all of the great Nazi prisoners such as Göring , Ribbentrop and Streicher, as well as high-ranking military officials such as Alfred Jodl, were arrested and interrogated here before they were brought to the war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg .
However, the Americans could not keep what was going on behind the barbed wire completely secret: Mondorf contemporary witnesses said that they snuck around the camp as children during the long holidays to “watch the Görings” .
After the prisoners were brought to Nuremberg in September 1945, Camp Ashcan was disbanded. The building served as a hotel for a few decades before it was demolished in 1988 to make way for the modern thermal bath.
church
Kurhaus in the Kurpark
Old pump room in the spa gardens
John Green Monument
Personalities
- John Grün (1868–1912) was a Luxembourg strong man who was considered the strongest person in the world at the time.
- Auguste Liesch (1874–1949) was a Luxembourg lawyer, politician & writer, known for his work “ d'Maus Ketti ”.
- Jeff Strasser (* 1974), former soccer player, played in the German Bundesliga and for the Luxembourg national team.
- Fränk Schleck (* 1980) is a former Luxembourg professional road cyclist.
- Andy Schleck (* 1985) is a former Luxembourg professional road cyclist.
