Dudelange

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Dudelange
coat of arms map
Coat of arms of Dudelange Location of Dudelange in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Basic data
Town hall of Dudelange
Town hall of Dudelange
State : LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg
Coordinates : 49 ° 29 '  N , 6 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '52 "  N , 6 ° 5' 1"  E
Canton : Esch on the Alzette
Residents : 21,087 (January 1, 2019)
Area : 21.4 km²
Population density : 986.3 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 3401-3598
Municipality number: 0203
Website: www.dudelange.lu
politics
Mayor: Dan Biancalana ( LSAP )
Elective system : Proportional vote
Park Émile Mayrisch

Dudelange ( Luxembourgish Diddeleng , French Dudelange ) is a city and a municipality in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . It belongs to the canton of Esch an der Alzette and, with 21,087 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019), is the most important industrial location in the country alongside the city of Esch an der Alzette .

Geographical location

Dudelange is located directly on the border with France, about halfway between the city of Luxembourg and Thionville in Lorraine . The neighboring French towns are Zoufftgen and Volmerange-les-Mines .

The neighborhoods

  • Büringen (Luxembourgish: Bireng)
  • Budersberg (Luxembourgish: Butschebuerg)
  • Brill. The settlement was built from 1898 on the initiative of the technical director of the steelworks Émile Mayrisch and offered 126 workers' apartments.
  • Gaffed
  • District italy . The residential area high on the hill near the works train station is shaped by the country of origin of its residents.
  • Ribeschpont
  • Wolkeschdahl
  • Enamel
  • Dike
  • Strutzbierg

traffic

Dudelange has two train stations and two stops on the CFL line 60a, which runs from Bettembourg to Volmerange : Dudelange-Usines , Dudelange-Center , Dudelange-Ville and Dudelange-Burange .

The regional bus line 5 connects Dudelange with Esch an der Alzette, via Rümelingen - Tétange - Kayl - Budersberg (district of Dudelange) and runs every quarter of an hour. The end of the line is the Gemeng stop . Since 1999, a “Citybus” has also been used for inner-city passenger transport, which can stop every 250 meters.

The city is located southwest of the motorway junction of the Collectrice du Sud or Saar motorway with the E 25 . It is connected to both the A13 motorway ( Pétange - Saarbrücken ) and the A3 motorway from Thionville to Luxembourg (city) via its own entrance and exit.

Sights, museums and libraries

Parish Church of St. Martin
Center national de l'audiovisuel (CNA)
  • Haard nature reserve
  • Johannisberg with the ruins of Johannisberg Castle . There was a medieval market town here, which probably goes back to Celtic origins.
  • the old factory halls of the Arbed
  • Neo-Gothic parish church of St. Martin from 1904 with a restored Stahlhuth organ from 1912
  • St. Eligius Chapel in the Op der Schmelz cultural center
  • Museum of the Forced Recruits ( Musée des Enrôlés de Force )
  • City park Lé'h with the climbing park Park Lé'h Adventures and a course for children
  • Regional Cultural Center (CCRD) Opderschmelz and the National Audiovisual Center (CNA) in the same building
  • The permanent photo exhibition The bitter years by Edward Steichen in the former water tower
  • City Museum ( Musée municipal )
  • Documentation Center for the History of Migration ( Center de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines )
  • Art galleries ( Center d'art Dominique Lang , Center d'art Nei licht , Galerie d'Art Armand Gaasch , Adam's Art Gallery )
  • RTL - broadcast tower

Sports

Dudelange is home to the F91 Dudelange football club , which has been Luxembourg champion 14 times (as of 2018) since 2000. He plays his home games in the Jos Nosbaum Stadium . The greatest sporting success is reaching the group stage of the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League . This could be repeated in the following season .

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council is elected for six years.

After the elections on October 8, 2017, the municipal council is composed as follows:

Political party Seats
LSAP 10
CSV 5
Déi Gréng 2
Déi Lénk 1
ADR 1

Twin cities

Dudelange has been partnered with the city of Lauenburg / Elbe in Schleswig-Holstein and the French municipality of Manom since 1958 , and with the Polish city ​​of Lębork since 2003 .

The transmission tower of Dudelange

Dudelange transmission tower

The 285 m high Dudelange transmission tower for VHF and TV, which is designed as a free-standing steel lattice tower, is located near the city . On July 31, 1981, this RTL transmission tower was hit roughly in the middle by a Belgian military aircraft and then collapsed. The falling debris smashed a nearby house and killed the couple living in that house. The pilot of the accident machine also died. The transmission tower was then rebuilt, but not quite as high as it was before the accident.

sons and daughters of the town

as well:

literature

  • Friedrich Toepfer: Side dishes. IX. The rule of Dudelange and the St. Johannsberg Castle . In: ders. (Ed.): Document book for the history of the royal and baronial house of the Voegte von Hunolstein , Vol. II. Jacob Zeiser, Nuremberg 1867, pp. 467–474. ( Google Books )
  • Fabian Trinkaus: Crisis upheaval and organizational relationships - The First World War and the European labor movement using the example of the smelting towns of Neunkirchen / Saar and Dudelange / Luxembourg , in: Year Book for Research on the History of the Labor Movement , Volume III / 2012.
  • François Hendrickx: Population movements in Dudelange at the beginning of industrialization. A contribution to the history of migration in the Bassin Minier . In: Héritages culturels dans la Grande Région: Saar-Lor-Lux-Rhénanie-Palatinat. - Luxembourg, 1996. - (Cahiers ISIS: fasc. IV / Center universitaire de Luxembourg), pp. 211-229.
  • Denis Scuto : 5 notices sur l'histoire de la nationalité, la grève des ouvriers italiens de Differdange de 1912, le résistant Henri Adam, l'antifasciste Guido Bagnoli, le couple Domenico Cancellieri (maçon) et Rosa Tancini (domestique) , dans: Retour de Babel: itinéraires, mémoires et citoyenneté . (Catalog de l'exposition tenue dans les halles de l'ancienne aciérie à Dudelange du 28 avril au 27 octobre 2007), dir. Antoinette Reuter et Jean-Philippe Ruiz, 3 volumes, Luxembourg, 2007.

Web links

Commons : Dudelange  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ↑ STATEC Luxembourg - Population par canton et commune 1821–2019 (French)
  2. ^ Antoine Lorang: Workers' Settlements - A form of living creates the city . In: The Luxembourg Atlas - Atlas du Luxembourg . Published by: University of Luxembourg , Emons, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-89705-692-3 . (Maps, photos, German / French texts). P. 78
  3. ↑ 2015 timetable for line 60a on the CFL website, (PDF; 1.5 MB), accessed on December 2, 2015
  4. ↑ Bus ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2011 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dudelange.lu
  5. ↑ Michel Pauly: Market places in the old duchy . In: The Luxembourg Atlas - Atlas du Luxembourg . Published by: University of Luxembourg , Emons, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-89705-692-3 . (Maps, photos, German / French texts). P. 22.
  6. ↑ Center culturel régional opderschmelz ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 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. on the city's website, accessed December 2, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dudelange.lu
  7. ↑ spiegel.de: Dudelange creates the sensation - first Luxembourg club in the Europa League
  8. ↑ tageblatt.lu: http://www.tageblatt.lu/headlines/die-sensation-ist-perfekt-duedelingen-estand-in-der-gruppenphase-der-europa-league/
  9. ↑ “La Ville de Dudelange est jumelée avec la commune française de Manom ​​et la ville allemande de Lauenburg / Elbe depuis 1958, ainsi qu'avec la commune polonaise de Lebork depuis 2003.” Retrieved on March 23, 2019, 3:51 pm