District italy
Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '26.1 " N , 6 ° 4' 42" E
The Italy district is a residential area in the Brucheschdall district of the Luxembourg city of Dudelange .
In italy Quartier live to this day many people who do not have Luxembourg nationality have. The quarter was called the "Italian Quarter" or "Little Italy" because a large number of Italians had settled there around 50 to 60 years ago . Most of them had come to Luxembourg to work in the steel industry ( Arbed ).
In the small part of town there are some cafes, restaurants and a school. Today live here mostly Portuguese .
Louis Rech , Mayor of Dudelange from 1985 to 1993, came with his parents from Italy and grew up here.
Individual evidence
- ^ Serge Kollwelter : M. Louis Rech: ler bourgmestre Italy. Entrevue avec M. Louis Rech, bourgmestre de Dudelange (PDF; 290 kB) forum , 09/1985
literature
- Christian Kandzia, Antoinette Reuter, (ed.): "Little Italy" - a residential island between industrial wasteland and nature reserve . 2008. ISBN 1-9220-5213-2 .
- Christian Kandzia, (Ed.): A la découverte de la Petite Italie . Center de documentation on les migrations humaines , 2008. ISBN 2-9599811-9-7 .