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coat of arms map
Rambruch coat of arms Location of Rambruch in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Basic data
State : LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg
Coordinates : 49 ° 50 '  N , 5 ° 51'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 49 '46 "  N , 5 ° 50' 59"  E
Canton : Redingen
Residents : 4419 (January 1, 2019)
Area : 79.1 km²
Population density : 55.9 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number: 0704
Website: www.rambrouch.lu
politics
Mayor: Antoine Rodesch ( CSV )
Elective system : Majority vote

Rambruch ( Luxembourgish Rammerech , French Rambrouch ) is a municipality in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and belongs to the canton of Redingen . It was created on January 1, 1979 through the merger of the municipalities of Arsdorf, Bondorf, Folscheid and Perl.

The third highest point in the country, the Napoléonsgaard at 549 meters, is located in the municipality .

When Luxembourgish and Moselle Franconian are assigned to the German dialect continuum , the municipality of Rambruch represents the westernmost point of the closed German-speaking area in Central Europe. The counterpart is the municipality of Deutsch Jahrndorf in Austria, 850 kilometers to the east .

Daughters and sons of the church

  • Albert Wingert (1897–1962), teacher, politician and resistance activist against National Socialism, born in Holtz

Composition of the community

The municipality of Rambruch consists of the following localities:

Individual evidence

  1. STATEC Luxembourg - Population par canton et commune 1821–2019 (French)

Web links

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