Schifflingen

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Schifflingen
coat of arms map
Coat of arms of Schifflingen Location of Schifflingen in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Basic data
Schifflange, seen from the "Plakeger Kopp" (2008)
Schifflange, seen from the "Plakeger Kopp" (2008)
State : LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg
Coordinates : 49 ° 30 '  N , 6 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 49 ° 30 '22 "  N , 6 ° 0' 43"  E
Canton : Esch on the Alzette
Residents : 11,180 (January 1, 2019)
Area : 7.71 km²
Population density : 1450 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number: 0214
Website: www.schifflange.lu
politics
Mayor: Paul Weimerskirch (CSV)
Elective system : Proportional vote

Schifflingen ( Luxembourgish Schëffleng , French Schifflange ) is a municipality in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and belongs to the canton of Esch an der Alzette .

Schifflingen is one of the smallest municipalities in the country in terms of its municipal area, but it ranks eighth in terms of population. New residential areas (e.g. "Cité Op Hudelen") and commercial areas have emerged, so that the mark of 10,000 inhabitants was cracked in 2017. With a population density of 1,346 inhabitants per square kilometer, Schifflingen is the third most densely populated town or municipality in Luxembourg after Luxembourg City and Esch / Alzette.

Nature, culture, history

The "Schëfflénger Bierg" is accessible as a local recreation area through an eight kilometer long circular hiking trail that starts at the sports center / swimming pool. The mountain is located south of Schifflingen and consists of hills with a beech forest. Their excavation and backfill areas still testify to the earlier use by mining. On the former spoil heaps there is dry grass , which is particularly remarkable for the occurrence of orchids.

"Metzerschmelz"

A geological outcrop reveals the chalky sandstone formations of the upper Lias ; however, these only contain minette deposits in the Differdinger basin . On the Schifflinger Berg the layers leading to the Minette are higher, namely in the lower formations of the Dogger . The gray minette was dismantled from 1892 to 1927 in the “Gro Minière”. The tunnel was blown up by the German Wehrmacht to prevent resistance from hiding there. In 1865 Metz & Cie established the “Metzerschmelz” on the foothills of the Lallinger Berg. The "little bit" there led over the "Schwaarz Bréck", which was demolished at the end of the 1870s because of dilapidation. The company merged into ARBED ( Aciéries Réunies de Burbach, Eich, Dudelange ) on October 21, 1911 , and a steel and rolling mill was built.

After the occupation of Luxembourg by the German Wehrmacht on May 10, 1940, a resistance movement formed around the teacher Albert Wingert, which hid a printing press, an arms store and a secret transmitter in the cemetery on Schifflinger Berg. When general conscription was introduced for Luxembourgers in August 1942, a strike broke out across the country, to which the occupying power reacted with shootings, deportations to prisons and concentration camps and forced resettlements. In total, about a hundred Schifflingers lost their lives under National Socialism .

Parish partnership

Schifflingen's partner municipality is the Alsatian municipality of Drusenheim in the French department of Bas-Rhin .

sons and daughters of the town

People connected to the city

Web links

Commons : Schifflingen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. STATEC Luxembourg - Population par canton et commune 1821–2019 (French)
  2. Syndicat d'Initiative et de Tourisme, Schifflange 1994: Schëfflénger Bierg - circular hiking trail. (Brochure)