Bissen

Bite ( Luxembourgish Biissen ) is a municipality in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, in the canton of Mersch.

Composition of the community

The municipality consists of the villages bite bite and Roost.

It belongs to the following community organizations: SICONA -Centre, SIDEC, SIDEN, SIGI, SYVICOL.

Geography

Bite is on the Attert, in the district of Luxembourg and in the canton of Mersch. There are 586.93 hectares of forest Of the total area of 2,075 ha.

History

The existence of bites is evidenced by a document from the year 960, in which the independence of the parish Mersch is mentioned. Thus, the parish celebrated its thousand years of existence in 1960.

Community self-government

The council is composed of the following persons:

  • Jos Schummer, Mayor
  • David Viaggi, first alderman
  • Frank Clement, second Alderman
  • Aloyse builders, consultants
  • Alain celebration iron, consultants
  • John Feith, consultants
  • Romain Lucas, consultant
  • Georges Lucius, consultants
  • Roger Saurfeld, consultants

Mayor

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Carlo Hommel (* September 24, 1953 in bite; † 8 March 2006), organist

Miscellaneous

  • Worth seeing is the organ in the parish church, which was built in 1891 by the Brothers Mueller.
  • Cause and the manner of disposal of a long-standing illegal tire dump near the Attert have remained unexplained.
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