Dudelange

Dudelange ( Luxembourgish Diddeleng, French Dudelange) is a city and a municipality in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. It belongs to the canton of Esch -sur-Alzette and is equipped with 19 292 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013) near the town of Esch -sur-Alzette, the most important industrial center of the country.

Geographical Location

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

The Neighborhood

  • Buringen ( Luxembourgish: Bireng )
  • Budersberg ( Luxembourgish: Butschebuerg )
  • Brill. The settlement was built on the initiative of the technical director of the steelworks Émile Mayrisch from 1898 and offered 126 workers' dwellings.
  • Gaffelt
  • Quartier italy. Set high on the hillside residential area near the work station is marked by the country of origin of its inhabitants.
  • Ribeschpont
  • Wolkeschdahl
  • Enamel
  • Dike
  • Strutzbierg

Traffic

Dudelange has on the CFL line 60a leading from Bettembourg to Volmerange, a railway station and three other stops: Dudelange - Usines, Dudelange-Centre, Dudelange Dudelange - and -Ville Burange.

The regional bus line 5 connects Dudelange Esch-sur- Alzette with, through Rumelange - Tétange - Kayl - Budersberg (district from Dudelange ) and runs every fifteen minutes. The final stop is the breakpoint Gemeng. Since 1999, the urban transport sector in addition a " Citybus " used that can hold every 250 meters.

The city is located southwest of the motorway crossing collectrice du Sud or motorway link with Saarland with the E 25 She is up-and downhill connected to both the motorway A13 ( Petingen -Saarbrücken ) and the A3 motorway from Thionville to Luxembourg ( city) has its own.

Sights, museums and libraries

  • Nature reserve Haard
  • Johannisberg with the ruins of the castle Johannisberg. Here was a medieval market town, which probably goes back to Celtic origins.
  • The old factory buildings Arbed
  • Neo-Gothic parish church of St. Martin from 1904 with a restored steel Huth organ of 1912
  • St. Eligius 's Chapel at the Cultural Op the melting
  • Museum of forced conscription ( Musée des Enrôlés de Force)
  • City Park Le'h with the climbing park Park Le'h Adventures and a course for children
  • Regional Cultural Centre ( CCRD ) Opderschmelz and the National Audiovisual Center ( CNA) in the same building
  • In the former water tower, the permanent photo exhibition The bitter years of Edward Steichen
  • City Museum ( Musée municipal )
  • Documentation Centre for Migration History ( Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines )
  • Art Galleries ( Centre d'art Dominique Lang, Centre d'art Nei light, Galerie d'Art Armand Gaash, Adam 's Art Gallery )
  • RTL radio tower

Sports

In Dudelange the football club is home to F91 Dudelange, Luxembourg champion who was ten times since 2000 (as of 2013). It carries out its home games in Jos Nosbaum Stadium. Greatest sporting achievements was the next round in 2012 against FC Red Bull Salzburg in qualifying for the Champions League.

Policy

Parish council

The municipal council is elected for six years.

The Tower of Dudelange

Near the city is the 285 m high radio tower Dudelange for FM and TV, which is designed as a free-standing lattice tower. On July 31, 1981 this radio tower was hit by RTL of a Belgian military plane approximately in the middle and then broke together. The cascading debris smashed a standing nearby house, killing the living in this house couple. The pilot of the accident machine also died. The radio tower was then rebuilt, but not quite as high as before the accident.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Andy Bausch ( born 1959 ), film director
  • Mars Di Bartolomeo ( born 1952 ), politician and journalist
  • Roland Bombardella ( born 1957 ), former sprinter and high commissioner for national protection
  • Alex Bodry (* 1958), politician
  • Colette Flesch ( b. 1937 ), politician and Fencing
  • Roger Gilson (1947-1995), cyclist
  • Jean Hengen (1912-2005), Archbishop of Luxembourg
  • Fleur Maxwell ( * 1988), figure skater
  • Etienne Schneider ( * 1971 ), politician
  • Eternal Tango, Rock Band
Voting system Lorraine (region) Volmerange-les-Mines Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois A13 motorway (Luxembourg) A3 motorway (Luxembourg) Stade Jos Nosbaum Dudelange Radio Tower Roeser Sanem
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