Rumelange

Rumelange ( Luxembourgish Rëmeleng, French Rumelange ) is a city and a municipality in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, in the canton Esch -sur-Alzette.

History and Sights

Rumelange is an independent municipality since 1892 and was awarded city status in 1907.

The village is dominated by the parish church of St. Sebastian. Built in 1894-1896 by the architect Jean -Pierre Knepper stately house of God belongs construction, equipment and murals on the best- preserved neo-gothic sacral buildings of the Grand Duchy.

National Museum of the Luxembourg iron ore mines

The museum, a project in particular of the Mayor André Zirves and the two aldermen Will Hoffmann and Jean Krings, was opened on May 4, 1973. The collection includes tools, machinery and archival documents that have to do with the extraction of iron ore from the mid-19th century to the 1980s.

The museum is partially set in a disused mine shaft 106 feet below the surface for a length of 900 meters.

The Company MMR - A, which shared with the " Arbed " the mining concessions on the Rumelange spell had, to the pit " Walert " offered that is not far from the city center. In " Walert " was killed in an accident on February 12, 1935, the trade unionists, mayors and deputy Jean -Pierre Bausch.

In the machine hall of the MMR -A an exhibition about the miner system was set up and a small restaurant with sanitary facilities. A playground with a small railroad was created and extended the tour of the tunnels. Then, a forge was set up in the machine shed, which is operated by the blacksmiths of the Association Hephaestus. After all, the two trains are parked, the visitors go three kilometers of the facilities, to the former pits " Rembour " performed by a grove of Mine " Laangegronn " where the trains drive into the tunnel.

Musée National des Mines

Famous people

• Raymond Vouel (1923-1987), Luxembourg politician
• James Borges ( * 1988), Luxembourgish singer