Schifflange
Schifflingen ( Luxembourgish Schëffleng, French ship Lange) is a municipality in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, in the canton Esch -sur-Alzette.
Ship Lange is one of the district area fro the smallest communities in the country, but is, in terms of the population, in ninth place. New residential areas and commercial areas are being created so that the 10,000 -inhabitant mark is exceeded in the foreseeable future.
Nature, culture, history
The " Schëfflénger Bierg " is developed by an eight -kilometer trail that starts at the sports center / swimming pool, a recreational area. The mountain is located south of Schifflingen and consists of hills with beech forest on limestone. Their excavation and Aufschüttungsflächen still testify, however, from the earlier use by the mining industry. In the former spoil heaps there is dry grass, which is particularly remarkable by the presence of orchids.
A geological outcrop exposes the calcareous sandstone formations of the upper Lias visible; but this only included in Differdange pool Minetteablagerungen. On the ship Linger mountain Minette bearing strata are higher, namely in the lower formations of the Dogger. The reduction in gray Minette was from 1892 to 1927 in the " Great Minière ". The tunnel was blown up by the German Wehrmacht, to prevent hid resisters there. Built in 1865 Metz & Cie " Metzerschmelz " at the foothills of Lallinger mountain. The " Binnchen " there has been guided through the " Schwaarz Bréck ", which was demolished in the late seventies due to disrepair. The company merged on October 21, 1911 in the ARBED ( Aciéries Réunies de Burbach, Eich, Dudelange), and it was built a steel plant and rolling mill.
After the occupation of Luxembourg by the German Wehrmacht on 10 May 1940 were down by the teacher Albert Wingert a resistance movement, which was hiding in the cemetery on the hill Linger ship a print shop, an armory and a secret radio. When conscription was introduced in August 1942 for Luxembourg, there was a strike throughout the country, to which the occupying Power responded with executions, deportations in prisons and concentration camps, and forced relocation. Overall, lost their lives under the Nazis about a hundred ship Linger.
Community partnership
Partner Municipality of Schifflingen is the Alsatian community Druze home in the French department of Bas- Rhin.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Astrid Lulling ( born 1929 ), politician
- Gilles Müller ( b. 1983 ), tennis player
- Nathalie Lamborelle (* 1988), cyclist
Those associated with the city
- Miralem Pjanic (* 1990), the Bosnian football player who played in the youth from FC Schifflange 95