Rumelange
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Rumelange (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx Script error: No such module "IPA".) is a commune with town status in south-western Luxembourg, on the border with France.
Populated places
The commune consists of the following villages:
- Rumelange
- Haut-Tétange (lieu-dit)
Population
History
Rumelange was formed on 25 September 1891, when it was detached from the commune of Kayl. The law forming Rumelange was passed on 27 June 1891.[2]
Population
As of 1 January 2023, the commune had a population of 5,692.
Museum
It is the site of some of the underground iron mines no longer in operation. Rumelange is home to Luxembourg's National Mining Museum.[3]
Notable people
- Batty Weber (1860–1940) an influential journalist and author
- Alfred Kieffer (1904–1987) a Luxembourgian footballer, competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Foni Tissen (1909–1975) a Luxembourg schoolteacher and artist of hyperrealistic, darkly humorous paintings
- Ernest Toussaint (1908–1942) boxer, competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics; resistance member
- Emile Kirscht (1913–1994) a Luxembourg painter and a co-founder of the Iconomaques group of abstract artists in Luxembourg [4]
- Raymond Vouel (1923–1987), a Luxembourg politician and Deputy Prime Minister, 1974/1976
Twin towns — sister cities
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References
External links
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- ↑ "National Mining Museum" Template:Webarchive. Retrieved 20 February 2011.
- ↑ "Emile Kirscht", Luxemburger Lexikon, Editions Guy Binsfeld, Luxembourg 2006
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