LUXEMBOURG
Welcome to the digital photobook of our holiday to Luxembourg from the 13th to the 31st of July. You can find a compilation of our nicest pictures and a small description of our holiday. When you click on the photos they will open in a new screen at a bigger format.
In a short time there will be a special and new site online with loads of information of the cities and villages of Luxembourg!
The place where we made up our camp: Echternach
We stayed in Echternach during the holiday's. This lies in the east of Luxembourg near the beginning of Germany. Echternach (Luxembuorg) is separated of Germany by the river the Sūre. Echternach has 5100 inhabitants and lies at a height of 165 meters above sea level. Echternach is well known for its beautifull and big basilisk. This basilisk is funded by the holy St. Willebrord in the 7th century afther Christ. Echternach also has watersport facilities, a big lake, a beatifull car-free promenade on which you can walk at the side of the Sūre, a car-free shopping street, a beautifull market square with a couple of cafés and an indoor swimming pool.
At Echternach loads of paths that go into the Müllerthal start. Echternach also has a nice environment for bicycling. You can go anywhere in Luxembourg when you are staying at Echternach, you can go to Ettelbrück, Luxembourg City, Wasserbillig / Grevenmacher and some other cities and villages easily. You can also travel to an other place by bus and go anywhere else from there.
PHOTO 1: View over the market square
PHOTO 2: The basilisk
PHOTO 3: The Orangerie
PHOTO 4: Part of the city house
PHOTO 5: Car-free shopping street
PHOTO 6: Middle aged view through the shopping street
Monday, July 14th 2003 - Clervaux
Clervaux has 1800 inhabitants and lies in a deep and narrow valley at the side of the river the Clerve in the heart of the Ardennes in Luxembourg. The village can be found at a height of 320 meters above sea level. There's also a Benedictan monks church that is built in Roman-Burgundian style. This church lies at 520 meters above sea level and has a view over the surroundings of Clervaux.
PHOTO 7: View from the village on the church
PHOTO 8: The market square
PHOTO 9: The shopping street
PHOTO 10: The church
PHOTO 11: Station
PHOTO 12: Arriving train
Wednesday and Thursday, July 16th and 17th 2003 - Müllerthal (route Grundhof - Berdorf - Echternach)
The Müllerthal lies at the eastern side of Luxembourg to the German border. This area consists out of sandstonerocks that were grinded out by small rivers. The Müllerthal is also calles "Little Switserland" becuase of its high rock walls. The route Grundhof - Berdorf (about 6 kilometers) is one of the most beautifull routes. You can find the Amphitheater and the millstonecaves between Berdorf and Echternach. A picture of this can be found underneath.
PHOTO 13, 14 AND 15: Route Grundhof - Berdorf, with its high rock walls and a maze of rocks and narrow passages.
PHOTO 16: The Amphitheater
PHOTO 17: A cave that's mined out for millstones
PHOTO 18: The Perecop (Pears Head) with rocks that are 50 meters at an angle of 90 degrees above the road
Monday, July 21st 2003 - Vianden, Diekirch and Ettelbruck
Vianden, Diekirch and Ettelbruck can all be found in the Ardennes of Luxembourg. Vianden has 1600 inhabitants and lies at 210 meters above sea level. The castle and the central station of the cable car can be found at 510 meters above sea level and you have a beautifull view over the rest of the surroundings here. What's special about Vianden is that it lies by the water reservoirs and the lock gate of the river of SEO. A small walk from the mountain station of the cable car gives you a magnificent view to this lock gate. The castle was once in hands of the Oranjes of Nassau of Holland and is now restaurated. It's the most beautifull castle of the area of the Ardennes and the Eifel.
PHOTO 19: The castle of Vianden
PHOTO 20: View over the lock gate just outside of Vianden
PHOTO 21: View over Vianden from the cable car
Diekirch is quite a big city with its 6000 inhabitants. It's placed at 200 meters height next to the river the Sūre. Diekirch has in its old centre a pedestrian zone where shops and cafés can be found.
PHOTO 22: Pedestrian / shopping zone
PHOTO 23: The central square of Diekirch
PHOTO 24: Eglise St. Laurent
Ettelbruck is also qiute a big city with 7500 inhabitants. It lies at 210 meters height. Ettelbruck is a good place to get to know all about Luxembourg. That's because it has a staion that's placed at centre Luxembourg.
PHOTO 25: The local hospital
PHOTO 26: Pedestrian / shopping zone
PHOTO 27: The station
Wednesday, July 23rd 2003 - Luxembourg-city
Luxembourg-city has 80.0000 inhabitants and because of this it's smaller than an average city in Holland. Luxembourg city is placed on some plateau's (408 meters above sealevel) that are connected with each other by some beautifull and enormous bridges. There's also a city at the bottom of Luxembourg city that lies at 230 meters above sea level. This is really worth visiting too.
PHOTO 28: The loving character of the city in the valley
PHOTO 29: A bridge seen from the city in the valley
PHOTO 30: The busiest bridge of Luxembourg
A walk through Luxembourg city is certainly worth doing. The station is only three minutes away (by foot) from the shopping area where you can find long streets and some smaller ones only filled with shops. Not far from this is the palace of the duke of Luxembourg, the casermattes and the beautifull overview to the bottom city.
PHOTO 31: Beautifull view over the city in the valley
PHOTO 32: The palace of the duke
PHOTO 33: The "bockrock" in which the cassermattes are hidden
Friday, July 25th 2003 - Wasserbillig and Grevenmacher
Wasserbillig and Grevenmacher both lie at the Mosel area of Luxembourg where making wine is the main profit. Wasserbillig has 2300 inhabitants and lies at 138 meters above sea level. The mighty Moselvally and the romantic valley of the Sūre come together here. At the place where the Sūre is flooding over in the Mosel (the most eastern side of Luxembourg) is a big mosaik panel that shows the land of the duke with its waterways.
PHOTO 34: The church of Wasserbillig
PHOTO 35: The point where the Sūre streams over in the Mosel
PHOTO 36: The train bridge that crosses over just before the Sūre streams over in the Mosel
Grevenmacher has 3900 inhabitants and lies at 138 meters height. It's the capital of the Luxembourg Mosel area. Grevenmacher is an important wine centre and it also has place for shops and working areas. There's also a car-free centre with narrow streets, ruins of medieval castles and wine cellars of famous wines such as "Caves Bernard-Massard". When you walk to the Mosel in the direction of the city Mertert you walk under a bridge that connects Grevenmacher with Germany. Here you can see the lock gates of the river the Mosel in Grevenmacher.
PHOTO 37: The village with its French influences
PHOTO 38: View through the shopping street
PHOTO 39: The lock gates of the Mosel
Monday, July 28th 2003 - Esch sur Sūre
Esch sur Sūre is a small village with about 240 inhabitants and it lies at 280 meters above sea level. Esch sur Sūre is hidden between some mountains and is surrounded by the Sūre that streams in an angle of 180 degrees around the village. (around the mountain where the village is built) Esch sur Sūre is one of the most beautifull villages of the country and lies in the area above the Sūre. This area is famous for its reservoir and lock gates..
PHOTO 40: View over the village where the Sūre streams around in an angle of 180 degrees
PHOTO 41: The village with its castle ruins at the background
PHOTO 42: A small lock gate in Esch sur Sūre
Tuesday, July 29th 2003 - Larochette
Larochette can be found in the famous Müllerthal area where high rock walls and narrow passages can be found. Larochette has 1750 inhabitants and lies at 268 meters above sea level. It lies at the river the White Ernz, this river streams into the Sūre for about 10 kilometers further. Larochette is famous for its big castle ruins that seem magnificent at the first sight, but isn't when you pay a visit to it. One part of the castle is reastaurated. For 1,50 Euro a person you can visit the castle, the ruins and the restaurated part. Larochette itself has several cafés, shops and a small market square with a kiosk on it.
PHOTO 43: The main way of Larochette where several cafés, the market square and some shops can be found
PHOTO 44: The castle is seen high above the village
PHOTO 45: A part of the castle ruins
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