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The country of Luxembourg, known as The Land of the Haunted
Castles, is located in Western Europe along the Moselle River, and bordered by Germany,
France and Belgium. This tiny country of only 999 square miles has over 100 castles, most
of which have partly tumbled down and rise on hilltops like huge gray ghosts. Luxembourg
was once a land of warlike feudal knights who were quick to attack their neighbor's land
or to defend their own. One third of the land is now covered by forest. Not more than 150
years ago, however, it was complete forest.
As this country grows, more and more people are moving into the
growing cities this country has to offer, mainly the capitol city of Luxembourg. Children
start school at the age of 6, and go for 8 years. They learn Lutzeburgesch, a Germanic
language with some French added in the first grade, and then French in the third grade.
They also learn English in high school. This country has no universities, so students must
go to neighboring countries for further education.
Luxembourg Search Engines
- The Luxembourg Homepage - Luxembourg is the home of my Michaelis
ancestors.
- A Pilgrim's Progress
- This website built by the Institut Grand-Ducal illustrates a emigrant's
itinerary from Luxembourg to the United States. Pretty cool as it probably follows our
immigrant ancestor Henri Michaelis's footsteps very closely. In 1846 it took 30 days by
coach to get from Luxembourg to the French port of La Havre!
- Fanfare Garnich -
This is a 17 page chapter from the book "Fanfare Garnich" that deals with Dahlem
(located in the Garnich area), it's history and it's immigrants to America.
Translated by Fausto Gardini who owns the website "Luxembourg On My Mind",
it contains lots of information about my Michaelis ancestors and the other people who lived in, and immigrated from, the Garnich & Dahlem
area of Luxembourg.
- Luxembourg Society for Linguistic, Ethnological
and Dialectic Studies - Got that name? Cool site with lots of info.
- Luxemburgian
Civic Arms - Coats of Arms for many of Luxembourg's municipalities.
- Luxembourg On My Mind - Fausto Gardini maintains a site to
assist descendants of Luxembourg emigrants in their quest to trace relatives and
ancestors. Check it out!
- GeneLux
- If you are searching for online Luxembourg-American genealogy sources, this is a good
place to start.
- Medernach -
A Web site by Martin Brouwer about the village of Medernach, Luxembourg, the
surname, and the people who immigrated from there.
- Luxembourg
Tourist Office - Lots of cool Luxembourg information here!
- Luxembourg
Central - Packed into 2,586 square kilometers are many impressive medieval
castles, beautiful scenery, and historical artifacts dating back to the Roman occupation.
- A Visit To Luxembourg - Let's visit the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg, that tiny country nestled between Germany, France and Belgium…
- History of Luxembourg - Here you can find links to 4000 year old
Luxembourg artifacts, the Luxembourg Constitution, the World War 1 Document Archive and
more.
- Luxembourg Today - Want to know what time it is in Luxembourg?
Lots of travel related links here as wll as a currency converter and a hotel reservation
form.
- A Historical
Survey of Luxembourg - The territory of present-day Luxembourg is located in
the heartland of the Civitas Trevirorum, the land of the Gaulish people of the Treveri.
- Luxembourg
gazetteer of villages and towns - Luxembourg place names of villages and
towns in French, German and Luxembourgish.
- Editions
Phi, Luxembourg - Publishing of literature, theater and arts in Luxembourg
- Welcome to
Maacher Jugend - The first Luxembourg youth club at the Internet. Come in and
join it!
- Luxembourg City Tourist Office The Grand Duchy's Capital City
- National
Geographic on Luxembourg
- Rough
Guide entry for Luxembourg
- Luxembourg at your fingertips - A page with lots of travel
information and tourist tips.
- Globetrotter
Luxembourg
- Luxair
- The National Airline's Home Page
- Centre de
Recherche Public Henri Tudor - The National Research Centre's Home Page
- Languages
de Luxe - Translations and Publications on Luxembourg
- Luxembourg
Wines - Vinsmoselle, Luxembourg's largest Wine Cooperative Cellars. YUMMY!
- Folk Music
from Luxembourg in Midi format.
- Archaeology
in Luxembourg
- Luxembourg
Telephone Directory -
- Luxembourg News
- Luxembourg's online daily newspaper, English version. Read today's news!
- mail.lu
- The Luxembourg email directory.
- Currency
Converter - How many Luxembourg Francs did you say were in a dollar?
- American
Chamber of Commerce in Luxembourg - If you are planning a trip to the
"old country" then a visit to this site is essential. Lots of useful addresses
like the American Embassy in Luxembourg and Tax Information for US Citizens.
- The Luxembourg Flag
- Everything you always wanted to know about Luxembourg's flags.
- Tour de
Luxembourg - Luxembourg's great yearly bicycle race (in French)
- Rollingstone
- In the mid 1850's the village of Rollingstone, Minnesota, (now a city) was founded by
citizens of the Grand Duchy.
- National Museum
of Natural History -
- Hotels of the
Grand Duchy - A great hotel and restaurant guide for Luxembourg.
- W.A.K.Y. Radio
- 107 FM, a Luxembourg radio station.
- Luxembourg
Stock Exchange -
- CLUDEM
- The Luxembourg Centre of Medieval Documentation & Studies.
- Brief History of Luxembourg
- "Borrowed" from the Luxembourg World GenWeb site.
- Jhemp Biver
Homepage - Jhemp is an elementary school teacher living near Echternach,
Luxembourg.
- Richard
Duprel Homepage - Besides listing his family genealogy Richard
has built an online Luxembourg Picture Show. Richard also offers
professional Luxembourg research.
 If you have a Luxembourg related page and would like it
listed here, just send me an E-mail with the URL
and a brief description and I will be happy to check it out. My address is Art@ArtMichaelis.com and I welcome all your
comments and suggestions!
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