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unusual facts about Grand Duchy of Luxembourg



Eurovision Song Contest 1962

The city of Luxembourg, also known as Luxembourg City, is a commune with city status, and the capital of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

House of Nassau

The sovereigns of this house afterwards governed the Duchy of Nassau until 1866 and from 1890 the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

James Schwebach

James Schwebach was born at Platen, in the Préizerdaul commune of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, to Nicholas Joseph and Margaret (née Busch) Schwebach.

Radio 1212

Nachtsender 1212 broadcast from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg using the former commercial radio facilities known as Radio Luxembourg, which had been occupied and then liberated from German control during World War II.

Siegfried H. Elsing

On 15 May 2013, he took up office as Honorary Consul of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg for the State of North Rhine-Westfalia.


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Gustav Simon

Their job was to give the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg – now the CdZ-Gebiet Luxemburg– German administrative structures, and to make it an integral part of the Greater German Reich.

Lorry-Rail S.A.

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg subsidized facilities of the platform Bettembourg near Luxembourg.

Samuel Hirsch

In 1843 he was appointed chief rabbi of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg by King William II of the Netherlands.