Trip to Luxembourg with Tripmart
The
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourgish: Groussherzogtum Lëtzebuerg,
French:Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, German: Großherzogtum Luxemburg), is a
landlocked country in the Benelux bordered by Belgium, France and Germany,
lying at the crossroad of Germanic and Latin cultures. It is the only Grand
Duchy in the world and is the second-smallest of the European Union member
states.
With
a successful steel, finance and high technology industry, a strategic location
at the heart of Western Europe, more natural beauty than you might expect given
its size, and as one of the top three richest countries in the world,
Luxembourg enjoys a very high standard of living and has prices to match!
[edit]Understand
The
city of Luxembourg proper was founded in 963, and its strategic position soon
promised it a great fate. Luxembourg was at the crossroad of Western Europe and
became heavily fortified, and you can still see the extensive city walls and
towers that are its most distinctive cityscape. Due to its key position,
Luxembourg was raised up to a Duchy that included a much larger territory that
stretched in present-day Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and France. The powerful
Habsburg family kept its hand on it until the late Renaissance times.
After
the Napoleonic wars, the Duchy of Luxembourg was granted to the Netherlands. It
had a special status as a member of the German confederacy and the citadel was
armed with a Prussian garrison: Luxembourg was still a strategic lock that
everybody aimed at controlling. It was granted the title "Grand
Duchy" in 1815 but lost some territories that are today parts of France
and Germany.
During
the course of the 19th century, developments in warfare and the appearance of
artillery made Luxembourg obsolete as a stronghold, and it became little more
than a rural territory of no strategic interest whatsoever. The Germans
relinquished their rights over it and moved out their garrison, its western
half was granted to Belgium in 1839, and the Netherlands granted it complete
independence in 1867. Since then, Luxembourg arose from a poor country of
fields and farms to a modern economy relying on financial services and high-tech
industries.
Overrun
by Germany in both world wars, Luxembourg was one of the major battlefields of
the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944-1945, a story well documented in
the museum at Diekirch. The state ended its neutrality in 1948 when it entered
into the Benelux Customs Union and it joined NATO the following year. In 1957,
Luxembourg became one of the six founding countries of the European Economic
Community (later the European Union) and, in 1999, it joined the euro currency
area.
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