Préizerdaul

Commune in Redange, Luxembourg

Coat of arms

Map of Luxembourg with Préizerdaul highlighted in orange, and the canton in dark red

Coordinates: 49°47′39″N 5°56′15″E / 49.7942°N 5.9375°E / 49.7942; 5.9375Country

LuxembourgCantonRedangeArea

• Total15.6 km² (6.0 sq mi) • Rank72nd of 100Highest elevation

402 m (1,319 ft) • Rank48th of 100Lowest elevation

255 m (837 ft) • Rank58th of 100Population

(2023)

• Total1,827 • Rank85th of 100 • Density120/km² (300/sq mi) • Rank3rd of 100Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)LAU 2LU0000702Websitepreizerdaul.lu

Préizerdaul (Luxembourgish pronunciation: [ˈpʀəɪ̯tsɐdɑʊ̯l] ^ⓘ) is a commune in western Luxembourg, in the canton of Redange. Until 17 July 2001, it was known as Bettborn, after its administrative centre.^[1] Préizerdaul was the first commune to change its name since before the First World War; to date, it is the only commune to have changed its name to a name of Luxembourgish origin.

Towns within the commune include Bettborn, Platen, Pratz, and Reimberg.

Population

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

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Notable people

James Schwebach (1847 in Platen – 1921) a Luxembourgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church & Bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse in Wisconsin, 1892/1921
Emile Calmes (born 1954 in Luxembourg City), a Luxembourgish politician; became Mayor of Préizerdaul in 1982

Twin towns — sister cities

Préizerdaul is twinned with:^[3]

Péni, Burkina Faso
San Agustín, El Salvador

References

^ "Mémorial A, 2001, No. 91" (PDF) (in French). Service central de législation. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2004. Retrieved 2006-08-11.
^ "Population par canton et commune". statistiques.public.lu. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
^ "Préizerdauler noriichten 1/2019" (PDF). preizerdaul.lu (in German). Préizerdaul. p. 31. Retrieved 2019-09-08.