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13-510: As of 2023, the commune has a population of 11,363. Schifflange was formed on 15 August 1876, when it was detached from the commune of Esch-sur-Alzette . The law forming Schifflange was passed on the 6 July 1876. A steelworks in Schifflange was founded in 1871 by the Metz family as Usine METZ (Esch-Schifflange) , the steelworks became part of ARBED in 1911. In the 1980s the plant was converted to

26-595: A Luxembourg film production company had depicted a 40,000 m and 15 meter high backdrop built for the feature film Secret Passage with John Turturro on the Terre Rouge , a site of a former steelwork in Esch-sur Alzette. The filmset represents the contemporary Venice of the 16th century with a 600 meter long copy of the Grand Canal and 118 house facades. The "Venice-sur-Alzette" was built for around 5 million Euro and

39-507: A result of the steel crisis , the mines and many of the blast furnaces were shut down, the last one, in Esch-Belval, definitively halting its operations in 1997. The blast furnaces were replaced by an electric furnace that is fed with scrap metal rather than iron ore. Today the industrial wastelands on Belval left behind by the steel industry, are being redeveloped and converted into a new, modern town quarter. New cultural buildings such as

52-715: A system of proportional representation . Currently the mayor is Christian Weis, of the Christian Social People's Party (CSV). The governing majority on the council consists of the CSV, the DP and The Greens. The Lankelz miniature railway operates on Sunday afternoons and public holidays from May to mid-October. Esch is home to the Esch Conservatory of Musi. The city has the longest shopping street in Luxembourg. In 2001,

65-615: Is a city in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the country's second-most populous commune , with a population of 36,625 inhabitants, as of 2023 . It lies in the south-west of the country, on the border with France and in the valley of the Alzette , which flows through the city. The city is usually referred to as just Esch ; however, the full name distinguishes it from the village and commune of Esch-sur-Sûre which lies 45 kilometres (28 miles) further north. The country's capital, Luxembourg City ,

78-545: Is connected by lines 307, 312, 313 and 314 of the R.G.T.R. Esch-sur-Alzette is twinned with: Rockhal The Rockhal , officially Centre de Musiques Amplifiées , is a concert hall in Esch-sur-Alzette , in southern Luxembourg . It opened on 23 September 2005, has a maximum capacity of 6,500 people and is sited on the former industrial site of Belval in the west of Esch . The Rockhal consists of four different parts: Since its opening, Rockhal has been one of

91-511: Is roughly 15 km (9.3 mi) to the north-east. Esch was selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2022, alongside Kaunas and Novi Sad . The town was mentioned for the first time in 12 April 1128 in a message for Pope Honorius II . For a long time Esch was a small farming village in the valley of the Uelzecht river. This changed when important amounts of iron ore were found in

104-408: The area in the 1850s. With the development of the mines and the steel industry the town's population multiplied tenfold in a couple of decades. In 1911 the steel- and iron-producing company ARBED was founded. The development of the steel industry, especially in the south of the country, provided Luxembourg with sustained economic growth during the second half of the 19th century. In the 1970s, as

117-570: The cinema Kinepolis Belval in the Belval Plaza shopping mall and the Rockhal , Luxembourg's biggest concert hall have been made. The area around the old blast furnaces will host different structures of the University of Luxembourg , many research centres and the national archives. Esch is governed by its communal council, consisting of 19 councillors. Communal elections take place every 6 years, under

130-461: The continuous casting of blooms , then in the 1990s an electric furnace installed. In 1994 the company merged with the Belgian company Métallurgique et Minière de Rodange-Athus (MMRA) forming ARES ( Aciéries Rodange Esch-Schifflange ). In the first decade of the 21st century ownership passed from Arcelor to ArcelorMittal , in 2008 becoming ArcelorMittal Rodange and Schifflange S.A. together with

143-744: The plant in Rodange . The steelworks shut down in 2012 and were largely demolished starting in 2016. The site is due to be converted into a large mixed-use neighbourhood with housing for 10,000 residents, served by the planned Luxembourg - Esch-sur-Alzette light rail. Schifflange is twinned with: This article related to the geography of Esch-sur-Alzette canton is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Esch-sur-Alzette Esch-sur-Alzette ( French: [ɛʃ syʁ alzɛt] ; Luxembourgish : Esch-Uelzecht [ˌæʒ ˈuəltsəɕt] ; German : Esch an der Alzette [ˈɛʃ ʔan deːɐ̯ ʔalˈzɛt] or Esch an der Alzig )

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156-585: Was one of the largest open-air film sets in European film history. Between 2001 and 2007 many film productions used the gigantic filmset. Among others the feature films The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino and The Girl with the Pearl Earring with Scarlett Johansson were shot in Esch. In the summer of 2007, the filmset was torn down because the weather was affecting the buildings. The city of Esch-sur-Alzette

169-407: Was selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2022, alongside Kaunas and Novi Sad . Esch is connected by the bus lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 13, 15, and 17 of the communal public transport company T.I.C.E ( transports intercommunales du canton Esch/Alzette , intercommunal transportation of the canton Esch/Alzette), their maintenance depot and headquarter is situated in Esch, and Esch also

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