Luxembourg City

We took a short train ride north from Paris into the tiny, but beautiful country of Luxembourg. After a couple hours staring out the windows at the sparsely populated countryside, we departing the train in the country’s capital, Luxembourg City.

Luxembourg is the ancestral home of Angela’s grandmother, on her father’s side of the family, Hellen Thill. The only record Angela has found that links her to her Luxembourgish ancestry, is a note in her grandmother’s address book, which listed the name of her great grandmother, Lena Meisch, followed by the words ‘Tuntingen, Mersch’.

… and so begins our detective work into the ancestral past of the Meisch family tree. We’ll post more on that later, but first, here are a few pictures from our time in Luxembourg City … enjoy!

The Alzette River winds though the city creating great cliffs and valleys.

Much of the ancient city walls and fortifications still survive, being integrated into the more modern buildings constructed around them.

Neumunster Abbey at sunset.

Inside the Casemates du Bock - a vast series of tunnels and galleries hollowed out of the cliffs. These fortifications are why the Fortress of Luxembourg was referred to as the “Gibraltar of the North.”

The Adolphe Bridge, as seen with the Constitution Square topiaries overlooking the Garden Luxembourg Park.

Cathedrale Norte-Dame