Echternach

Echternach () is a commune in eastern Luxembourg, capital of the Echternach canton.  It is the oldest town with city rights in Luxembourg.

History
The town grew around the walls of the Abbey of Echternach, which was founded in  698  by St. Willibrord, an English monk from Ripon, Northumbria (in present-day North Yorkshire, England), who became the first bishop of Utrecht and worked to Christianize the Frisians.

The abbey were closed during the French revolution in 1797. Echternach was given city rights in the year 1236.

Geography
Echternach is in the east of the country near the border with Germany, on the banks of the Saar River.

The commune has an area of . The altitude is  high. At the city hall, the altitude  is  high.

Echternach is surrounded by four communes of Luxembourg: Rosport to the east and south, Bech to the southwest, and Berdorf and Consdorf to the west. To the north, the commune borders the Echternacherbrück municipality of the  Bitburg-Prüm district in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate; and to the northwest the Bollendorf municipality, also in the Bitburg-Prüm district of the Rhineland-Palatinate.

Population
There were 5,530 persons living in the commune in 2017, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

Evolution of the population in Echternach

 Gallery 

Related pages
 Cantons of Luxembourg
 Communes of Luxembourg
 List of cities in Luxembourg

References

Other websites

 Official website 
Tourist attractions in Echternach 
Surroundings of Echternach
Harmonie Municipale Echternach
Intramuros asbl. - For the development of the historical center of Echternach 
Everything about Echternach

Category:Communes of Echternach