Campus Geesseknäppchen is a
campus
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a college campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls, student centers or dining halls, and park-like se ...
in
Luxembourg City
Luxembourg ( lb, Lëtzebuerg; french: Luxembourg; german: Luxemburg), also known as Luxembourg City ( lb, Stad Lëtzebuerg, link=no or ; french: Ville de Luxembourg, link=no; german: Stadt Luxemburg, link=no or ), is the capital city of the Lu ...
, in southern
Luxembourg
Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...
, that is shared by a number of academic institutions.
The campus is located in the southwest of the city, just to the north of the terminus of the
A4 motorway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated. Common English terms are freeway, motorway and expressway. Other similar terms i ...
. It is predominantly in the
quarter A quarter is one-fourth, , 25% or 0.25.
Quarter or quarters may refer to:
Places
* Quarter (urban subdivision), a section or area, usually of a town
Placenames
* Quarter, South Lanarkshire, a settlement in Scotland
* Le Quartier, a settlement ...
of
Hollerich
Hollerich ( lb, Hollerech) is a quarter in south-western Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg.
, the quarter has a population of 7,132 inhabitants.
Hollerich railway station is located on Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois Line 70, which conne ...
, although the western part (including the
Conservatoire
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...
) lies in
Merl.
Shaped roughly like a
right triangle
A right triangle (American English) or right-angled triangle (British), or more formally an orthogonal triangle, formerly called a rectangled triangle ( grc, ὀρθόσγωνία, lit=upright angle), is a triangle in which one angle is a right an ...
, the campus measures 800 metres (880
yard
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s) east-west along the
hypotenuse
In geometry, a hypotenuse is the longest side of a right-angled triangle, the side opposite the right angle. The length of the hypotenuse can be found using the Pythagorean theorem, which states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse equa ...
, and north-south at its maximum.
Geesseknäppchen is the site of:
*
Athénée de Luxembourg
The Athénée de Luxembourg ( en, Luxembourg Athenaeum), is a high school situated in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. Throughout the school's history of more than 400 years, the name was changed repeatedly. It's nowadays commonly called ...
*
Conservatoire de Luxembourg
The Conservatoire de Luxembourg is a conservatoire in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The conservatoire was founded in 1906, after a private donation made possible its establishment, which had been mandated under a Grand Ducal decree iss ...
*
International School of Luxembourg
The International School of Luxembourg (ISL) is a privately owned non-profit international school located in Hollerich, Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg.
History
The school was founded in 1963 under the name DuPont de Nemours Private Sc ...
*
Lycée Aline Mayrisch
*
Lycée Michel Rodange
Lycée Michel Rodange, abbreviated to LMRL, is a high school in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It is located on Campus Geesseknäppchen, along with several other educational institutions, most of which, including Lycée Michel Rodange, ...
*
Lycée Technique Ecole de Commerce et de Gestion
The campus has shared sporting facilities, including an athletics track, five sports halls, an
Olympic size swimming pool
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, and a
football
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(soccer) pitch.
The Japanese Supplementary School in Luxembourg (ルクセンブルグ補習授業校 ''Rukusenburugu Hoshū Jugyō Kō''), a
Japanese supplementary school,
[欧州の補習授業校一覧(平成25年4月15日現在)]
. Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
The , also known as MEXT or Monka-shō, is one of the eleven Ministries of Japan that composes part of the executive branch of the Government of Japan. Its goal is to improve the development of Japan in relation with the international community ...
(MEXT). Retrieved on May 10, 2014. is located on the premises of the
International School of Luxembourg
The International School of Luxembourg (ISL) is a privately owned non-profit international school located in Hollerich, Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg.
History
The school was founded in 1963 under the name DuPont de Nemours Private Sc ...
. Its operations began there in 1991 and it serves students aged 6 to 15.
[How expatriate children stay in touch with their cultural roots - supplementary schools in Luxembourg]
Archive
. ''Luxemburger Wort
''Luxemburger Wort'' is a German-language Luxembourgish daily newspaper. There is an English edition named the ''Luxembourg Times''.
History and profile
''Luxemburger Wort'' has been published since 1848. The paper was founded just three days a ...
''. Monday 10 March 2014. Retrieved on 14 February 2015.
References
Year of establishment missing
Education in Luxembourg City
Geography of Luxembourg City
Campuses
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