Hamm () is a quarter in eastern

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, in southern

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. It is the home of the

Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial is a Second World War American military war grave cemetery, located in Hamm, Luxembourg, Hamm, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. The cemetery, containing 5,074 American war dead, covers and was dedicated in 19 ...

, the final resting place of 5,076 American servicemen, including General Patton. , the quarter has a population of 1,557 inhabitants.

History

Hamm's origins lie in the convent of St. Catharine, founded in the 14th century, around which a village developed. The proximity to the

Alzette The Alzette (; ; ) is a river with a length of in France and Luxembourg. It is a right tributary of the Sauer (a tributary to the Moselle), and ultimately to the Rhine. It rises in Thil near the town Villerupt in the Meurthe-et-Moselle '' ...

river facilitated the construction of several mills, which formed the basis for spinning and weaving wool from 1835. In the course of the next years, the Godchaux were able to expand their wool production by buying up almost all the mills on the Alzette, which were combined with another factory in Ettelbrück into the „Draperies de Luxembourg“. At their high point, the cloth mills employed up to 2,000 people. Due to the economic boom, Hamm was split off from the commune of Sandweiler in 1873 and received its own administration. By the law of 20 December 1873, the areas of Hamm, Schleifmühl, Fetschenbour, Haemmerstellgen, Scheidgrund, Scheidhof, Zens, Tavion and Pulvermühl were detached from the commune of Sandweiler and established as the commune of Hamm, with Hamm as its administrative centre. This change had been driven by the inhabitants of the electoral wards of Hamm, Schleifmühl and Pulvermühl. Initially, after the strong growth of the drapery industry in Schleifmühl around the 1870s when 800 workers were employed by the Godchaux family, residents had addressed a petition to the mayor of Sandweiler, demanding that the above three wards receive an increased number of councilors. Hamm was a commune in the canton of

between 20 December 1873, when it was split from the commune of Sandweiler, and 26 March 1920, when it was merged into the

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of Luxembourg, along with Hollerich and Rollingergrund./

History

Electoral history

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