Junglinster () is a commune and town in central

Luxembourg Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembour ...

, in the

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Grevenmacher Grevenmacher (; ) is a commune with town status in eastern Luxembourg, near the border with Germany. It gives its name to the canton of Grevenmacher, and, until its abolition in 2015, the district of Grevenmacher. The town is situated on the l ...

. The 18th-century St Martin's church is a national monument.

History

The oldest mention of ''Lincera'' (the "linster" part of the place name) is in documents going back to 983, with the status of parish first attested in 1128.

Population

, the town of Junglinster has a population of 3,697, whilst the wider commune of Junglinster has a population of 8,622. Figures from 2018 report that 64.11% of the population of the commune holds Luxembourgish nationality, with the five largest immigrant populations in the commune being those of Portuguese (7.77%), French (5.12%), German (3.88%), Belgian (3.27%) and British (1.91%) nationalities.

Transmitters

The commune hosts two of the world's most powerful longwave transmitters, with the older transmitter based just north of the town of Junglinster since 1933, and a more powerful longwave transmitter located in Beidweiller since 1972. These transmitters were utilised by

Radio Luxembourg Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg. It is known in most non-English languages as RTL (for Radio Television Luxembourg). The English-language service of Radio Luxembourg began in 1933 as one of the earlies ...

, which gained iconic status amongst audiences in Britain and Ireland in the 1930s and again in the 1960s and 1970s, for popular programmes that circumvented restrictive broadcasting laws, particularly in the UK. This gave Junglinster an important role in the history of

pirate radio Pirate radio is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license, whether an invalid license or no license at all. In some cases, radio stations are considered legal where the signal is transmitted, but illegal where the signals are rec ...

. The transmitters are in still in use by

RTL (French radio) RTL is a French commercial radio network owned by the RTL Group through Groupe M6. Founded in 1933 as Radio Luxembourg, it broadcast from outside of France until 1981 because only public stations had been allowed until then. It is a general-inter ...

Populated places

The commune consists of the following towns and villages: * Junglinster Section: **

Altlinster Altlinster () is a village in the commune of Junglinster, in central Luxembourg Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany t ...

** **

Bourglinster Bourglinster (, ) is a small town in the commune of Junglinster, in central Luxembourg Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, ...

** Eisenborn ** Godbrange ** Graulinster ** Imbringen ** Junglinster (seat) ** Behlen ** Jeanharis *

Rodenbourg Rodenbourg (, ) is a village in the commune of Junglinster, in central Luxembourg. , the village has a population of 227 inhabitants. Rodenbourg gave its name to a commune in the canton of Grevenmacher until 1 January 1979, when it was merged ...

Section: **

Beidweiler Beidweiler () is a village in the commune of Junglinster, in central Luxembourg. , the village has a population of 277. Beidweiler is the site of the 2000 kilowatt-transmitter for transmitting the French-speaking programme of RTL RTL may ref ...

Eschweiler Eschweiler (, Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ) is a municipality in the district of Aachen (district), Aachen in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany on the river Inde, near the German-Dutch-Belgian border, and about east of Aachen and w ...

Gonderange Gonderange (, ) is a town in the commune of Junglinster, in central Luxembourg. , the town has a population of 1,983 inhabitants. Cyclist Franz Neuens, who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the G ...

Notable people

Eugène Schaus Eugène Schaus (12 May 1901 – 29 March 1978) was a Luxembourgish politician and jurist. Schaus was a leading light in the early days of the Democratic Party, of which he would be President from 1952 until 1959. Schaus held office in a number o ...

(1901–1978), a Luxembourgish politician and jurist. *

Lex Jacoby Alex 'Lex' Jacoby (28 February 1930 – 20 November 2015) was a Luxembourgish writer. He wrote novels, poems, plays and newspaper articles. He was born in Junglinster. His early works were written in the French language, Later Jacoby dedicated ...

(1930 in Junglister – 2015), writer; winner of the Servais Prize for Literature

Twin towns – sister cities

Junglinster is twinned with: *

Üdersdorf Üdersdorf is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Daun, whose se ...

, Germany *

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, United States

References

External links

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Commune of Junglinster official website
Communes in Grevenmacher (canton) Towns in Luxembourg {{Grevenmacher-geo-stub