Grevenmacher (; ) is a commune with town status in eastern

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, near the border with

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. It gives its name to the

canton of Grevenmacher Grevenmacher () is a canton in the east of Luxembourg. The canton's name derives from Grevenmacher, a commune with town status. Neither the canton, town, or commune of Grevenmacher should be confused with the former district of Grevenmacher, one ...

, and, until its abolition in 2015, the district of Grevenmacher. The town is situated on the left bank of the river

Moselle The Moselle ( , ; ; ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it joins at Koblenz. A sm ...

, in a

wine growing Viticulture (, "vine-growing"), viniculture (, "wine-growing"), or winegrowing is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of ''Vitis vinifera'', the common grape vine, ...

region. , the commune of Grevenmacher has a population of 5,092.

Geography

Climate

Grevenmacher has an

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(

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''Cfb''). The annual average temperature is , the hottest month in July is , and the coldest month is in January. The annual precipitation is , of which December is the wettest with , while April is the driest with only . The extreme temperature throughout the year ranged from on 19 December 2009 to on 25 July 2019.

Population

Twin towns — sister cities

Grevenmacher is twinned with: *

Aubière Aubière (; Auvergnat dialect, Auvergnat: ''Aubèira'') is a Communes of France, commune located in the department of Puy-de-Dôme in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeast France. As of 2017 its population was 10,061. The town is home to t ...

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Notable people

Frantz Seimetz Frantz Seimetz (21 April 1858 – 26 October 1934) was a prolific Luxembourg artist who painted portraits and landscapes in the Impressionist style."Seimetz, Frantz", ''Luxemburger Lexikon'', Editions Guy Binsfeld, Luxembourg, 2006. Early life ...

(1858–1934) a Luxembourg

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

portrait and landscape artist *

Joseph Lortz Joseph (Adam) Lortz (13 December 1887 in Grevenmacher, Luxembourg – 21 February 1975 in Luxembourg) was a Roman Catholic church historian. He was a highly regarded Reformation historian and ecumenist. Beginning in the 1940s, Lortz made his e ...

(1887–1975) a Roman Catholic church historian, Reformation historian and

ecumenist Ecumenism ( ; alternatively spelled oecumenism)also called interdenominationalism, or ecumenicalismis the concept and principle that Christians who belong to different Christian denominations should work together to develop closer relationships ...

* Anne-Marie Thekes (1907 in Grevenmacher - 1959), book seller, wife of painter

Theodore Wildanger Theodore Wildanger (May 1905 – 1989) was a painter born in France who later lived in Virginia. Some of his expressionist paintings are in the style of Marc Chagall. His credo was "''Art'' and Dreams have no Bounds." A paperback book by Jim Kinca ...

Rob Krier Rob Krier (10 June 1938 – 20 November 2023) was a Luxembourgish sculptor, architect, urban designer, and theorist. He was a professor of architecture at Vienna University of Technology, Austria. From 1993 to mid-2010s he worked in partnership w ...

(born 1938) a Luxembourgish sculptor, architect and urban designer *

Octavie Modert Octavie Modert (born 15 November 1966) is a Luxembourgish politician of the Christian Social People's Party. She was born in Grevenmacher, and she studied in Strasbourg and Reading. In 2004, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies The chambe ...

(born 1966) a politician from Luxembourg *

Monica Semedo Monica Semedo (born 15 June 1984) is a former Luxembourgish TV presenter and politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament after being elected in 2019. Political career In parliament, Semedo has been serving as full member of the ...

(born 1984), former TV presenter, now politician and

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since 2019

References

External links

* Cities in Luxembourg Communes in Grevenmacher (canton) Towns in Luxembourg {{Grevenmacher-geo-stub