Contern Explained

Contern (lb|Conter in Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch pronounced as /ˈkontɐ/) is a commune and town in southern Luxembourg. It is located east of Luxembourg City.^{[1] [2]} As of 2024 the commune has a population of 4,513 whereas the town itself, which lies in the south-west of the commune, has a population of 1,876.^{[3] [4]}

The main towns are Contern, Moutfort and Oetrange and there are two small villages, Medingen and Milbech. Additionally the commune contains the lieux-dits of Bricherhaff, Brichermillen, Kréintgeshaff, Kackerterhaff, Marxeknupp and Pleitrange.^[5] The commune also contains the industrial zones of Chaux de Contern, and Rosswenkel, as well as the activity zone of Weiergewan.

The town dates back to around the 9th century and was initially economically focused on farming. Having gone through various changes in governance over the centuries, the commune as it exists today was formed around the 19th century. In recent years Contern has industrialised; however, it mainly functions as a commuter town into Luxembourg City, as do most of the other settlements in the commune. As a result Contern boasts the 10th highest median average salary out of all 102 communes in Luxembourg as of 2022.^[6]

History

Early history

The Romans settled Luxembourg in the 1st century BC, it has been speculated whether or not the settlement of Contern was founded by them or even previously. This has not however been established despite the presence of remnants of Roman infrastructure within the boundaries of today's commune. They include a crossing over the Trudlerbaach, part of the Roman road linking Luxembourg and Dalheim, with remnants of the road passing through the farmstead of Faerschthaff.^[7] In the commune, there are also remains of an ancient Roman aqueduct, a temple and a few Roman villas. Signs of Celtic habitation are significantly less clear. The name Contern first appeared in a charter from 879 AD, although its first official listing was by Pope Honorius II in 1128. In spite of this it is almost certain Contern dates back to the Celtic Era. In the 14th century it was recorded in writing as Guntrein.^[8] Contern in the 13th century was considerably influenced by Christianity and chivalry. At this time Contern became a parish which led to the construction of its church.^{[9] [10]}

Contern was officially incorporated as a parish in 1621. In 1684, neighbouring Oetrange also became a parish followed by Moutfort in 1707. At the time, the parish of Contern had no lieux-dits although Oetrange was home to the settlement of Kackerterhaff. Moutfort included the settlements of Medingen and Milbech as well as Moulin de Milbech and the farmstead of Pleitrange.^{[11] [12]} By 1796 Contern was incorporated as an Arrondissement of Luxembourg District, which encapsulated several localities:

Localities within the arrondissement of Contern c.1800!Locality (French)!Locality (German)!Locality (Luxembourgish)!Parish

Brücherhof	Brücherhof	Bricherhaff	None
Brüchermühle		Brichermillen	None
Contern	Contern	Conter or Konter	Contern
Contern-Barriére			None
Conterweyer			None
Kackerterhof		Kackerterhaff	Oetrange
Kroentgeshof or Croentgeshof	Kroentgeshof or Kröntgeshof	Kréintgeshaff	None
Marxeknupp		Marxeknupp	None
Medingen	Medingen	Méideng or Méidéng	Moutfort
Moutfort	Mutfort	Mutfert	Moutfort
Mühlbach	Mühlbach	Millbech or Milbech	Moutfort
Mühlbach-Moulin orMoulin de Millbech		Millbechermillen orMilbechermillen	Moutfort
Oetrange	Oetringen	Éiter	Oetrange
Oetrange-Moulin		Éitermillen	None
Pleitrange	Pleitringen	Pläitreng	Moutfort

Contern remained an arrondissement until 1912. At some point in the early 19th Century, communes were introduced to Luxembourg which saw the foundation of the Commune. Precise details are unknown but the earliest census applicable to Contern with its current boundaries is from 1821 and the oldest officially archived reference to Contern as a commune dates back to 1816, which is the first occurance of it being officially listed as a commune. The oldest mention of Contern in a newspaper dates back to 1842^{[13] [14] [15]} exBy 1890 most of the former arrondissements of Contern were incorporated as lieux-dits and census subdivisions.

Population of all Villages and lieux-dits of Contern^[16] !Rank!Settlement!Parish!Population

1	Contern	Contern	356
2	Moutfort	Moutfort	328
3	Oetrange	Oetrange	253
4	Medingen	Moutfort	200
5	Muhlbach	Moutfort	28
6	Kroentgeshof	Contern	24
7	Barrièrehauser	Moutfort	16
8	Nehmuhl	Moutfort	13
9	Conterwieber	Contern	11
10	Oetrange Moulin	Oetrange	8
	Brücherhof	Contern	8
12	Pleitrange	Moutfort	7
13	Brüchermuhl	Contern	6
14	Kackert	Oetrange	4

From 1945 onwards, Contern's municipal structure was made up of Contern, Oetrange, Moutfort and Medingen. The parish of Oetrange was absorbed into the parish of Moutfort in 1946. Shortly thereafter in 1948, the parishes of Contern and Moutfort were effectively dissolved.

21st century

On November 8th 2000, Contern's municipal council passed a bill approving the sale of land in the Weiergewann and Scheid cadastral districts as well as modifying the building regulations in Weiergewann and formulated the plan regarding taxation and forestry use for the 2001 fiscal budget. The budget was later rectified on November 30th and all then Contern joined the Luxembourgish Climate Alliance (Klimabündnis-Lëtzebuerg).^{[17] [18] [19]} Around this same time, Contern.lu was set up.^[20]

In November of 2023, the DuPont chemical plant located partially within Contern threatened to lay off a large portion of its staff.^[21]

In 2024, a small car park in the town centre beside the church cemetery just off of CR243 Trunk Road was converted into a small pedestrianised square. In May, it was controversially announced that the square would be named “Place de Luc Frieden” in the honour of the sitting primer minister of Luxembourg who has resided in the commune for 30 years. The mayor of Contern, Marion Zovillé-Braquet who was affiliated with Frieden’s party CSV states that the naming was by no means political meanwhile councillors of Contern affiliated with DP stated that naming a square after a sitting prime minister is a “practice common in dictatorships” and that street names should generally be a “Posthumous honour” of LSAP backed up the mayor amid the controversy having already voted in favour of the name in the council meeting.^[22]

Archaeology

Although no prominent archaeological sites or artifacts date back to Celtic times, much remains from the Romans including some housing ruins and remnants of an aqueduct. Additionally a mosaic of the Roman god Epona was discovered in Contern. The most prominent item from the Romans however the Gallo-Roman villa which stood on the current site of the town. Its remains can be seen to this day.^[23]

Etymology

Following World War II, the Luxembourgers had strong distaste for their former German overseers. This was why almost every place in the country was renamed from its original Luxembourgish name of German origin, to that of French origin without changing too much. Contern's name would have stayed Conter if it weren't for the French pronunciation of "er" being far too strong., An "n" was therefore added. It could have been possible to have followed what places like Hesperange did, but in the end it stuck to the name Contern. In the modern era, to encourage more Luxembougish in the commune, many documents and signs use "Conter" instead of Contern.

Geography

The Commune of Contern is located within the Canton of Luxembourg itself within Luxembourg District.^[24]

Boundaries

Contern is bordered by the communes of Sandweiler and Schuttrange to the north, Lenningen and Bous-Waldbredimus to the east, Dalheim to the south, Weiler-la-Tour to the southwest and Hesperange to the west. In general, the borders of Contern are not defined by any major roads of rivers but there are exceptions. Between Eitermillen and the border with Sandweiler, the Kackeshbaach marks the border between Contern and Schuttrange. Between Syren and Brichemillen, the River Syre marks the border with Weiler-La-Tour and east of the Contern-Sandweiler industrial zone, the Réimeschbaach marks the border with Hesperange.^[25]

Topography

Contern covers an area of 20.55 square kilometres, making it, as of 2022, the 54th largest commune in Luxembourg out of 102.^[26] It had a population of 4374, the 44th highest out of 102 communes as of 2023 giving it a population density of 210 people per square kilometre, 43rd highest in Luxembourg. The population has since risen to 4,513 inhabitants. Contern lies within the Guttland region of Luxembourg and covers part of both the Luxembourg Plateau and Moselle Valley sub-regions.^[27] The contrast between the two sub regions gives Contern a varying topography, from the rolling hills in the south, north and west to the sharp sandstone cliffs to the east around Medingen.

Contern is largely centred around the River Syre, which nearly perfectly bisects the commune, and to a lesser extent, its tributaries. The Syre flows north-east from Syren in the commune of Weiler-la-Tour continuing up to the border with Schuttrange halfway between Oetrange and Schrassig. Whilst flowing through the commune, it directly bisects both Moutfort and Oetrange and the lieux-dits of Bricherhaff and Brichermillen. There is one tributary of the Syre which directly hosts a settlement, the Kackeschbaach with Eitermillen. The remaining settlements are located atop hills including Contern itself.

Climate

The nearest place to survey the climate is in Luxembourg City however temperatures likely differ slightly due to the urban heat island effect present in Luxembourg City which isn't felt to the same extent in Contern. Contern has an oceanic climate (Cfb), with moderate precipitation, cold to cool winters and warm summers. It is cloudy about two-thirds of the year.

Geology

See main article: article and Geology of Luxembourg. Being in the Guttland region, Contern’s geological structure consists largely of Luxembourg Sandstone with deposits of lime and clay underneath. The rock formations that now surround the River Syre date back to the late Triassic period.^{[28] [29]}

Settlements

Industrial zones

Rivers and streams

Contern lies exclusively within the Rhine and Moselle basins. Most of Contern’s territory flows into the Moselle through the Syre. A small portion in the northwest of the commune however flows into the Alzette and the Sauer before reaching the Moselle. The Syre itself passes though the commune and is a defining feature of the landscape. It flows southwest to north east but does not pass near the centre of the commune. Instead, it initially runs across the south before turning and running up north. The central and eastern areas of the commune are home to tributaries of the Alzette.^{[30] [31]}

• Rhine (main branch at Hook of Holland, Netherlands)
  • Moselle (at Koblenz, Germany)
    • Sauer (at Wasserbillig, Mertert)
      • Alzette (at Ettelbruck, Ettelbruck)
        • Itzigerbaach (at Hesperange, Hesperange)
          • Réimeschbaach (at Itzig, Hesperange)
    • Syre (at Mertert, Mertert)
      • Kackeschbaach (at Oetrange)
      • Schleederbaach (at Moutfort)
      • Trudlerbaach (at Syren, Weiler-la-Tour)

Syre

See main article: articles and Syre (river).

Trudlerbaach

See main article: articles and Trudlerbaach.

Schleederbaach

The Schleederbaach, sometimes referred to as the Millebaach, is a brook which flows from the Contern-Sandweiler industrial estate to just west of Moutfort where it meets the Syre. Historically the course of the Schleederbaach was different but was changed by the construction of the industrial zone.^{[32] [33]} Now there are many channels of water within the industrial zone which flow into the Schleederbaach, additionally there is one notable tributary of the Schleederbaach in the form of a small brook near Milbech which flows from a nearby spring out of the adjacent sandstone cliffs. Similarly the cliffs which make up the Schleederbaach valley also accumulate large amount groundwater from areas just east of Contern and west of Kackerterhaff and channel it into the brook.^{[34] [35]}

Forests

Contern has 800 hectares of forests within its borders taking up around 37% of its land area.^[36]

Land Allocation

Contern is divided into 6 cadastral sections which are themselves comprised of multiple cadastral regions. All plots of land are grouped into one of these cadastral region.^{[37] [38]}

Demographics

As of 1 January 2023, the commune has a population of 4,374 inhabitants. Around 70% of the population are aged 15–65 and an estimated third of the commune's population consists of non-Luxembourgers, which is considerably higher than the national average. The town of Contern itself has a population of 1,876 as of 2024.^[4]

Population

Records of the population of the commune have existed since shortly after its inception with the oldest dating back to 1821. Initially censuses and estimates were few, far between and irregular, however since 1975 statistics have been compiled annually. Contern’s population has mostly been rising steadily over the past 200 years with the exception of the second half of the 19th century when there was a prolonged period of decline. Since the 1970s the population of Contern began to rise significantly as a result of an economic boom in Luxembourg.

Year! colspan="5"

Population	Population Density
Overall			+/-
	Total	p.a	%	%p.a	/km2	/sq mi
1821	793	–	–	–	–	38.6	14.9
1843	1301	508	23.1	64.1	2.9	–	–
1851	1404	103	12.9	7.9	1.0	68.3	26.4
1871	1249	155	7.8	8.4	0.4	60.8	23.4
1880	1216	33	3.7	2.6	0.3	59.2	22.9
1890	1176	40	4	3.3	0.3	57.2	22.1
1900	1098	78	7.8	6.6	0.7	53.4	20.6
1910	1097	1	0.1			53.4	20.6
1922	1162	65	5.4	5.6	0.5	56.5	21.8
1930	1199	37	4.6	3.2	0.4	58.3	22.5
1935	1153	46	9.2	3.8	0.8	56.1	21.7
1947	1126	27	2.3	2.3	0.2	60.1	23.2
1960	1181	55	4.2	4.9	0.4	57.5	22.2
1970	1639	458	45.8	38.8	3.9	79.8	30.8

Year! colspan="3"

Population	Population Density
Overall			+/-
	Total	%	/km2	/sq mi
1981	2203	–	–	107.2	41.4
1991	2568	365	16.6	125.0	48.3
2001	3082	514	20.0	150.0	57.9
2011	3419	337	10.9	166.4	64.3
2021	3968	549	16.1	193.1	74.6

Population by locality

Since 2021, the population of the individual towns in the commune has been independently compiled, censuses taking place every decade also distinguish between localities. Population totals for each of these localities also include the general area around the locality including nearby lieu-dits.

Population of the localities in Contern by year 2021-2024^{[39] [40] [41]} !Year!Contern!Moutfort!Oetrange!Medingen

2021	1587	1406	843	132
2022	1743	1450	858	126
2023	1836	1517	890	131
2024	1876	–	–	–

Year! colspan="3"

Total	Contern			Moutfort			Oetrange			Medingen
Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females
1981	2203	1120	1083	796	412	384	814	409	405	479	242	237	114	57	57
1991	2568	1287	1281	895	440	455	966	482	484	595	311	284	112	54	58
2001	3082	1547	1535	1065	527	538	1148	583	565	769	388	381	100	49	51
2011	3419	1695	1724	1273	629	644	1256	625	631	781	391	390	109	50	59

In the 19th century much of the Census data concerning the populations of each individual locality was publicised, notably also including the Lieu-dits:

Historic population of all localities in Contern!Rank!Settlement!1843 Population!1890 Population

1	Contern	391	356
2	Moutfort	554 (+Medingen)	328
3	Oetrange	224	253
4	Medingen	No Data	200
5	Muhlbach	20	28
6	Kroentgeshof	No Data	24
7	Barrièrehauser	No Data	16
8	Nehmuhl	No Data	13
9	Conterwieber	No Data	11
10	Oetrange Moulin	No Data	8
	Brücherhof	12	8
12	Pleitrange	14	7
13	Brüchermuhl	8	6
14	Kackert	13	4

Age Structure

Population by Age group and Sex (2011)^[42] !Age Group!Males!Females!Total

0-4	97	88	185
5-9	103	90	193
10-14	100	129	229
15-19	126	133	259
20-24	111	93	204
25-29	94	98	192
30-34	100	91	191
35-39	122	135	257
40-44	124	146	270
45-49	159	157	316
50-54	140	143	283
55-59	106	98	204
60-64	93	97	190
65-69	91	82	173
70-74	69	56	125
75-79	35	47	82
80-84	15	23	38
85-89	9	8	17
90-94	1	7	8
95-99	0	2	2
100+	0	1	1

Vital statistics

	Average population[43] [44]	Live births[45] [46]	Deaths[47]	Natural change[48]	Crude birth rate (per 1000)	Crude death rate (per 1000)	Natural change (per 1000)	Crude migration change (per 1000)[49]
1975	1918
1976	2010
1977	2056
1978	2098
1979	2128
1980	2213
1981	2211
1982	2208
1983	2270
1984	2360
1985	2370
1986	2390
1987	2430	35	18	17	14.4	7.4	7
1988	2472	28	13	15	11.3	5.3	6
1989	2544	26	20	6	10.2	7.9	2.3
1990	2641	34	19	15	12.9	7.2	5.7	7
1991	2568	37	15	22	14.4	5.8	8.6	28
1992	2612	29	14	15	11.1	5.4	5.7	-8
1993	2619	30	11	19	11.5	4.2	7.3	45
1994	2683	41	20	21	15.3	7.5	7.8	60
1995	2764	30	19	11	10.9	6.9	4	54
1996	2829	39	18	21	13.8	6.4	7.4	50
1997	2900	32	18	14	11.0	6.2	4.8	51
1998	2965	37	16	21	12.5	5.4	7.1	31
1999	3017	30	8	22	9.9	2.7	7.2	55
2000	3094	30	13	17	9.7	4.2	5.5	31
2001	3082	32	16	16	10.3	5.2	5.1	-27
2002	3073	32	20	12	10.4	6.5	3.9	34
2003	3119	28	20	8	9.0	6.4	2.6	11
2004	3138	25	16	9	8.0	5.1	2.9	8
2005	3155	22	24	-2	7.0	7.6	-0.6	18
2006	3171	23	15	8	7.3	4.7	2.6	15
2007	3194	23	15	8	7.2	4.7	2.5	29
2008	3231	39	12	27	12.1	3.7	8.4	85
2009	3343	31	15	16	9.3	4.5	4.8	124
2010	3483	32	22	10	9.2	6.3	2.9	-3
2011	3419	49	12	37	14.3	3.5	10.8	48
2012	3497	37	25	12	10.6	7.1	3.5	8
2013	3517	44	27	17	12.5	7.7	4.8	-17
2014	3517	37	38	-1	10.5	10.8	-0.3	-20
2015	3496	26	30	-4	7.4	8.6	-1.2	19
2016	3511	38	53	-15	10.8	15.1	-4.3	9
2017	3736	25	32	-7	6.7	8.6	-1.9	89
2018	3816	40	42	-2	10.5	11.0	-0.5	47
2019	3865	36	37	-1	9.3	9.6	-0.3	80
2020	3939	49	54	-5	12.4	13.7	-1.3	34
2021	3968	38	41	-3	9.6	10.3	-0.7	218
2022	4177	42	33	9	10.1	7.9	2.2	194
2023	4374	45	49	-4	10.3	11.2	-0.9	144
2024	4513

Migration

Migration in Contern 1990-2023^[50] !Year!Immigrants!Emmigrants!Net migration

1990	179	172	7
1991	173	145	28
1992	155	163	-8
1993	209	164	45
1994	215	155	60
1995	201	147	54
1996	214	164	50
1997	194	143	51
1998	200	169	31
1999	248	193	55
2000	193	162	31
2001	191	218	-27
2002	240	206	34
2003	189	178	11
2004	196	188	8
2005	175	157	18
2006	195	180	15
2007	227	198	29
2008	295	210	85
2009	303	179	124
2010	243	246	-3
2011	287	239	48
2012	305	297	8
2013	246	263	-17
2014	237	257	-20
2015	272	253	19
2016	267	258	9
2017	330	241	89
2018	347	300	47
2019	373	293	80
2020	299	265	34
2021	506	288	218
2022	453	259	194
2023	406	262	144

Foreign population

Year! colspan="2"

Foreign Population
Total	%
1900	39	3.55
1945	79	6.85
1947	108	9.59
1960	101	8.97
1970	367	22.39
1981	615	27.91
1991	643	25.04
2001	885	28.71
2011	1138	33.28

Population by Nationality and Sex 2001^[51] !Nationality!Males!Females!Total

Portuguese	78	74	152
French	51	55	106
Italian	58	33	91
German	67	86	153
Belgian	43	33	76
Yugoslav/Former Yugoslavia	5	5	10
Foreigners Total	438	447	885
Luxembourg Natives	1109	1088	2197

Population by Nationality and Sex 2024^[52] !Country!Females!Males!Total

	1430	1375	2805
	145	171	316
	98	115	213
	83	59	142
	58	64	122
	56	56	112
	30	25	55
	26	28	54
	22	29	51
	24	20	44
	14	21	35
	16	17	33
	15	17	32
	21	10	31
	18	11	29
	13	11	24
	9	14	23
	11	11	22
	12	5	17
	10	7	17
	9	8	17
	8	8	16
	9	5	14
	5	7	12
	10	2	12
	9	2	11
	4	6	10
	5	4	9
	3	6	9
	3	6	9
	8	1	9
	7	2	9
	4	5	9
	3	5	8
	5	3	8
	4	4	8
	4	3	7
	2	4	6
	5	1	6
	3	3	6
	2	4	6
	3	3	6
	6	0	6
	1	4	5
	3	2	5
	3	2	5
	1	4	5
	3	1	4
	2	1	3
	1	2	3
	2	1	3
	1	2	3
	2	1	3
	1	2	3
	2	1	3
	3	0	3
	3	0	3
	0	2	2
	2	0	2
	1	1	2
	2	0	2
	2	0	2
	2	0	2
	0	2	2
	1	1	2
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	0	1	1
	0	1	1
	0	1	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	0	1	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
	0	1	1
	1	0	1
	0	1	1
	0	1	1
	1	0	1
	1	0	1
Stateless	0	1	1

Employment

Year! colspan="3"

Emloyed Population	Unemployed Population	Active Population	Unemployment Rate
Total				Paid	Unpaid
2001	1 162	1 033	129	12	1 174	1.02
2002	1 149	1 017	132	20	1 169	1.71
2003	1 169	1 031	138	35	1 204	2.91
2004	1 164	1 027	137	35	1 199	2.92
2005	1 189	1 042	147	34	1 223	2.78
2006	1 186	1 044	142	38	1 224	3.1
2007	1 237	1 094	143	26	1 263	2.06
2008	1 282	1 135	147	31	1 313	2.36
2009	1 393	1 235	158	53	1 446	3.67
2010	1 418	1 254	164	53	1 471	3.6
2011	1 449	1 293	156	60	1 509	3.98
2012	1 448	1 288	160	57	1 505	3.79
2013	1 403	1 253	150	68	1 471	4.62
2014	1 383	1 228	155	83	1 466	5.66
2015	1 420	1 270	150	69	1 489	4.63
2016	1 420	1 260	160	72	1 492	4.83
2017	1 430	1 280	150	56	1 486	3.77
2018	1 450	1 290	160	68	1 518	4.48
2019	1 490	1 330	160	52	1 542	3.37
2020	1 510	1 360	150	73	1 583	4.61
2021	1 600	1 440	160	75	1 675	4.48
2022	1 690	1 520	170	56	1 746	3.21
2023	1 740	1 560	180	65	1 805	3.6
2024	1 800	1 620	180	80	1 880	4.26

Economy

Contern is a commuter town, largely dependant on Luxembourg city for its economy. Contern however also has a major industrial district which makes up the bulk of Contern’s economic output. As a result of the industry, more people work in the commune than reside in it.^[53]

Industry

Contern consists of two quite separate industrial zones. Although officially separate, locally they are often considered as one entity, even on road signs. The area where Sandweiler-Contern railway station is located is home to a lot of commercial infrastructure such as the only fully-fledged supermarket in the commune, a trampoline park and the commune's only gas station. A few restaurants and eateries are also located there to serve the local workers. Employing over 5,000, the area is home to more than 110 companies and is quickly growing and attracting new developments.^{[54] [55]}

Transportation

Road

Contern is well connected to the road network and links to Luxembourg City. However the only dual carriageway in the commune is the E29.^[56] There are plans in the next five to ten 5–10 years to build a new motorway exit on the Luxembourg Ring to serve Contern and Itzig.^[57]

Contern is involved with websites that provide traffic info.^{[58] [59]}

The first road infrastructure constructed within the boundaries of the today's commune was also the oldest known instance of any infrastructure in the commune in the form of the Roman road from Luxembourg City to Dalheim, including a crossing over the Trudlerbaach. Parts of this road including the river crossing still remain in the locality of op der Syrener-Heed.^[60]

Motorways

No Motorways pass directly through Contern, the nearest is the A1, currently the nearest junction to Contern is in Hamm, adjacent to the neighbouring Commune of Sandweiler. In 2016, the Governing CSV party proposed a new junction on the A1 in order to serve Contern, Itzig and the Contern-Sandweiler industrial estate as well as a new road to connect the junction to all of those places citing the alarming increase of through traffic in the commune as the main reason the construct it. The new connecting road would run directly to the Contern-Sandweiler industrial estate.

Trunk Roads

There are 2 Trunk Roads (Route National) The most prominent is the N2 which makes up a part of European Route E29.^{[61] [62]}

Road	Route	Via (Within Contern)
N2	Luxembourg (Verlorenkost) - Remich	Moutfort, Éitermillen, Kréintgeshaff
N28	Sandweiler-Bous	Oetrange, Pleitrange

Secondary Roads

Contern has several secondary roads (chemin repris):

Road	Route	Via (Within Contern)
CR 132	Bech-Syren	Moutfort, Oetrange
CR 144	Oetrange-Ehnen	Oetrange
CR 153	Moutfort-Dalheim	Moutfort, Medingen
CR 226	Itzig-Filsdorf	Contern
CR 234	Sandweiler-Moutfort	Contern-Sandweiler Industrial Zone, Contern, Milbech

Bus

Contern is served by many different bus routes as are many of the other towns within the commune.^{[63] [64]}

Rail

Management of Railways in Contern^{[65] [66]} !Dates!Organisation!Overseen by

1861-1871	Société royale grand-ducale des chemins de fer Guillaume-Luxembourg	Chemins de fer de l'Est
1871–1946	Société royale grand-ducale des chemins de fer Guillaume-Luxembourg	Compagnie EL (Reichseisenbahn Elsass-Lothringen)
1946-prensent	Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois	Luxembourg Government

The Commune of Contern is served by CFL Line 30. There are two stations inside the commune, Oetrange Railway Station and Sandweiler-Contern Station. The track also passes through Moutfort and Milbech which have no stations. Typically Oetrange is served by two regional trains an hour westboud: one to Luxembourg City westbound and one to Wittlich; eastboud one to Wasserbillig. Sandweiler-Contern also sees an hourly semi-fast service from Luxembourg to Trier/Koblenz. In addition to Line 30 there is a junction in Oetrange to CFL Line 4 which runs through Moutfort and out of the commune towards Fentange and Berchem on CFL Line 60. This line is a freight line used by trains to bypass Luxembourg city centre. It has no regular passenger service unless the line between Luxembourg and Oetrange is closed for engineering works.^[67]

Rail transport initially reached the commune in 1861 when what would become CFL Line 30 was built by Guillaume-Luxembourg. Both stations in the commune today were opened then.^{[68] [69]}

Air

The nearest airport to Contern is Luxembourg Airport, located a few miles north of the commune.

Municipality and governance

Contern is a commune which has a local government and therefore a mayor and council. Elections are held every six years alongside all 99 other Luxembourg communes.^[70] The Mayor is currently Marion Zovilé-Braquet.^[71]

Elections

Elections in Contern occur on three levels. The Municipal elections are held for the local government exclusively within Contern. However Contern also acts as an electoral ward for national legislative elections and for elections for the European Parliament.

Municipal elections

As Contern has a population between 3,000 and 5,999 it elects a total of 11 councillors, including two aldermen and the mayor. Additionally as a result of having a population of over 3,000, municipal elections are held using proportional representation. Participation is mandatory for Luxembourg citizens and unlike in general elections, non-Luxembourg European Union citizens are permitted to vote provided they have valid residency.^[72]

The mayor is elected and is put in charge of municipal staff, administration, infrastructure, security, emergency services, communications, relations with other communes, schools and sport. In addition the mayor also heads the "le collège Echevinal" and the Municipal Council.

The Collège Echevinal consists of the mayor and his two advisors who have varied responsibilities. The first alderman handles areas including mobility, weather, and fairtrade, while the second alderman oversees the environment, finances and agriculture.^{[73] [74]}

The Municipal Council consists of 11 elected members including the two aldermen, the mayor and eight councilors. They are the legislators of the municipality. Meetings happen roughly every three months, take place in the town hall and are public unless otherwise stated.^[75]

The municipal elections in Contern use a form of multi-candidate proportional representation, each contesting party generally puts forward 11 candidates, one for every seat available,each voter also gets 11 votes however they needn't utilise all of them. Voters have the option to vote for a party in which case they give one vote to each candidate from that party or they can distribute their 11 votes between individual candidates as they please. They can also give any candidate up to 2 votes. The 11 seats are then distributed by party in accordance with what percentage of the popular vote they received. Then the candidates with the most votes in their respective party are assigned seats until all of the party's seats have been exhausted.

Leading Party!Governing Coalition

2005-2011		DP	DP, CSV
2011-2017		CSV	DP, LSAP, DG
2017-present		CSV	CSV, LSAP

2023 municipal election

The 2023 Local Elections in Luxembourg all took place on the 11 June 2023 to elect the members of all the local councils of Luxembourg, including the 11 members of Contern Municipal Council.^[76] Following the 2017 Municipal Election, the Christian Social People's Party held the largest number of seats in the Municipal Council with 5, 2 of the 3 Aldermen were also affiliated with CSV.^[77]

Four parties ran in the election, each putting forward 11 candidates.

Incumbent councillors not standing for reelection!Name!!Party!Councillor Since

Fernand Schiltz		LSAP	2005
Olivier Unsen		LSAP	2011
Laurent Lakaff		CSV	2011
Claude Schmit		DG	2011
Guy Lorent		DP	2005

ListNo.! colspan="2" rowspan="2"

Name	Abbr,		Political Position	Votes				Seats
Total				+/-	%	+/-%	Total	+/-	%	+/-%
1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			9130	1028	44.25	0.27	5		45.45
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	5042	1953	24.44	7.47	3	1	27.27	9.10
3		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	3551	466	17.12	4.95	2		18.18
4		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	2909	82	10.12	6.31	1	1	9.10	9.10
Total						20632	2433	100		100		100

Party!Candidate!Votes!%

1		CSV	Marion Zoville-Braquet	1444	7.00
2		CSV	Jim Schmitz	1074	5.21
3		CSV	Tom Jungblut	1014	4.91
4		CSV	Digi Di Genova	956	4.63
5		DP	Dali Zhu	834	4.04
6		CSV	Marc Entringer	827	4.01
7		CSV	Yves Loose	669	3.24
8		CSV	Liss Schumacher	659	3.19
9		CSV	Noah Rodrigues	651	3.16
10		CSV	Natalie Schlesser	643	3.12
11		CSV	Marco Schmit	606	2.94
12		DP	Eric Eifes	590	2.86
13		CSV	Jasmine Kamran	587	2.85
14		DG	Ari Arrensdorff	585	2.84
15		DP	Robert Axmann	479	2.32
16		LSAP	Stephanie Ansay	475	2.30
17		DP	Ernest Pirch	428	2.07
18		LSAP	Claire Delcourt	428	2.07
19		DP	Charles Muller	426	2.06
20		DP	Pia Diderich	411	1.99
21		DP	Rose-Marie Arcanger	407	1.97
22		DP	Patrick Elsen	397	1.92
23		DP	Cynthia Gansauer	384	1.86
24		DP	Marie-Anne Kolback-Hoffmann	358	1.74
25		LSAP	Geoffrey Thierie	350	1.70
26		DP	Meho Bajrami	328	1.59
27		LSAP	Pol Thome
28		LSAP	Martina Brandenburger	321	1.56
29		LSAP	Salia Bodian	308	1.49
30		LSAP	Astrid Lagoda	301	1.46
31		DG	Lydie Arrensdorff-Dumont	290	1.41
32		LSAP	Cecilia Quirke	284	1.38
33		LSAP	Antonia Caetano Pina
34		DG	Ewald Röll	270	1.31
35		DG	Anna Fox	251	1.22
36		LSAP	Elizabeth Schrobiltgen	248	1.20
37		DG	Toinon Hann-Schmit	244	1.18
38		DG	Eric Corrignan
39		LSAP	Darina Cochrane	224	1.09
40		DG	Natalie Ebert	222	1.08
41		DG	Anja Cutler	220	1.07
42		DG	Frederic Just	208	1.01
43		DG	Alina Rachieru	188	0.91
44		DG	Thierry Cutler	187

2017 municipal election

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			8102	44.52
2		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	4017	22.07
3		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	3089	16.97
4		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	2991	16.43

Party!Candidate!Votes!%

1		CSV	Marion Zoville-Braquet	1214	6.67
2		CSV	Jim Schmitz	1158	6.36
3		LSAP	Fernand Schiltz	1038	5.70
4		CSV	Digi Di Genova	906	4.98
5		CSV	Laurent Lakaff	804	4.41
6		CSV	Tom Jungblut	760	4.18
7		CSV	Carlo Boulanger	689	3.79
8		DG	Ari Arrensdorff	597	3.28
9		CSV	Liss Schumacher	567	3.12
10		CSV	Yve Loose	548	3.01
11		CSV	Marco Schmit	537	2.95
12		DG	Claude Schmit	507	2.79
13		DP	Guy Lorent	488	2.68
14		CSV	Micheline Feilen-Brisbois	474	2.60
15		CSV	Marie-France Back-Pelaie	445	2.45
16		LSAP	Olivier Unsen	400	2.20
17		LSAP	Patrick Weymerskirch	390	2.14
18		DP	Eric Eifes	382	2.01
19		DP	Dali Zhu	346	1.90
20		DP	Kim Arsene	342	1.88
21		LSAP	Geoffrey Thierie	326	1.79
22		DG	Laurie Wolter	301	1.65
23		LSAP	Edmund Nicolay	295	1.62
24		LSAP	Astrid Lagoda	294
25		LSAP	Danielle Kies	282	1.55
26		LSAP	Martina Brandenburger	268	1.47
27		LSAP	Elizabeth Cordova Carnero	262	1.44
28		DP	Patrick Elsen	259	1.42
29		DP	Pia Diderich	247	1.36
		DG	Muriel Moritz
31		DP	Sandra Lorent	240	1.32
32		DG	Ewall Roll	236	1.30
33		LSAP	Annika Holst	231	1.27
		LSAP	Birgitte Holst
35		DG	Lydie Arrens	225	1.24
36		DP	Rose-Marie Arcanger	213	1.17
37		DP	Marie-Anne Kolbach-Hoffman	204	1.12
38		DP	Vitor Dos Santos	203
39		DG	Anna Fox	194	1.01
40		DG	Stephanie Weis	188	1.03
41		DG	Thierry Coutelier	183	1.01
42		DG	Fréderic Juste	169	0.93
43		DP	Romaine Krischel-Kahlen	165	0.91
44		DG	Sylvain Classen	145	0.80

2011 municipal election

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			5993	32.48
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	5001	27.10
3		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	4424	23.97
4		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	3036	16.45

Party!Candidate!Votes!%

1		CSV	Jim Schmitz	1405	7.61
2		LSAP	Fernand Schiltz	1095	5.93
3		CSV	Marion Zoville-Braquet	898	4.87
4		DP	Jean-Marie Mangen	876	4.75
5		LSAP	Philo Guenther-Marx	702	3.80
6		CSV	Jean-Pierre di Genova	670	3.63
7		LSAP	Marcel Zeimes	627	3.40
8		DP	Guy Lorent	562	3.05
9		DP	Eric Eiffes	549	2.97
10		CSV	Laurent Lakaff	543	2.94
11		DP	Arsene Kihm	519	2.81
12		DP	Alexandre Krieps	506	2.74
13		DG	Ari Arrensdorff	477	2.58
14		DG	Claude Schmit	417	2.26
15		CSV	Marco Schmit	407	2.21
16		DP	Carlo Hermann	403	2.18
17		DP	Lydia Alegria	370	2.00
18		CSV	Marie-France Back-Pelaie	362	1.96
19		DP	Tom Jungblut	360	1.95
20		LSAP	Fernand Entringer	355	1.92
		CSV	Roland Reicher
22		DG	Yoland Kox	354
23		CSV	Bernadette Krack	351	1.90
24		CSV	Pascal Lullingen	349	1.89
25		CSV	Josiane Braun-Beauchaud	340	1.84
26		DP	Pia Diderich	316	1.71
27		CSV	Myriam Hames-Muller	313	1.70
28		DP	Romaine Krischel-Kahlen	301	1.63
29		DG	Ewald Roll	300	1.63
30		LSAP	Olivier Unsen	294	1.59
31		DG	Lydie Arrensdorff-Dumont	279	1.51
32		LSAP	Marco Suman	265	1.44
33		DP	Steve Thull	239	1.30
34		LSAP	Vladimir Garboutchev	237	1.28
35		LSAP	Marc Cloos	225	1.22
		LSAP	Isabelle Tunc
37		DG	Thierry Coutelier	220	1.19
38		DG	Yves Dieschbourg	207	1.12
39		DG	Yves Zolfer	203	1.10
		LSAP	Edith Reckinger
41		DG	Lilianne Grethen	200	1.08
42		DG	Sylvain Classen	198	1.07
43		LSAP	Birgitte Holst	196	1.06
44		DG	John Lorentz	181	0.98

In the aftermath of the election, DP, LSAP and Déi Gréng formed a coalition government excluding CSV, the party with the most votes and seats. This resulted in unrest and protests against the then current electoral system.^[78]

2005 municipal election

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	5525	33.96
2		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	5468	33.61
3		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			5277	32.43

Party!Candidate!Votes!%

1		LSAP	Fernand Schiltz	1171	7.20
2		CSV	Jim Schmitz	1129	6.94
3		CSV	Jean Sauber	840	5.16
4		DP	Jean-Marie Mangen	832	5.11
5		DP	Constant Goergen	799	4.91
6		DP	Alexandre Krieps	701	4.31
7		LSAP	Roland Schiel	671	4.12
8		LSAP	Philo Gunther-Marx	597	3.67
9		DP	Aresene Kihm	587	3.61
10		DP	Guy Lorent	582	3.58
11		DP	Eric Eiffes	559	3.44
12		CSV	Lilly Schmit-Eischen	555	3.41
13		LSAP	Michelle Reuter	551	3.39
14		CSV	Marion Zoville-Braquet	511	3.14
15		LSAP	Marcel Zeimes	471	2.89
16		LSAP	Fernand Entringer	461	2.83
17		CSV	Nico Dusseldorf	448	2.75
18		CSV	Marc Schleck	414	2.54
19		DP	Marie-Anne Kolbach-Hoffmann	360	2.21
20		DP	Brigitte Hilbert-Henx	356	2.19
21		LSAP	Danny Deville	341	2.10
22		LSAP	Christian Loor	328	2.02
23		LSAP	Marco Hames	315	1.94
24		LSAP	Edith Reckinger	314	1.93
25		CSV	Marco Schmit	310	1.91
26		CSV	Nico Klein	304	1.87
27		CSV	Marcel Hoffmann	301	1.85
28		DP	Pia Diderich	272	1.67
29		DP	David Reicher	270	1.66
30		LSAP	Roy Kierch	248	1.52
31		CSV	Bernadette Reisen-Krack	237	1.46
32		CSV	Marie-France Back-Pelaié	228	1.40
33		DP	Alan Pfister	207	1.27

National legislative elections

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			13406	36.57
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	8646	23.68
3		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	4066	11,09
4		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	3709	10.12
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			2298	6.27
6		Pirate Party Luxembourg	PPLU	Pirate politics		2240	6.11
7[79]		Focus	FOK	Pragmatism	Centre	1103	3.01
8		The Left	DL		Left-wing	844	2.30
9			LF	Right-wing populism		293	0.80
10		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	58	0.16

Party!Candidate!Votes!%

1		CSV	Luc Frieden	1147	3.13
2		DP	Xavier Bettel	979	2.67
3		CSV	Elisabeth Margue	882	2.41
4		CSV	Paul Galles	774	2.11
5		CSV	Marc Lies	756	2.06
6		CSV	Claude Wiseler	749	2.04
7		CSV	Serge Wilmes	744	2.03
8		CSV	Diane Adehm	678	1.85
9		DP	Yuriko Backes	677
10		CSV	Vincent Reding	619	1.69
11		CSV	Maurice Bauer	611	1.67
12		CSV	Alex Donnersbach	602	1.64
13		CSV	Laurent Mosar	591	1.61
14		DP	Lydie Polfer	556	1.52
15		CSV	Lynn Frank	550	1.5
16		CSV	Alain De Bourcy	544	1.48
17		CSV	Natalie Silva	542
18		CSV	Emilie Costantini	540	1.47
19		CSV	Laurent Braun	536	1.46
20		CSV	Marie Laure Goeres	517	1.41
21		CSV	Jean-Marie Hoffmann	512	1.4
22		CSV	Abby Toussaint	509	1.39
23		CSV	Marthe Scharfe	507	1.38
24		CSV	Danira Mustafic	496	1.35
25		DG	Sam Tanson	490	1.34
26		DP	Gérard Schockmel	451	1.23
		PPLU	Sven Clement
28		DP	Corinne Cahen	447	1.22
29		DP	Patrick Goldschmidt	415	1.13
30		DP	Claude Lamberty	409	1.12
31		DP	Simone Beissel	399	1.09
32		DP	Guy Arendt	372	1.01
33		DP	Frank Colabianchi	362	0.99
34		DP	Anne Kaiffer	359	0.98
		DG	Francoise Bausch
36		LSAP	Franz Fayot	355	0.97
37		DP	Stéphanie Obertin	353	0.96
38		DP	Corine Courtois	348	0.95
39		DP	Raphael Stacchiotti	344	0.94
40		LSAP	Francine Closener	327	0.89
41		DP	Martine Dieschburg-Nickels	318	0.87
42		DP	Alexandre De Toffol	316	0.86
43		DP	Jana Degrott	315
44		DP	Sylvia Camarda	314
45		DP	Michel Malherbe	306	0.83
		DP	Monique Smit-Thus
47		DP	Nicolas Wurth	300	0.82
48		LSAP	Claire Delcourt	259	0.71
49		DG	Djuna Bernard	223	0.61
50		FOK	Frank Engel	221	0.6
51		DG	Francois Benoy	214	0.58
52		LSAP	Cécile Hemmen	208	0.57
53		ADR	Tom Weidig	205	0.56
54		LSAP	Fabienne Dimmer	204
55		LSAP	Jean-Claude Schmit	202	0.55
56		LSAP	Romain Nati	198	0.54
57		LSAP	Régis Moes	185	0.5
58		DG	Jessie Thill	181	0.49
59		LSAP	Olivier Bichel	178
60		ADR	Alex Penning	176	0.48
		LSAP	Gabriel Boisanté
62		LSAP	Monique Feltgen	174	0.47
63		LSAP	Marguy Kirch-Hirtt	173
		LSAP	Maxime Miltgen
65		LSAP	Ben Baus	170	0.46
66		DG	Jean-Marc Cloos	168
67		DG	Cecelia Beirao	165	0.45
68		LSAP	Susanna Van Tonder	163	0.44
69		LSAP	Elisabete Cerdeira Soares	160
70		LSAP	David Viaggi	158	0.43
71		LSAP	Jeff Herr	157
72		PPLU	Mandy Arendt	156
1		DL	David Wagner
74		LSAP	Rita Velaquez-Lungui	154	0.42
75		DG	Nicolas Hentgen	152	0.41
76		DG	Charles Margue	150
77		DG	Fabricio Costa	149
78		LSAP	Marvin Caldarella Weis	147	0.4
79		LSAP	Paul Klensch	145
1		DG	Claudie Reyland
81		DG	Gaby Damjankovic	142	0.39
82		DG	Paul Zens	140	0.38
83		DG	Anna Tieben	139
84		DG	Christa Brommel	135	0.37
85		DG	Nora Forgirini	132	0.36
86		DG	Jojo De Vries	130	0.35
87		DG	Stephen De Ron	128
88		DG	Anne-Marie Linden	125	0.34
89		DG	Gilles Losch	123
90		ADR	Marc Adamy	122	0.33
91		DG	Armand Kremer	119	0.32
92		ADR	Ramon Biermann	110	0.3
		ADR	Yves Boden
94		ADR	André Faber	109
95		ADR	Nicky Stoffel	107	0.29
96		FOK	Marc Ruppert	106
97		PPLU	Lucy Agostini	103	0.28
98		ADR	Marie Therese Fuchs	102
99		ADR	Alphonse Conrardy	101
		ADR	Marco Jakoby
101		ADR	Krystyna Gawlik	100	0.27
		ADR	Maksymillian Woloszylo
103		ADR	Simon Pierrot	99
		PPLU	Jerry Weyer
105		ADR	David Gawlik	98
		ADR	Tracy Macri
107		ADR	Nadejda Muller-Trotsenko	96	0.26
108		ADR	Goulnora Soultanova	95
		PPLU	Tommy Klein
110		ADR	Lawrence Wolff-Weiss	94
111		PPLU	Gabriel Bleser	93	0.25
112		PPLU	Josiane Engel	92
		ADR	Taylor King
		ADR	Marie-Andrée Schanen-Faber
115		ADR	Serge Joachheim	91
116		PPLU	Jean Heuschling	90
117		PPLU	Kim Chang Hoffmann	89	0.24
118		PPLU	Jo Wampach	88
		PPLU	Thierry Zoller
120		PPLU	Michel Karp	86	0.23
121		PPLU	Nadine Do Carmo Freitas	85
122		PPLU	Roberta Zuge	84
123		PPLU	Mathis Godefroid	83
124		PPLU	Rebecca Lau	82	0.22
125		PPLU	Jil Michels	79
126		PPLU	Na Shi Bic	76	0.21
127		PPLU	Boris Liedtke	74	0.2
		PPLU	Jelena Mijatovic
129		PPLU	Marcel Laschette	73
130		DL	Ana Correia Da Veiga	67	0.18
131		FOK	Max Maller	60	0.16
132		FOK	Micky Maller	59
133		LF	Roy Reding	49	0.13
134		FOK	Cedric Bellwald	44	0.12
		FOK	Georges Kieps
136		FOK	Micah Dalhem	41	0.11
137		FOK	Bim Diderich
138		FOK	Daniel Miltgen
139		FOK	Caroline Quintus	40
140		FOK	Francoise Kirch	39
		FOK	Phillippe Kirch
		FOK	Laurent Ozkan
143		FOK	Camille Feltes	38	0.1
		LF	Bas Schagen
		DL	Nora Schneider
146		DL	Feliz Aluaj	37
		DL	Conny Merrene
		FOK	Guilia Jaeger
		FOK	Eiti Stein
150		FOK	Garry Assel	36
		FOK	Tatevik Manukyan
		FOK	Julie Schmit
		DL	Anastasia Iampolskaia
154		DL	Joel Delvaux	35
		DL	Mara Steiber
		FOK	Sean Klein
157		FOK	Fiona Schreiner	34	0.09
		DL	Guy Foetz
		DL	Nathalie Reuland
160		DL	Liette Bissen	33
		DL	Cleo Thoma
162		DL	Laurent Baumgarten	32
		DL	Olivier Moes
		DL	Lucia Rubino
		DL	Christine Silva
166		DL	Michel Erlpelding	31	0.08
167		DL	Hany Heshmat	30
168		DL	Lukas Held	29
		DL	Pierre Turquin
170		DL	Antoni Montserrat Moliner	26	0.07
171		LF	Romain Terzer	21	0.06
172		LF	Chantal Reinert	19	0.05
173		LF	David Bettendorf	17
		LF	Georges Schweich
175		LF	Beatrice Clément	14	0.04
		LF	Jos Didier
177		LF	Yvette Kahlen	11	0.03
		LF	Henri Turk
		LF	Laura Veira Neves
180		KPL	Alain Herman	9	0.02
181		LF	Berthe Elcheroth	8
182		LF	Gian Franco Fortunaso	7
		LF	Nico Glod
		LF	Nicole Grosges
		LF	Sonja Holper
		LF	Mirza Cibele Lima Rodrigues
		LF	Patrick Olm
		LF	Frank Scheer
		LF	Stéphanie Volz
		LF	Jean-Paul Walisch
191		KPL	Joseph Gudenburg	6
192		KPL	Roland Wolff	4	0.01
193		KPL	Carole Bestgen	3
		KPL	Getrude Rucket-Meiser
		KPL	Silvia Tiberi
198		KPL	Venanzo Bartocci	2
		KPL	Pascal Cuica
		KPL	Mars Eusani
		KPL	Gilles Fischbach
		KPL	Jordy Fuchs
		KPL	Michel Ginsbach
		KPL	Romance Goulleven
		KPL	Enrique Guerrero
		KPL	Patrick Kleeblatt
		KPL	Mohammed Mait-Rabbi
		KPL	Anne Peiffer
		KPL	Senad Ramdedovic
		KPL	Marie-Jeanne Reckinger
		KPL	Alphonse Walers
		KPL	Pierre Willkomm

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			12365	36.78
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	6412	19.07
3		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	5222	15.53
4		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	4299	12.79
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			2297	6.83
6		Pirate Party Luxembourg	PPLU	Pirate politics		1444	4.30
7		The Left	DL		Left-wing	1357	4.04
8		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	165	0.49
9		Democracy				59	0.18

Party!Candidate!Votes!%

1		CSV	Claude Wiseler	1003	2.98
2		CSV	Marion Zovilé Braquet	961	2.86
3		DP	Xavier Bettel	844	2.51
4		CSV	Serge Wilmes	723	2.15
5		CSV	Marc Lies	707	2.1
6		CSV	Elisabeth Margue	665	1.98
7		CSV	Diane Adehm	656	1.95
8		CSV	Paul Galles	621	1.85
9		DG	François Bausch	603	1.79
10		CSV	Laurent Mosar	585	1.74
11		CSV	Viviane Reding	576	1.71
12		CSV	Natalie Sliva	557	1.66
13		CSV	Fred Ternes	547	1.63
14		CSV	Vincent Reding	533	1.59
15		LSAP	Etienne Schneider	521	1.55
16		CSV	Simone Massard-Stitz	518	1.54
17		CSV	Martine Mergen	516	1.53
18		CSV	Claudine Konsbruck	501	1.49
19		CSV	Alex Donnersbach	498	1.48
20		DG	Sam Tanson	492	1.46
21		CSV	Maurice Bauer	487	1.45
		DP	Corinne Cahen
23		DP	Lydie Polfer	474	1.41
24		CSV	Nico Pundel	449	1.34
25		CSV	François Sauber	440	1.31
26		DG	Claude Schmit	421	1.25
27		CSV	Claude Steinmetz	413	1.23
28		CSV	Nadine Lux-Schares	409	1.22
29		DP	Simone Beissel	330	0.98
30		DP	Claude Lamberty	322	0.96
31		DP	Joëlle Elvinger	318	0.95
32		DP	Guy Arendt	308	0.92
33		LSAP	Franz Fayot	302	0.90
34		DP	Frank Colabianchi	301
35		LSAP	Marc Angel	296	0.88
36		LSAP	Patrick Weymerskirch	295
37		LSAP	Francine Closener	292	0.87
38		DP	Héloïse Bock	283	0.84
39		DP	Patrick Goldschmidt	263	0.78
40		DG	Charles Margue	261
		DG	Paul Polfer
42		DP	Marc Fischer	247	0.73
43		DP	Stéphanie Obertin	245	0.73
44		DP	Jeff Wirtz	243	0.72
45		DP	Martine Dieschburg-Nickels	240	0.71
46		LSAP	Cécile Hemmen	235	0.70
47		DP	Jana Degrott	230	0.68
48		DG	Djuna Bernard	228
49		DP	Françoise Dupont-Deutsch	227
50		DG	François Benoy	224	0.67
51		DP	Michel Malherbe	221	0.66
		DP	Nicolas Wurth
53		DG	Jean-Paul Roeder	218	0.65
54		DG	Jessie Thill	213	0.63
55		DG	Carlo Back	209	0.62
56		DL	David Wagner	207
57		DP	Sylvia Camarda	204	0.61
58		DP	Tania De Jager	203	0.60
59		DG	Liz Paulus	202
60		DG	Gaby Damjanovic	201
61		DP	Marco Houwen
62		DG	Christa Brommel	198	0.59
63		DG	Nora Forgiarini	196	0.58
64		DG	Claire Remmy	194
65		DG	Tanja Frank	192	0.57
		DG	Roland Tex
		ADR	Roy Reding
68		DG	Carole Ney	188	0.56
69		DG	Paul Zens	186	0.55
		LSAP	Joanne Goebbels
71		DG	Roger Miller	179	0.53
72		PPLU	Sven Clement	176	0.52
		LSAP	Ginette Jones
74		LSAP	Tom Krieps	173	0.51
75		LSAP	Liz May	172
76		LSAP	Gabriel Boisante	170
77		LSAP	Sandie Lahure	165	0.49
78		DG	Yves Wagener	164
79		LSAP	Claire Delcourt	161	0.48
80		LSAP	Régis Moes	154	0.46
81		LSAP	Ben Baus	153
82		LSAP	Nicole D'Angelo	151	0.45
83		LSAP	Monique Feltgen	145	0.43
84		LSAP	Alain Weins	144
85		LSAP	Marguy Kirsch-Hirtt	140	0.42
		LSAP	Tania Silva
87		LSAP	David Viaggi	128	0.38
88		ADR	Alex Penning	127
89		ADR	Marc Adamy	120	0.36
90		ADR	Daniel Hardy	119	0.35
91		ADR	Daniel Da Mota	118
92		ADR	Claude bintz	117
93		ADR	Nicky Stoffel	116
94		ADR	Thessy Ahles	113	0.34
95		ADR	Mario Daubenfeld	109	0.32
		ADR	Tessy Jung
97		ADR	Marceline Goergen	102	0.30
		ADR	Felix Reding
99		ADR	Gérard Philipp	101
100		DL	Nathalie Oberweis	99	0.29
101		ADR	René Moes	98
102		ADR	Daniel Rinck	97
103		ADR	Lucien Welter	96
104		ADR	Marie-Andrée Faber-Schanan	95	0.28
		ADR	Jelena Marinkovic
106		ADR	Béatrice Clément	92	0.27
		ADR	Goulnora Soultanova
108		PPLU	Georges Schweich	89	0.26
109		ADR	Nadejda Muller-Trorsenko	87
110		PPLU	Pascal Clement	83	0.25
111		PPLU	Jerry Weyer	82	0.24
112		DL	Ana Correia Da Veiga	80
113		PPLU	Lucie Kunakova	76	0.23
114		DL	Joël Delovaux	71	0.21
115		DL	Guy Foetz	67	0.20
116		PPLU	Christian Isekin	63	0.19
117		PPLU	Loïc Didelot	62	0.18
		PPLU	Cynthia Laux
119		PPLU	Sven Cannivy	61
120		PPLU	Pierrot Bis	60
		PPLU	Jil Michels
		DL	Alessandra Galli
123		PPLU	Lucas Arndt	59
		PPLU	Mireille Leisch
		PPLU	Jo Wampach
		PPLU	Thierry Zoller
		DL	Michel Erpelding
128		PPLU	Huguette Philippe-Alfonsetti	58	0.17
129		DL	Sandrine Gashonga	57
130		PPLU	Rudolphe Aben	56
		PPLU	Jeff Cigrand
		PPLU	Marc Tholl
133		DL	José Luís Correia	55	0.16
		DL	Claude Schiltz
135		PPLU	Francy Feltgen	54
		PPLU	Jeannine Pott
		DL	Claude Simon
		DL	Josée Thillmany
139		DL	Jean-Paul Faber	52	0.15
140		DL	Marc Theis	51
		DL	Concetta Valvason-Detto-Saronine
142		DL	Jeff Ries	48	0.14
		DL	Jeanne Schosseler
		DL	Isabella Tessaro
		DL	Sebastian Weier
146		DL	Beatriz Carrilho	47
147		DL	Jean Paulus	46
148		KPL	Jean-Marie Jacoby	20	0.06
149		KPL	Manuel Casanova	12	0.04
		KPL	Marco Ourth
		KPL	Gertrud Ruckert-Meiser
152		KPL	Carole Bestgen	9	0.03
153		KPL	Giulio-Enrico Pisani	8	0.02
		KPL	Roland Wolff
		D	Susanna Fernandes
156		D	Sonja Holper	7
157		KPL	Manuela Castellano	6
		KPL	Romance Goulleven
		KPL	Enrique Guerrero
		KPL	Nicolas Hemmer
		KPL	Patrick Kirchesch
		KPL	Alessandro Martins
		KPL	Serge Matagne
		KPL	Léon Ntabala Tshibuyi
		KPL	Guido Raman
		KPL	Marie-Jeanne Reckinger
		KPL	Sonja Reckinger
		KPL	Steve Richer
		KPL	Nicole Schweich
		KPL	Sandra Vibi
		D	José Medina Tarno
172		D	Christian Schleich	4	0.01
173		D	Susanna Chaussy	2
		D	Paul Marie Chirsten
		D	Joseph Cocard
		D	DARAGJATI Jean-Paul Daragjati
		D	Patricia Anne Edwards
		D	Jean-Marc Estgen
		D	GRETHEN Marcel Grethen
		D	Josette Catherine Hansen
		D	Anne Ihry
		D	Maria Lebau
		D	Blanche Hélène Leick
		D	Jeanne Meyer
		D	Marino Mossa
		D	Giuseppe Palumbo
		D	Mihaela Pana
		D	Rose Schmit
		D	Franziska Warlies-Roth

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			11644	36.80
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	7359	23.26
4		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	5461	17.26
3		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	3354	10.6
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			1532	4.84
6		The Left	DL		Left-wing	1019	3.22
7		Pirate Party Luxembourg	PPLU	Pirate politics		884	2.79
8		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	210	0.66
9		Party for Full Democracy (PID)	PID		Right Wing	187	0.57

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			11989	40.11
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	5673	18.98
4		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	5636	18.86
3		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	3354	10.6
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			1732	5.79
6		The Left	DL		Left-wing	838	2.80
7		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	170	0.57

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			10130	35.76
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	6359	22.45
3		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	4580	17.12
4		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	3599	12.70
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			2777	9.80
6		The Left	DL		Left-wing	347	1.22
7		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	268	0.95

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	7330	28.84
2		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			7090	27.90
3		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	4324	17.02
4		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	2653	10.44
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			2381	9.37
6		The Left	DL		Left-wing	798	3.14
7		The Taxpayer		Neoliberalism	Right-Wing	465	1.83
8		Green and Liberal Alliance	GAL	Green politics	Centre-left	374	1.47

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			6532	26.98
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	6381	26.36
3		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	4516	18.66
4		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	3327	13.74
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			1970	8.14
6		National Movement			Far-right	592	2.45
7		Group for the Sovereignty of Luxembourg	GLS	Nationalism		362	1.50
8		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	223	0.92
9		Neutral and Independent Human Rights Party	NOMP			161	0.67
10		Party for Regional and Real Politics	PRP			143	0.59

European parliamentary elections

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			2885	25.92
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	2519	22.63
3		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	2143	19.25
4		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	1623	14.58
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			981	8.81
6		Pirate Party Luxembourg	PPLU	Pirate politics		354	3.18
7		Focus	FOK	Pragmatism	Centre	185	1.66
8		The Left	DL		Left-wing	844	2.30
9		Volt Luxembourg	VOLT	European Liberalism	Centre-left to Left-wing	127	1.14
10			MV	Anti-Establishment	Right-wing	48	0.43
11		The Conservatives	DK	Conservatism	Right-wing	41	0.37
12		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	35	0.31
13			ZB	Internationalism	Left-Wing	15	0.13

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	2310	23.39
2		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			2228	22.56
3		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	1995	20.20
4		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	1191	12.06
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			1002	10.15
6		Pirate Party Luxembourg	PPLU	Pirate politics		409	4.14
7		The Left	DL		Left-wing	394	3.99
8		Volt Luxembourg	VOLT	European Liberalism	Centre-left to Left-wing	236	2.39
9		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	79	0.80
10		The Conservatives	DK	Conservatism	Right-wing	32	0.32

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			3819	40.63
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	1598	17.00
3		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	1595	16.97
4		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	912	9.70
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			601	6.39
6		The Left	DL		Left-wing	414	4.40
7		Pirate Party Luxembourg	PPLU	Pirate politics		288	3.06
8		Party for Full Democracy (PID)	PID		Right-wing	88	0.94
9		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	85	0.90

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			2938	31.02
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	2158	22.78
3		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	1956	20.65
4		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	1546	16.32
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			483	5.10
6		The Left	DL		Left-wing	237	2.50
7		Citizens List	BL			82	0.87
8		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	72	0.76

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			2985	33.91
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	1829	20.78
3		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	1712	19.45
4		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	1390	15.79
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			704	8.04
6		The Left	DL		Left-wing	114	1.30
7		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	69	0.78

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			2386	30.54
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	2044	26.16
3		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	1372	17.54
4		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	1071	13.71
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			556	7.12
6		The Left	DL		Left-wing	193	2.47
7		Green & Liberal Alliance	GAL	Green politics	Centre-left	190	2.43

Name!Abbr,!Ideology!Political Position!Votes!%

1		Christian Social People's Party	CSV			2140	29.05
2		Democratic Party	DP	Liberalism	Centre to centre-right	1848	25.08
3		Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party	LSAP	Social democracy	Centre-left	1361	18.47
4		The Greens	DG	Green politics	Centre-left	1086	14.74
5		Alternative Democratic Reform Party	ADR			450	6.11
6		National Movement			Far-right	172	2.33
7		Group for the Sovereignty of Luxembourg	GLS	Nationalism		143	1.94
8		Communist Party of Luxembourg	KPL	Communism	Far-left	64	0.87
9		Neutral and Independent Human Rights Party	NOMP			52	0.71
10		The Left	DL		Left-wing	51	0.69

Services

Education

The commune owns and runs a school in the southwest of the town. The commune is delegated with the task of ensuring that Government Mandated Education is enforced, the education budget is controlled, and that the school buses linking the rest of the commune with the school are operational. Many local residents, particularly of secondary school, tend to have their education outside the commune.^{[80] [81]} There is also a school in Oetrange.

Financial

The Communal Revenue department manages Contern's taxation, dept and accounting.

Emergency services

Contern is not home to any hospitals, medical clinics, police stations or fire stations and must rely on neighbouring communes for such services.^[82]

Waste collection

Waste collection is managed and run by the commune of Contern. There is a simple system of when garbage trucks come, what they pick up each day, and how much it all costs. The dump is located in the Op Dem Keller industrial zone in Munsbach and is shared with the commune of Shuttrange.^[83]

Urban planning

Contern's urban planning is run by its urban planning department. They control and manage building permits and requests. There's a two-tier system for any form of construction or landscaping. Minor interventions include small construction projects such as minor landscaping, street and sidewalk construction and the building of wells and outdoor facilities while major interventions cover construction or extension of new housing or office space, or modifications to the structure or load-bearings of existing infrastructure.^[84]

Other

The commune also offers services for reception, revenue, technical and communications.^[85]

Social component

Contern is in partnership with the communes in Schuttrange and Weiler-la-Tour with whom they share an office in Moutfort.^[86]

Contern endeavors to encourage the entire population to speak a large variety of languages. Many Local children speak Luxembourgish, French, German and even English. The commune wishes to spread the speaking of all these languages to everyone in their boundaries, assisted heavily by their Luxembourgish courses.^[87]

Luxembourgish has been on the rise recently, with many documents being posted in Luxembourgish, sometimes exclusively. The commune of Contern is encouraging learning of the national language through courses they have arranged. Courses occur yearly to meet the needs of the large immigrant population.^[88]

Municipality

The commune of Contern operates many of the services in its designated area.^[89] The commune runs multiple buildings such as the town hall, municipal workshop and social office.^[90] It also issues many public documents available online. Applications for commune job are possible, even for people as young as 16.^{[91] [92]} All new regulations made the by the commune are also available in PDF form online.^[93] The human resources department service is responsible for managing municipal jobs, including jobs for students aged 16 and over during the summer.^[94] The commune also offers the "cost of living allowance." It comes from the FNS and can be applied for as long as the decision is enclosed with the SNSF agreement, together with an PDF form which needs to be completed.^[95] There's also a separate National Fund for low income citizens, the total sum is determined mostly by their household.^[96]

WIFI4EU

Contern has worked with the European Commission to bring publicly available WI-FI to certain areas of the commune. These include both the site of the former school and parts of the current one, Prince Charles Park in Oetrange, the park in Moutfort and the Cultural Centre in Medingen. These by no coincidence, are all located within the four main settlements in Contern. There are potentially more areas which meet the criteria set by the European Commission to warrant a new hotspot but none are planned for the moment. WIFI4EU is by no means unique to Contern.^[97]

Coat of arms

Description

The Contern Coat of arms is "Argent a fess wavy Gules charged with three triangles also wavy Or, said fess accompanied in chief by a cross anchored Gules, at the base of a shell Sable."^[98]

The commune of Contern received its coat of arms on 26 July 1982. These are coats of arms in the shape of a shield divided into three parts, one for each village of the municipality.

• The upper part shows a cross derived from the coat of arms of the lords of Larochette who owned Contern from 1534 to 1731.
• The bars come from the coat of arms of the Grandpré family, lords of Roussy, who were the owners of the villages of Moutfort, Medingen and Pleitrange. The bars undulate to represent the River Syre which runs through the town.
• The lower part shows a shell derived from the coat of arms of the Metternich family to which Oetrange belonged.

Usage

The Contern Coat of arms is used all over the commune, on the flag, outside official buildings, even on the wheelie bins. Its distinctive looks and colour make it easy to spot.

Shopping

Contern is home to a large number of small businesses which local residents can do their shopping at. This is not only restricted to settlements as the industrial zone is home to the only Big Box Store in the commune. The other stores consist of but are not limited to grocery stores, drink shops and bakeries. Contern also has a variety of hair salons and pharmacies. Most of these are concentrated around Moutfort due to the E29 main road slicing the town in twain. The commune is full of mixed use development hence why shops although occasionally found in dedicated shopping districts, are still just as often in residential areas.^[99]

Culture, sport and leisure

There are many cultural centres in Contern all of which have their own events. They are Chapel Street in Medingen, Moutfort Cultural and Sports Centre, Oetrange Cultural Centre, and "An Henks" Cultural Centre in Contern.^[100] There are a total of seven different monuments in Contern, dotted across the various towns and serving different purposes. There are three different war memorials, one in Contern itself, one in Oetrange and one in Moutfort. In Moutfort there is another monument to the liberators in Luxembourg, and in Oetrange there is a white bridge named Liberation Bridge. There are two smaller monuments, one in the industrial zone, and one more in Moutfort.^[101]

The Comic Strip Festival was started by a man named Daniel Grun and has been going since 1994. It was the first of its kind in the country although that is now no longer the case.^[102] It is known as BD Contern.^[103]

Appelfest is an annual autumn festival that takes place in Contern, near the Gemeng or municipal administration. It is well known amongst the locals and every year banners are placed on the lampposts on the streets into the town and road signs point to it to inform everyone when and where it will take place.

Every year on the first Sunday in Lent, as in the rest of Luxembourg Contern celebrates the burgbreenen festival on a small trail near Hoehenhof. A large bonfire is made and the local residents are invited to a gathering. This is a historic tradition to "burn away the winter" and say hello to spring.

There are many cultural events which happen in Contern.^[104] For younger people there are a number of small play areas dotted around the commune.^{[105] [106]} There is also the annual Christmas March in early December.

Local festivals and events in Contern include Integration Week, Day of Sporting and Cultural Merit, Environment Week, Commemoration Day and many more.^[107]

The Auto pédestre hiking paths are mapped out by the commune to increase use and decrease risk. There are seven of these in Contern, all clearly marked and labelled, with maps available online.^[108] Some of them leave the commune at times, while most only go between towns in Contern.^{[109] [110]}

Contern has many cycle paths that are part of regional or national itineries. There are also many unmarked gravel or paved paths which are mostly dedicated to cyclists all across the commune. This includes many paths linking hamlets such as Faerschthaff so that their tractors can access the farm more easily. Motor vehicles excluding tractors are banned from all these paths, but they are open to cyclists.^[111]

Contern has semi-professional basketball team in the form of AB Contern who have won the Luxembourg basketball League and cup on multiple occasions.^{[112] [113]} There are a number of basketball courts and football fields within and just outside the commune. There is also a children's Football Club with a full size playing field located at Moutfort. It is the "Union Sportif Moutfort-Medingen" or USMM for short, set up in 1937. It attracts people not just from Contern but also the neighbouring communes.^[114]

Contern is also home to many public courts for Multisports and Petanque.^{[115] [116]} The nearest swimming pool is regional, outside of the commune entirely in Nideranven.^[117]

Notable people

• Luc Frieden (born 1963) - Prime minister of Luxembourg since 2023; currently resides in Contern
• Elisabeth Margue (born 1990) Minister for Justice since 2023

External links

• • Link to Commune's Website https://www.contern.lu/fr/Pages/default.aspx

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79. List 8 was assigned to Mir d'Vollék, which contested the 2023 communal elections
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88. Web site: Cours de luxembourgeois . 2022-02-26 . Contern . fr-FR.
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91. Web site: Postes vacants . 2022-02-26 . Contern . fr-FR.
92. Web site: e-Raider . 2022-02-26 . Contern . fr-FR.
93. Web site: Règlement de police . 2022-02-26 . Contern . fr-FR.
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96. Web site: Allocation de vie chère du Fonds National de Solidarité . 2022-02-26 . Contern . fr-FR.
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