Mersch
Mersch is a canton in the centre of Luxembourg. It is the only canton, other than Luxembourg, to be entirely surrounded by other cantons, and therefore not to have an international boundary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: canton of Luxembourg with 36,300 residents
- Description: canton in Luxembourg
- Also known as: “Canton of Mersch”
- Neighbors: Central Luxembourg and Mullerthal
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mierscher Theater and Pettingen Castle.
Pettingen Castle
Ruins
Pettingen Castle is located in the village of Pettingen some 4 km north of Mersch in central Luxembourg. It is one of the best preserved fortified castles in the country.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mersch and Rollingen.
Mersch
Photo: MMFE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mersch is a town of 9,400 people in central Luxembourg, where the rivers Alzette, Mamer and Eisch meet.
Rollingen
Village
Photo: Johnny Chicago, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rollingen is a town in the commune of Mersch, in central Luxembourg. As of 2025, the town has a population of 2,250. The painter Corneille Lentz was born here. Moreover, Rollingen is the hometown of the pro-cyclist Bob Jungels.
Reckange
Village
Photo: MMFE, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Reckange is a small town in the commune of Mersch, in central Luxembourg. As of 2025, the town has a population of 1,077. The nearby Menhir of Beisenerbierg is a Neolithic age standing-stone. Reckange is situated 3½ km west of Mersch.
Mersch
- Location: Luxembourg, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Zeeuws—“Mersch” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Merş”
- Bavarian: “Kanton Mersch”
- Belarusian: “Мерш”
- Catalan: “Cantó de Mersch”
- Cebuano: “Canton de Mersch (kanton sa Luksemburgo)”
- Cebuano: “Canton de Mersch”
- Chinese: “Mersch”
- Chinese: “梅尔施县”
- Czech: “Kanton Mersch”
- Danish: “Mersch”
- Dutch: “Kanton Mersch”
- Dutch: “Mersch”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Mersch”
- French: “Canton de Mersch”
- German: “Kanton Mersch”
- Hungarian: “Mersch kanton”
- Indonesian: “Kanton Mersch”
- Indonesian: “Kanton Miersch”
- Italian: “cantone di Mersch”
- Italian: “Cantone di Mersch”
- Italian: “Mersch”
- Japanese: “メルシュ郡”
- Korean: “메르슈주”
- Limburgan: “Kanton Mersch”
- Limburgan: “Mersch”
- Lithuanian: “Meršo kantonas”
- Low German: “Kanton Mersch”
- Luxembourgish: “Kanton Miersch”
- Luxembourgish: “Miersch”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mersch”
- Northern Frisian: “Mersch”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mersch”
- Norwegian: “Mersch”
- Persian: “مرش (کانتون)”
- Persian: “مرش”
- Polish: “Kanton Mersch”
- Portuguese: “Mersch”
- Romanian: “Mersch”
- Russian: “Мерш”
- Scots: “Mersch”
- Slovak: “Mersch”
- Slovenian: “Kanton Mersch”
- Spanish: “Canton de Mersch”
- Spanish: “Cantón de Mersch”
- Swedish: “Canton de Mersch (kanton i Luxemburg)”
- Swedish: “Mersch”
- Swiss German: “Kanton Miersch”
- Thai: “อำเภอเมียร์ช”
- Thai: “อำเภอแมร์ช”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kanton Miersch”
- Turkish: “Mersch kantonu”
- Turkish: “Mersch”
- Ukrainian: “Люксембург”
- Ukrainian: “Мерш (кантон)”
- Ukrainian: “Мерш”
- Vietnamese: “Mersch”
- Zeeuws: “Mersch (kanton)”
- Zeeuws: “Mersch”
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