Burden
Burden is a village in the commune of Erpeldange, in northern Luxembourg. As of 2025, the village had a population of 527. Burden is accessible by car via Warken and Bourscheid. It is connected for unmotorized traffic to the N27 road with a Bailey bridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 519 residents
- Description: village in northern Luxembourg
- Also known as: “Burden, Luxembourg”
- Postal codes: L-9142 and L-9172
Places of Interest
Highlights include Église Saint-Hubert and Michelau railway station.
Michelau railway station
Railway station
Photo: GilPe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Michelau railway station is a railway station serving the town of Michelau, in the commune of Bourscheid, in north-eastern Luxembourg. It is operated by Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, the state-owned railway company.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Michelau and Welscheid.
Michelau
Village
Photo: GilPe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Michelau is a small town in the commune of Bourscheid, in north-eastern Luxembourg. As of 2025, the town had a population of 403. It is served by Michelau railway station, which lies on CFL Line 10.
Welscheid
Village
Welscheid is a village in the commune of Bourscheid, in north-eastern Luxembourg. As of 2025, the village had a population of 222. Welscheid is connected to the cycling path PC16 with a short serpentine road to Bourscheid.
Warken
Village
Photo: LesMeloures, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Warken is a town in the commune of Ettelbruck, in central Luxembourg. The village has a population of 1,564 as of 2025 and lies near the Wark River. Warken is a part of Ettelbruck and is split in five departments: Cité Bourschterbach, Cité Warkdall, Cité Breechen. rue de Welscheid and rue de Buerden. Warken is situated 2½ km south of Burden.
Burden
- Category: locality
- Location: Erpeldange-sur-Sûre, Diekirch, Luxembourg, Benelux, Europe
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Latitude
49.88227° or 49° 52′ 56″ northLongitude
6.09749° or 6° 5′ 51″ eastPopulation
519Elevation
390 metres (1,280 feet)Open location code
8FX8V3JW+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 268808937OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2960706Wikidata ID
Q2735581
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Turkish—“Burden” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Burden”
- Cebuano: “Burden”
- Dutch: “Burden”
- Dutch: “Bürden”
- French: “Burden”
- German: “Bürden (Erpeldingen an der Sauer)”
- German: “Bürden”
- Luxembourgish: “Bierden”
- Polish: “Burden”
- Swedish: “Burden, Luxemburg”
- Swedish: “Burden”
- Turkish: “Burden”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Burden”. Photo: Jwh, CC BY-SA 3.0 lu.