Sandweiler
Sandweiler is a commune and town in southern Luxembourg. It is located 5 kilometres east of Luxembourg City. As of 2025, the town of Sandweiler, which lies in the south-west of the commune, has a population of 3,847.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: municipality of Luxembourg with 3,750 residents
- Description: municipality in Luxembourg
- Neighbors: Luxembourg
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Sandweiler-Contern railway station and Schrassig Prison.
Sandweiler-Contern railway station
Railway station
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Sandweiler-Contern railway station is a railway station serving the towns of Contern and Sandweiler, in southern Luxembourg. It is operated by Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, the state-owned railway company.
Schrassig Prison
Prison
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Schrassig Prison is the only closed penitentiary in Luxembourg. The prison is located near the towns of Schrassig, Sandweiler and Oetrange and is built upon land belonging to the commune of Schuttrange.
Oetrange railway station
Railway station
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Oetrange railway station is a railway station serving Oetrange, in the commune of Contern, in southern Luxembourg. It is operated by Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois, the state-owned railway company.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Luxembourg and Luxembourg Airport.
Luxembourg
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The city of Luxembourg is the capital of the namesake country, and with a population just under 135,000, it is the second smallest national capital of the European Union, after Malta's Valletta.
Luxembourg Airport
Locality
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Luxembourg Airport serves as the principal airport of Luxembourg and the sole international airport within the country. Formerly known as Luxembourg Findel Airport due to its location in the Findel area, it remains the only airport in Luxembourg equipped with a paved runway.
Luxembourg-Kirchberg
Suburb
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Kirchberg is a district in north-eastern Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It consists of a plateau overlooking the north-east of the historical city center, Ville Haute, connected to the rest of the elevated city by the Grand Duchess Charlotte Bridge, which spans the Pfaffenthal valley. Luxembourg-Kirchberg is situated 4½ km west of Sandweiler.
Sandweiler
- Location: Central Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Benelux, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Zeeuws—“Sandweiler” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Сандвейлер”
- Belarusian: “Сандвэйлер”
- Bulgarian: “Сандвайлер”
- Bulgarian: “Сандвейлер”
- Catalan: “Sandweiler”
- Cebuano: “Sandweiler”
- Chinese: “Sandweiler”
- Chinese: “桑德韦勒”
- Danish: “Sandweiler”
- Dutch: “Sandweiler”
- French: “Sandweiler”
- German: “Sandweiler”
- Hungarian: “Sandweiler”
- Italian: “Sandweiler”
- Japanese: “サンドウェイラー”
- Japanese: “サンドワイウレ”
- Japanese: “サンドワイラー”
- Luxembourgish: “commune de Sandweiler”
- Luxembourgish: “Gemeng Sandweiler”
- Luxembourgish: “Sandweiler”
- Macedonian: “Сандвејлер”
- Malay: “Sandweiler”
- Maltese: “Sandweiler”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sandweiler”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandweiler”
- Norwegian: “Sandweiler”
- Persian: “زانتوایلر”
- Persian: “سندوایلر”
- Polish: “Sandweiler”
- Portuguese: “Sandweiler”
- Russian: “Сандвейлер”
- Slovak: “Sandweiler”
- Slovenian: “Sandweiler”
- Spanish: “Sandweiler”
- Swedish: “Sandweiler”
- Swiss German: “Sandweiler”
- Tosk Albanian: “Sandweiler”
- Turkish: “LU0306”
- Turkish: “Sandweiler”
- Ukrainian: “Сандвайлер”
- Ukrainian: “Сандвейлер”
- Zeeuws: “Sandweiler”
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