Schengen
Schengen is a village of 4,800 people in far south-eastern Luxembourg near the tripoint where the borders of Germany, France, and Luxembourg meet. Schengen is known because the Schengen Agreement, which abolished passport controls between most EU members, was signed here in 1985.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Village with 694 residents
- Description: commune in Luxembourg
- Also known as: “Schengen, Luxembourg”
- Postal codes: L-5444, L-5445, and L-5446
- Neighbors: Mondorf-les-Bains and Remich
Photo: Jwh, CC BY-SA 3.0 lu.
Places of Interest
Highlights include European Museum Schengen and Apach.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Perl and Remerschen.
Perl
Village
Photo: Meffo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Perl is a municipality in Merzig-Wadern, Saarland, Germany. In 2020 its population was 8,824.
Remerschen
Village
Remerschen is a former commune and small wine-growing town in south-eastern Luxembourg, belonging to the commune of Schengen, near the point where the borders of Germany, France and Luxembourg come together.
Burmerange
Village
Burmerange is a village in the canton of Remich, in south-eastern Luxembourg. It used to be a commune until it was merged into Schengen in 2011. As of 2024, the village of Burmerange, which lies in the south-east of the commune, had a population of 303. Burmerange is situated 3½ km northwest of Schengen.
Schengen
- Categories: municipality of Luxembourg and locality
- Location: Remich, Moselle Valley, Luxembourg, Benelux, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
49.4716° or 49° 28′ 18″ northLongitude
6.3659° or 6° 21′ 57″ eastPopulation
694Elevation
172 metres (564 feet)United Nations Location Code
LU SCHOpen location code
8FX8F9C8+J9OpenStreetMap ID
node 88914744OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Schengen” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Schengen”
- Arabic: “شينجن، لوكسمبرج”
- Arabic: “شينجن، لوكسمبرغ”
- Arabic: “شينجن”
- Armenian: “Շենգեն”
- Azerbaijani: “Şengen”
- Basque: “Schengen”
- Belarusian: “Шэнген”
- Bosnian: “Schengen”
- Bulgarian: “община Шенген”
- Bulgarian: “Шенген”
- Catalan: “Schengen”
- Cebuano: “Commune de Schengen”
- Chinese: “Schengen”
- Chinese: “申根”
- Chinese: “神根”
- Croatian: “Schengen”
- Czech: “Schengen”
- Danish: “Schengen”
- Dutch: “Schengen (Luxemburg)”
- Dutch: “Schengen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شينجين”
- Esperanto: “Interkonsento de Schengen”
- Esperanto: “Schengen”
- Estonian: “Schengen”
- Finnish: “Schengen”
- French: “Schengen”
- French: “Shengen”
- Galician: “Convenio de Schengen”
- Galician: “Schengen, Luxemburgo”
- Georgian: “შენგენი”
- German: “Schengen”
- Greek: “Σένγκεν”
- Hebrew: “שנגן”
- Hungarian: “Schengen”
- Icelandic: “Schengen”
- Italian: “Schengen”
- Japanese: “シェンゲン”
- Korean: “셍겐”
- Korean: “솅겐”
- Korean: “쉥겐”
- Latin: “Schengae”
- Latvian: “Šengena”
- Limburgan: “Schengen”
- Lithuanian: “Schengen”
- Lithuanian: “Šengenas”
- Low German: “Gemeen Schengen”
- Luxembourgish: “commune de Schengen”
- Luxembourgish: “Gemeng Schengen”
- Luxembourgish: “Schengen”
- Macedonian: “Шенген”
- Malagasy: “Schengen”
- Malay: “Schengen, Luxembourg”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Schengen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Schengen”
- Norwegian: “Schengen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Schengen”
- Ossetian: “Шенген”
- Persian: “شنگن لوکزامبورگ”
- Persian: “شنگن، لوکزامبورگ”
- Persian: “شنگن”
- Polish: “Schengen”
- Portuguese: “Schengen”
- Romanian: “Schengen, Luxemburg”
- Romanian: “Schengen”
- Russian: “Шенген”
- Serbian: “Schengen”
- Serbian: “Šengen”
- Serbian: “Шенген”
- Sinhala: “ෂෙන්ගන්, ලක්සම්බර්ග්”
- Sinhala: “ෂෙන්ගන්”
- Slovak: “Schengen”
- Slovenian: “Schengen”
- Spanish: “Schengen”
- Swahili: “Schengen”
- Swedish: “Schengen”
- Swiss German: “Schengen”
- Tosk Albanian: “Schengen”
- Turkish: “LU1206”
- Turkish: “Schengen”
- Udmurt: “Шенген”
- Ukrainian: “Шенген”
- Urdu: “شینگن، لکسمبرگ”
- Uzbek: “Schengen, Luxembourg”
- Uzbek: “Schengen”
- Vietnamese: “Schengen”
- Waray (Philippines): “Schengen”
- Wu Chinese: “申根”
- Yue Chinese: “神根”
- Zeeuws: “Schengen”
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