A traditional treipen dinner includes potatoes, red cabbage and applesauce. This year, celebrate your heritage by adding traditional Luxembourg farmer sausage or Luxembourg treipen to your holiday menu. Luxembourg farmer sausage is a milder sausage that can be eaten...
Girls participate in a recent Echternacher Sprangprëssioun in Echternach, Luxembourg. Every year on the Tuesday after Pentecost, or Whit Tuesday, Luxembourg people celebrate a spring dancing procession, the hopping procession of Echternach (Echternacher...
During the Easter season in Luxembourg, Catholics traditionally attended Mass on Holy Thursday (Gréngendonneschden), Good Friday (Karfreiden), Holy Saturday (Karsamsden) and Resurrection Matins Easter Sunday (Ouschtersonnden). Families celebrate Easter by...
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Bretzelsonndeg, or Pretzel Sunday, which takes place on the fourth Sunday of Lent, was traditionally celebrated by young men offering a sweet puff pastry called a bretzel (pretzel) to a women as a token of his love. If the woman reciprocated the feelings, she would...
Children in Luxembourg carry lanterns, or Liichtëbengelcher, house to house to ask for treats and money on Liichtmëssdag. Three festive Luxembourgish traditions fall in February this year Easter falls on April 5 this year—a little more than two weeks earlier than last...
Did you get treats or a twig? Many Luxembourg Americans celebrate St. Nicholas Day, but for most of us, Santa Claus’s visit on Christmas Eve has always been the highlight of our holidays. In the Grand Duchy, however, Niklosdag or Kleeserchersdag is the main...
Here in the U.S. we’ve just celebrated Halloween. Our secularized, commercialized version of “All Hallows’ Eve” has grown in popularity in Luxembourg but seasonal traditions in Luxembourg have deep roots that go back centuries. In Luxembourg, people celebrate...