Gone are the days of hardship and hunger, and what remains are thriving communities of Luxembourgers on both sides of the Atlantic

Statec tells us that the population of Luxembourg in 1839 (on the eve of the first migration wave) was a little over 175,000, while later research estimates that around 70,000 left the Grand Duchy for the States between then and the year 1900. The massive population loss must have left Luxembourg feeling a little empty.

  • @lux_acc
    2•2 years ago

    And earlier would be the Luxembourgers that left for Romania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvanian_Saxons

    The first ancestors of the Transylvanian ‘Saxons’ originally stemmed from Flanders, Hainaut, Brabant, Liège, Zeeland, Moselle, Lorraine, and Luxembourg,

    • ZloubidaOPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Oh, I knew te Transylvanian Saxons, but I always thought they came from the Eastern part of the Germanic cultural zone. Thanks for the share!