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Blast from the Past !
45 YEARS IN KIRCHBERG
Calling Kirchberg home Brochure commémorative - 175 ans de la Chambre de Commerce www.cc.lu/uploads/tx_userccpublications/ Chambre_de_Commerce_1841-2016.pdf Centenaire - Administration des bâtiments publics Luxembourg abp.gouvernement.lu/dam-assets/ pics/abp-centenaire-web.pdf Fund for the Urbanisation and Development of the Kirchberg Plateau www.fondskirchberg.lu/histoire We would like to thank Mr Robert Philippart for his contribution to this article.
More info : Original text available in the Merkur online archive: www.cc.lu/en/merkur/archive/
The year 2021 marks 45 years since the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce has called the Kirchberg Plateau home. In 1976, the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce moved its premises from Boulevard Roosevelt, which skirts the southern edge of Luxembourg City’s old town perched above the UNESCO World Heritage casemates fortifications, out to its current location on the Kirchberg Plateau as part of an expansion plan to create more space for the Chamber of Commerce. The architect of the new building was Carlo Kerg, in collaboration with the office of Kuhlmann-Biro-Biro-Weiland, and work on it began in 1972. The new building was inaugurated in 1976, and thereby saw the Chamber of Commerce join the ranks of
the European Parliament and other European Institutions that had begun settling in Kirchberg already in the 1950s and 1960s, following the construction of the Grande-Duchesse Charlotte Bridge in 1963 that connects the heart of Luxembourg City to Kirchberg by spanning the Alzette Valley. Despite the nearly continuous development of the district over the past 60 some years, it’s still possible to catch the scent of wildflowers wafting on a summer’s breeze thanks not only to the expert urban planning of the Fund for the Urbanisation and Development of the Kirchberg Plateau, but also the nearby Kirchberg Arboretum, or Parc Klosegrënnchen, and to this day, the Chamber of Commerce is happy to call Kirchberg home.
Photos: Chamber of Commerce archives, Photothèque de la ville de Luxembourg; Edouard Kutter
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