Luxembourg/Centre, Michel Rodange

In 1859 the first railway station of the city started to operate; for military reasons timber was the basic construction material. Between 1907 and 1913 the German architects Rüdell, Jüsgen and Scheuffel planned and organized the gradual replacing of the half-timbering by modern building techniques. The monumental main building and the high clock tower are in “Moselle Baroque”. In the entrance hall a mosaic window discloses the outline of the city; the ceiling was repainted by the Luxembourg artist Armand Strainchamps.

All people who showed their opposition/resistance towards the German policy of annexation of Luxembourg to the German Reich were arrested and brought to this building to be interrogated and sometimes tortured before being sent to prisons or concentration camps.The villa’s basement had been transformed into prisonners’ cells where numerous members of Resistance movements were interrogated and tortured. Two plaques on the outside commemorate the victims of the Resistance and the 1300 Jews whose deportation was organised here. It now houses the Luxembourg Resistance Foundation (FONARES), the Foundation for the Memory of the victims of the Shoah and the “Comité pour la mémoire de la deuxième guerre mondiale”.

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Born in the 1900s, the forerunners of the Parisian brasserie, Bouillons are popular and authentic restaurants. They serve simple and affordable dishes prepared with care, focusing on quality and reasonable prices! At Bouillon Batignolles… it's beautiful, delicious, and inexpensive… This first Luxembourgish Bouillon has chosen to set up shop next to a must-visit destination for gastronomy in the Grand Duchy: "Le CÔME à la MAISON," this unique concept space combining a café and restaurant, a concept store, and events.