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.Photo: Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 694 residents
- Description: commune in Luxembourg
- Postal codes: L-5444, L-5445 and L-5446
- Neighbors: Mondorf-les-Bains and Remich
Photo: Jwh, CC BY-SA 3.0 lu.
Notable Places in the Area
Localities in the Area
Perl
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Photo: Meffo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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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 south-eastern Luxembourg. 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=villageGeoNames ID
2960107Wikidata ID
Q183841Schengen Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Schengen
- Arabic: شينجن
- Arabic: شينجن، لوكسمبرج
- Arabic: شينجن، لوكسمبرغ
- Armenian: Շենգեն
- Azerbaijani: Şengen
- Basque: Schengen
- Belarusian: Шэнген
- Bosnian: Schengen
- Bulgarian: Шенген
- Bulgarian: община 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
- English: Schengen, Luxembourg
- 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: Gemeng Schengen
- Luxembourgish: Schengen
- Luxembourgish: commune de Schengen
- Macedonian: Шенген
- Malay: Schengen, Luxembourg
- Min Nan Chinese: Schengen
- Norwegian: Schengen
- Norwegian Bokmål: Schengen
- Occitan (post 1500): Schengen
- Persian: شنگن
- Persian: شنگن، لوکزامبورگ
- Persian: شنگن لوکزامبورگ
- Polish: Schengen
- Portuguese: Schengen
- Romanian: Schengen, Luxemburg
- Romanian: Schengen
- Russian: Шенген
- Serbian: Schengen
- Serbian: Šengen
- Serbian: Шенген
- Sinhala: ෂෙන්ගන්
- Slovak: Schengen
- Slovenian: Schengen
- Spanish: Schengen
- Swahili: Schengen
- Swedish: Schengen
- Swiss German: Schengen
- Tosk Albanian: Schengen
- Turkish: Schengen
- Udmurt: Шенген
- Ukrainian: Шенген
- Urdu: شینگن، لکسمبرگ
- Uzbek: Schengen, Luxembourg
- Vietnamese: Schengen
- Wu Chinese: 申根
- Yue Chinese: 神根
- ෂෙන්ගන්, ලක්සම්බර්ග්
Other Places Named Schengen
In the Area
Schengen is situated close to the localities Markusberg and Markusbierg.
- GemengergréndchenLocality
- MéchelsbongertLocality
- a PäschLocality
- op DällenLocality
- am Sierker BongertLocality
- RoutwissLocality
Popular Destinations in Moselle Valley
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Schengen. Photo: Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0.