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Schwiedelbrouch

village in Luxembourg

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ3246477 ↗
Source-derived summary

Schwiedelbrouch (Luxembourgish: Schwiddelbrouch) is a village in the commune of Rambrouch, in the Diekirch District, and the canton of Redange, in western Luxembourg. (Historically it was in the commune of Folschette.) As of 2001, the village has a population of 80.

Editorial summary

“Schwiedelbrouch” enters the record as village in Luxembourg. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Schwiedelbrouch, village and Luxembourg can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Schwiedelbrouch, village and Luxembourg.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Schwiedelbrouch” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Schwiedelbrouch, village and Luxembourg provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3246477. Authority coordinates are 49.830, 5.855. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2001.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Schwiedelbrouch”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Schwiedelbrouch primary sources, Schwiedelbrouch archive and Schwiedelbrouch research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Schwiedelbrouch”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Schwiedelbrouch” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.