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Echternach

 

a town in Luxembourg, on the Sure River, a tributary of the Moselle. Population, approximately 3,000. Echternach grew up around a monastery founded in 698. It was rebuilt after being badly damaged in World War II. Echternach is noted for many architectural monuments, including the Romanesque basilicas of St. Willibrord (1017–31, restored 1953) and of St. Peter and St. Paul (1220), the remains of fortress walls with five towers (11th century), and the Gothic town hall, known as the Denzelt (13th century).

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