Esch-sur-Sûre

Esch-sur-Sûre

Esch-Sauer
Esch-sur-Sûre ; Esch-Sauer
Commune
	Esch-sur-Sûre
	Coat of arms
	Map of Luxembourg with Esch-sur-Sûre highlighted in orange, and the canton in dark red
	Coordinates: 49°54′40″N 5°56′05″E / 49.911°N 5.93467°ECoordinates: 49°54′40″N 5°56′05″E / 49.911°N 5.93467°E
Country	Luxembourg
Canton	Wiltz
Area
• Total	51.26 km2 (19.79 sq mi)
Area rank	8th of 102
Highest elevation	529 m (1,736 ft)
• Rank	10th of 102
Lowest elevation	238 m (781 ft)
• Rank	46th of 102
Population (2018)
• Total	2,641
• Rank	56th of 102
• Density	52/km2 (130/sq mi)
• Density rank	91st of 102
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
	LU0000802
Website	esch-sur-sure.lu

Esch-sur-Sûre (Luxembourgish: Esch-Sauer, pronounced [ˌæʃˈzɑʊɐ] (listen), German: Esch-Sauer [ˌɛʃˈzaʊ̯ɐ]) is a commune and small town in north-western Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Wiltz, which is part of the district of Diekirch. At one point it was the second smallest commune by area in Luxembourg (after Remich), until Neunhausen and Heiderscheid were merged into it in 2011.^[1]

As of 2005, the town of Esch-sur-Sûre, which lies in the north of the commune, has a population of 314.

Esch-sur-Sûre is situated by the river Sauer, just east and downstream of the artificial Upper Sauer Lake. The town's prominent AD 927 castle, and the main part of the town below, sit on a spur of a land within a sharp meander of the river.

The suffix to its name distinguishes Esch-sur-Sûre from the city of Esch-sur-Alzette, which is often known just as Esch.

Immediately above the town, the river has been dammed to form a hydroelectric reservoir extending some 6 miles (10 km) up the valley. The Upper Sauer dam was built in the 1960s to meet the country's drinking water needs.