Luxembourgish Americans
Luxembourgish Americans are Americans of Luxembourgish ancestry. The United States 2000 Census said that there were 45,139 Americans of Luxembourgish descent.[2] In 1940 there were 100,000 Americans with Luxembourgish ancestry.[3]
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 47,129 (2019)[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Illinois · Wisconsin · Michigan • Minnesota · Iowa · California | |
| Languages | |
| American English · Luxembourgish · German · French | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism · Judaism · Lutheranism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| German Americans · Belgian Americans · French Americans |
The first families from Luxembourg went to the United States around 1842. They left because of the overpopulation and economic change in Luxembourg.
Most Luxembourgish Americans live in the Midwest. This was where most of them settled in the nineteenth century. In 2000, the states with the largest Luxembourgish American populations were Illinois (6,963), Wisconsin (6,580), Minnesota (5,867), Iowa (5,624), and California (2,824).[4]
Luxembourgish Americans Media
A Luxembourgish American couple from Wormeldange, Luxembourg, photographed in Minnesota circa 1890.
Emigrants leaving for the United States in the German port of Hamburg, 1874
The Pond—Moonlight by Edward Steichen, one of the most expensive photographs ever sold
References
- ↑ Table B04006, People Reporting Ancestry, 2019 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates, United States Census Bureau
- ↑ "QT-P13. Ancestry: Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) – Sample Data". United States Census Bureau. 2000. Archived from the original on 10 February 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2006.
- ↑ "De L'état à la nation 1839–1989" Imprimeries St. Paul. p. 145.
- ↑ "US population by ancestry and state". United States Census Bureau. 2000. Retrieved 29 July 2006.