The Quarters of Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourgish: Quartierën, French: Quartiers, German: Stadtteile) are the smallest administrative division for local government in Esch-sur-Alzette, the second city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
There are currently sixteen quarters, covering most of the commune of Esch-sur-Alzette. They are:
- Al Esch
- Belval
- Brill
- Brouch
- Dellhéicht
- Fettmeth
- Grenz
- Lallange
- Lankelz
- Neudorf
- Parc
- Raemerich
- Sommet
- Uecht
- Wobrécken
- Zaepert
In addition, there are two former industrial zones that are outside the remit of the quarters: one in the west (Esch-Belval), and one in the east (Esch-Schifflange).
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—Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–59 B.C.)
“The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.”
—Ashurnasirpal II (r. 883–59 B.C.)