Contact details:
GRANDE LOGE DE LUXEMBOURG
5, rue de la Loge Luxembourg
Tel: +352 229451
Fax: +352 26864977
Email: info@grande-loge.lu
History of Freemasonery in Luxembourg:
"The first steps in Luxembourg
Freemasonry appeared in Luxembourg in the second half of the 18th century. The first Masonic lodges are attached to regiments passing through the fortress. In 1776 the English Provincial Grand Lodge of the Austrian Netherlands established the first fixed lodge in Luxembourg under the distinctive title “La Perfecte Union”. This lodge died out in 1786.
Freemasonry then returned with the military lodges of the Napoleonic troops. The first civil lodge, entitled the “Children of Fortified Concord”, was installed in 1803, under the obedience of the Grand Orient of France, then came under the aegis of the Grootoosten der Nederlanden at the end of the Empire.
In 1820 she settled in the former house of Merciers in Luxembourg (currently 5, rue de la Loge).
Emancipation and affirmation
Following the independence of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in 1839, Luxembourg Freemasonry also emancipated itself from foreign authority. In 1848, in Echternach, the “L’Espérance” lodge was born, which died out around 1875.
If the decade from 1840 to 1850 marks the culmination of the march towards independence of Luxembourg Freemasonry, it also marks a caesura in its philosophical orientation. Until then, the brothers, notable bourgeois or civil servants, mostly believing Catholics, but also Protestants or Jews, maintained good relations with the Catholic clergy.
This understanding, however, broke down when the apostolic vicar Monseigneur Laurent, an ultramontane appointed in 1842, publicly denounced the Freemasons, going so far as to cause a riot, with the population physically attacking the brothers.
This interlude provoked an anticlerical reaction and an increasing politicization of Luxembourg Freemasonry. It joined the liberal movement of European Freemasonry at the end of the 19th century and remained attached to it until 1957.
Post-war
From 1959, the Grand Lodge of Luxembourg gradually broke with Latin liberal Freemasonry. It returns to the more spiritualist principles of regularity. In the Lodge, all political or religious debates are thus prohibited and during the work, reference is made “to the glory of the Great Architect of the Universe”. The Grand Lodge of Luxembourg has been recognized by the United Grand Lodge of England and other regular grand lodges around the world since the 1960s.
Today it includes nearly 330 members and six lodges: three French-speaking lodges working in the modern French rite ("the Children of Fortified Concord", the "Perfect Union" and "St. Jean de l'Espérance"), a lodge English-speaking lodge “Friendship” established in 1974, a German-speaking lodge “Zur Bruderkette” established in 1887 and a lodge working in the ancient and accepted Scottish Rite “La Fraternity”, established in 2021."
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