Cette cache fait partie du cycle E M:
Emile Mayrisch. Par le biais de la visite de certains lieux, nous
tenterons de mettre en lumière des passages de la vie de cet
homme.
This cache is part of the cycle EM: Emile Mayrisch. Through the
visit of some places, we will try to highlight different passages
in the life of this man.
Dieser Cache ist ein Teil des Zyklus EM: Emile Mayrisch. Durch
den Besuch bestimmter Orte, versuchen wir verschiedene Abschnitte
aus dem Leben dieses Mannes zu beleuchten.
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Aline Mayrisch-de Saint-Hubert was born in Luxembourg on
22nd August 1874. The daughter of an industrialist in the timber
business, she married the young engineer Emile Mayrisch in 1894
who, in 1911, was one of the main workers involved in setting up
the ARBED of which he became the first general technical
director.
A passionate lover of art and literature, admirer of Rilke
and friend of André Gide, Aline Mayrisch turned the Château de
Colpach into a literary salon and meeting place for artists (Théo
van Rysselberghe, Charles Despiau, etc.), writers (André Gide,
Jacques Rivière, Paul Claudel, Jules Romains, Alexis Curvers,
Annette Kolb, Louise Weiss, etc.), philosophers (Bernard
Groethuysen, Paul Desjardins, Hermann von Keyserling, Karl Jaspers,
etc.) and politicians (Walter Rathenau, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi,
Wladimir d’Ormesson, etc.).
She bequeathed the château and most of her wealth to the
Luxembourg Red Cross, of which she was Vice-President from 1928 and
President from 1933. Aline Mayrisch died on 20th January 1947. In
the same year, the château became home to the ‘Emile Mayrisch
Foundation’ and has been used as a convalescent home by the Red
Cross since 1949.