In the “Rose­raie Châ­teau de Muns­bach” in the gar­den of Müns­bach Cast­le, a rose was bap­ti­sed “Prin­ce Charles de Luxembourg”.

Prin­ce Charles, the son of Her­edi­ta­ry Grand Duke Guil­laume and Her­edi­ta­ry Grand Duch­ess Sté­pha­nie, was born on 10 May. Bare­ly five months after his birth, a rose was chris­ten­ed “Prin­ce Charles de Luxem­bourg” in the “Rose­raie” in the park of Müns­bach Cast­le. With the rose bap­tism, the “Lët­ze­buer­ger Rou­se­frënn” keep an old tra­di­ti­on ali­ve. “It is a nice cus­tom that roses bear the name of mem­bers of our ruling house,” empha­sis­ed Mireil­le Steil, Pre­si­dent of the “Lët­ze­buer­ger Rou­se­frënn” at the christening.

Her­edi­ta­ry Grand Duke Guil­laume, Her­edi­ta­ry Grand Duch­ess Sté­pha­nie and Prin­ce Charles came to the park in Müns­bach for the naming cerem­o­ny in a small cir­cle on 5 Octo­ber. After a short tour of the rose gar­den — whe­re roses named after Grand Duke Jean and Her­edi­ta­ry Grand Duch­ess Sté­pha­nie, among others, can be seen — the chris­tening of the rose took place. After­wards, the Her­edi­ta­ry Grand Duke and Grand Duch­ess plan­ted the first spe­ci­men of the new flower.

The rose “Prin­ce Charles de Luxem­bourg” was bred by the Bel­gi­an bree­der Anne Vel­le, Lens-Roses. The pro­cess took six years, Anne Vel­le explai­ned at the chris­tening in Müns­bach. Among the spe­cial cha­rac­te­ristics of the flower were its high resis­tance and its ver­sa­ti­li­ty.
At the renow­ned rose novel­ty com­pe­ti­ti­on in Baden-Baden, the rose has alre­a­dy been award­ed the Luxem­bourg Pri­ze of Honour. Accor­ding to the bree­der, it will be available in autumn of next year.

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Visit at the “Rose­raie Schloss Muns­bach” by the Pre­si­dent of the World Fede­ra­ti­on of Rose Societies.

At the invi­ta­ti­on of the Lët­ze­buer­ger Rou­se­frënn, Count­ess Hen­ri­an­ne de Briey, Pre­si­dent of the World Fede­ra­ti­on of Rose Socie­ties, took advan­ta­ge of her visit to Luxem­bourg to visit the Park of the Châ­teau de Müns­bach to walk through the flower­beds of this magni­fi­cent natio­nal coll­ec­tion of our coun­try­’s roses.

She was thus able to admi­re the roses pro­du­ced in the past by Luxem­bourg rose gro­wers and wide­ly expor­ted throug­hout the world, as well as tho­se later chris­ten­ed in Luxem­bourg:
In all, around 150 dif­fe­rent spe­ci­es, in full bloom.
The Pre­si­dent of the Lët­ze­buer­ger Rou­se­frënn, Mireil­le Steil, sur­roun­ded by her com­mit­tee, led the visit.

We stop­ped in front of this or that rose dedi­ca­ted to a mem­ber of the grand-ducal fami­ly or to a Luxem­bourg or for­eign per­so­na­li­ty.
The rose gar­den is open to the public and is free­ly acces­si­ble every day of the week.
It should be remem­be­red that the World Fede­ra­ti­on brings tog­e­ther some fif­ty Natio­nal Fede­ra­ti­ons and that it was crea­ted by the mother of Count­ess Hen­ri­an­ne de Briey: Lil­ly de Ger­la­che, a gre­at figu­re of the Bel­gi­an resis­tance and a sur­vi­vor of Ravens­bruck.  Gas­ton de Ger­la­che, Hen­ri­an­ne’s father was with Prin­ce Antoine de Ligne, hus­band of Prin­cess Alix, a mem­ber of the Bel­gi­an expe­di­ti­ons to Antarctica.

We also brief­ly recal­led the histo­ry of the cast­le, which for a few years after the First World War was the resi­dence of the Bel­gi­an Lega­ti­on with Albert de Ligne and Jules le Jeu­ne de Muns­bach. And it was the lat­ter who, in 1921, after the trou­bled years of dis­cord, con­tri­bu­ted to the set­ting up of the Eco­no­mic Uni­on with Belgium.

Lët­ze­buer­ger Rousefrënn

15 June 2020

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