Schueberfouer

The 681st edition of the largest amusement park in the wider region beyond national borders started on 23 August 2023 and ended on 11 September 2023.

[4] The founding document stated it was to begin on the eve of the feast of St Bartholomew and last for a full eight days.

The name Schueberfouer is thought to originate probably from the name of the market place where it was first held: the Schuedbuerg, today's "Plateau du St Esprit" (in English: Holy Spirit Plateau; in Luxembourgish: Helleggeescht-Plateau), which serves nowadays as residential location for the highest courts of justice of Luxembourg.

Another unconfirmed theory links the term "Schueber" to the old German word "Schober" (in English: barn), which would refer to the initial agricultural role of the fair.

Indeed, for almost 450 years, the fair was mainly a large and regionally very important market for everything from agricultural products and livestock to cloth, pottery and other household items.