Waldbillig, the commune that named Little Switzerland

Waldbillig is one of those places whose name hardly anyone knows and whose scenery almost everyone has seen in a photo. Within its borders sit the hamlet of Müllerthal, which lent its name to the entire region, and the Schiessentümpel waterfall with its little stone bridge, the most reproduced image of Luxembourg’s Little Switzerland.

Three villages and a valley

STATEC put the commune’s population at 1,999 on 1 January 2026, spread over eight official localities. The three that matter to visitors could hardly be more different. Waldbillig, in the middle of the commune on a plateau, is the administrative centre, with the town hall and school. Christnach, which the commune itself calls a model village, has kept its big farmsteads closed around wide courtyards, and new houses stick to the same generous scale. And down in the Black Ernz valley is Müllerthal.

Müllerthal is little more than a few houses, two hotels and some campsites, says the commune’s website, set among monumental rock formations. Yet it’s the place that named the region and the starting point for a great many walks. It’s also where two routes of the Mullerthal Trail, the second and the third, cross.

The Schiessentümpel

The Schiessentümpel waterfall on the Black Ernz is the symbol of the region. Its sandstone bridge was built in 1879 by a local mason, Jean-Pierre Prommenschenkel from Christnach, and today it doubles as the border with Consdorf. You reach it on foot from the Heringer Millen, about a kilometre away, or from the car park on the CR 121, some 500 m off.

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The Heringer Millen

In the hamlet, the restored 17th-century Heringer Millen reopened in 2009 as a visitor centre run by the commune’s tourism association. It has a mill museum, a big wheel still in working order, a wood-fired oven where bread is baked, an information desk and a restaurant. It’s where I’d stop for maps before setting off.

Michel Rodange and the village of Waldbillig

Waldbillig is where Michel Rodange was born, Luxembourg’s national poet and the father of Renert, the Luxembourgish take on Reynard the Fox. The commune’s website says so on its home page, and visitluxembourg sums the place up in exactly those terms, as the village of the poet’s birthplace, on a green plateau ringed by forest. The town hall occupies what the commune calls a building from the start of the century, with large windows framed in red brick, originally built as a sports hall, the first in the country.

Between Christnach and Waldbillig, away from the roads and among centuries-old woods, lies a golf course, according to the commune. It’s the other side of the area, more plateau and farmland than rocks.

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Staying in the commune

STATEC counted just one hotel and one campsite in Waldbillig in 2025, and two hotels in 2024; the commune itself talks of two hotels and several campsites in Müllerthal. With numbers that small, I’d also look at the hotels in Echternach, which you can reach by bus, or Berdorf, a short walk along the Trail.

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