The Luxembourg Commission for Co-operation with UNESCO is organising - in partnership with Cercle Cité - a series of conferences on the concept of heritage; the first will look at the Mansfeld Castle in Luxembourg-Clausen.

The first in the “Les Rendez-vous de l’UNESCO” series, entitled “La patrimonialisation du Château Mansfeld à Luxembourg-Clausen”, will retrace the progress of the ongoing application of cultural heritage of this site.

Among the country's great historical sites, the Mansfeld site is the youngest since it has only emerged in the last fifteen years. It includes the remains of the castle and gardens and the landscape that the Governor of the Duchy of Luxembourg, Count Peter Ernest of Mansfeld (1517-1604), created in Clausen in 1563 and 1604. The conference traces the progress of the heritage process and attempts to place the series of events in the specific operation in stages of this process.

Luxembourg and European specialists will present the programmes and analyse what UNESCO devotes to cultural, natural, intangible and documentary heritage. They will also look at aspects that go beyond the strict notion of heritage, for instance its influence on the identity of the human beings who share it, the role it plays in social cohesion, the definition of natural heritage and how to manage wealth and sustainable development.

The Mansfeld conference will take place on 23 April 2018 at Cercle Cité from 18:30-20:00. Jean-Luc Mousset, curator of the MNHA, will lead the event.