Boulaide

Boulaide

Bauschelt
Boulaide Bauschelt
Commune
	Town hall
	Coat of arms
	Map of Luxembourg with Boulaide highlighted in orange, and the canton in dark red
	Coordinates: 49°53′12″N 5°48′52″E / 49.8867°N 5.8144°E
Country	Luxembourg
Canton	Wiltz
Government
• Mayor	Jeff Gangler
Area
• Total	32.13 km2 (12.41 sq mi)
• Rank	22nd of 100
Highest elevation	487 m (1,598 ft)
• Rank	23rd of 100
Lowest elevation	319 m (1,047 ft)
• Rank	98th of 100
Population (2023)
• Total	1,499
• Rank	94th of 100
• Density	47/km2 (120/sq mi)
• Rank	100th of 100
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
LAU 2	LU0000801
Website	boulaide.lu

Boulaide (French pronunciation: [bulɛd]; Luxembourgish: Bauschelt [ˈbæːʊʃəlt]; German: Bauschleiden) is a commune and small town in north-western Luxembourg. It is part of the canton of Wiltz, which is part of the district of Diekirch. As of 2023, it has a total population of 1,499.

The commune is composed of three villages: Boulaide, which as of 2024 has a population of 754,^[1] Baschleiden, and Surré.

In 1976 the township erected a monument in honor of the 35th Infantry Division, who liberated the town during World War II.

Boulaide is also a part of the European Road of Freedom. This project was initiated by the Jewish Painter and Sculptor Otto Freundlich, who was killed in a German concentration camp during World War II. Together with his friend Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss he had planned to create two sculpture roads. The first one was supposed to go from North to South and they had called it "The road of human fraternity". The second one was supposed to go from West to East and its name was "the road of human solidarity and the memory of the liberation" At the intersection of the two roads in Auvers-sur-Oise in France they had planned to erect a high tower called "the Lighttower of peace by means of the seven arts". But Otto Freundlich could not carry out his plans and so some 35 years ago, the German artist Leo Kornbrust took over the project and now the plans are to create a road of sculptures from the landing coast in France to Moscow in Russia. In Boulaide this Road of Freedom is present through a group of wooden sculptures, created by the Luxembourgish artist Marie Josée Kerschen.

In 2022, the band Grandpa Charlie released the song BOULAIDE! in honour of the commune, which garnered some media attention in Luxembourg.^[2]