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Villa Pétrusse
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg · Independent · Accessible Luxury
Pierre Kemp built this villa in 1880 for Eugène Kerckhoff, a cloth merchant, on the old Jost bastion above the Pétrusse, while Luxembourg was taking its fortress apart. The Baldauff family gave the house the name it kept for a century. Empty for decades, it became a national monument in 2018 and opened on 16 June 2025 as Villa Pétrusse: 22 rooms, interiors by Tristan Auer, and a place in Relais & Châteaux. The casemates still run underneath, and Édouard André's garden continues the park across the valley.
- 22 rooms
- Opened 2025
- Neighborhood: Ville-Haute
- Architect: Pierre Kemp
- Interiors: Tristan Auer
About Villa Pétrusse
- Kim Kevin de Dood, who held two Michelin stars at Saint Pierre in Singapore, cooks at Le Lys, which opened on 17 June 2025, the day after the hotel. The menu is Luxembourg food with an Asian hand.
- Jim Clemes Associates restored the listed house for La Luxembourgeoise, which also owns the Place d'Armes hotel. The company bought the empty villa in 2017.
- Headboard walls carry giant reproductions of watercolors by the Luxembourg painter Sosthène Weis, pictures of the Pétrusse valley.
History
Pierre Kemp, a Luxembourg architect, designed the villa in 1880 for Eugène Kerckhoff, a cloth merchant from northern France, on the flank of the old Jost bastion. Luxembourg was dismantling its fortress, and bourgeois houses were going up beside the new parks. The villa later passed to the Baldauff family, when Albert Kerckhoff's widow married François Baldauff, and that name stayed on the house until the hotel opened. Three generations lived there. It then stood empty for years, aside from the occasional film shoot, and was classified a national monument in 2018.
La Luxembourgeoise bought the villa in 2017. Jim Clemes Associates restored the listed fabric, and Tristan Auer designed the interiors, including wallpapers after the Luxembourg painter Sosthène Weis. The hotel opened on 16 June 2025 with 22 rooms spread across the villa, the former stables (now Le Pavillon), the old orangery, and rooms under the courtyard. Le Lys, under chef Kim Kevin de Dood, opened the next day. A stretch of the fortress casemates remains below the house.
The setting
1 Avenue Marie-Thérèse, L-2132 Luxembourg City, on the edge of the Pétrusse valley, with the Adolphe Bridge in view. Édouard André's English park lies across the way, and André also laid out the villa garden as a continuation of that park. This is the capital of the Grand Duchy, on the valley side of the center.
Restaurants and bars
- Le Lys — Restaurant · One MICHELIN Star
- Ciel — Restaurant
Amenities
- Two private lounges with latest generation technology
- Outdoor terrace
- Garden on the banks of the Pétrusse
- Bespoke event organisation by in-house teams
Awards
- MICHELIN Two Keys (2026)
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