Mertzwiller
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region | Grand Est | |
Department | Bas-Rhin | |
Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
Canton | Reichshoffen | |
Community association | Pays de Niederbronn-les-Bains | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 52 ' N , 7 ° 41' E | |
height | 152-207 m | |
surface | 6.96 km 2 | |
Residents | 3,355 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 482 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 67580 | |
INSEE code | 67291 | |
Website | http://www.mertzwiller.fr/ | |
Mairie Mertzwiller |
Mertzwiller ( German : Merzweiler ) is a French commune with 3355 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). She is a member of the Communauté de communes du Pays de Niederbronn-les-Bains .
history
middle Ages
Merzweiler belonged to the Lichtenberg rule since 1350 . It was an imperial loan . Due to the acquisition of territory in the 14th century, the Ingweiler and Buchsweiler authorities, which had become too extensive, had to be reorganized at the beginning of the 15th century . Among other things, the Pfaffenhofen office was spun off and made independent, to which Merzweiler also belonged.
Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), one of the two heirlooms of Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474) married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417; † 1480), one of them had received a small secondary school from the inventory of the County of Hanau in order to be able to get married. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule . The Pfaffenhofen office with Merzweiler also belonged to this half. In the following period the village came into the hands of the Counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch . These counted it to their rule Oberbronn .
Modern times
The rule of Oberbonn - and with it Merzweiler - came from Zweibrücken-Bitsch to this family in 1551 as a dowry on the occasion of the marriage of Amelie von Zweibrücken-Bitsch to Philip I of Leiningen-Westerburg . At this point in time at the latest, Merzweiler finally left the sphere of influence of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg.
As a successor to the Leininger, the Landgraves of Hessen-Homburg and, to a lesser extent, the Swedish aristocratic family of the Barons von Sinclair became lords of Oberbronn in the 17th century. Due to France's reunion policy , the rule of Oberbronn and the village of Merzweiler also fell under French suzerainty in the second half of the 17th century. The Hesse-Homburg part passed to the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein family in the middle of the 18th century , the Sinclair part to the von Lewenhaupt family, who were also of Swedish descent . Hohenlohe had to cede the rule to France in 1793 and was later resigned to areas of the secularized diocese of Würzburg . In the administrative reforms following the French Revolution , the rule of Oberbronn was dissolved. Merzweiler was French now.
Population development
1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
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2692 | 2948 | 3282 | 3408 | 3524 | 3507 | 3504 | 3355 |
traffic
The municipality has a train station on the Haguenau – Niederbronn-les-Bains line , which is used by TER Alsace trains.
Attractions
- The first synagogue is dated to 1721. It was replaced by a new building in 1822, which was restored in 1872.
Personalities
- Simon Samuel (Sam) Marx (1859–1933), father of the Marx Brothers , came from Mertzwiller.
- Joseph-Paul Strebler (1892–1984), missionary, Archbishop of Lomé , Togo
- Michel Wackenheim (* 1945), church musician, composer and Roman Catholic priest
literature
- Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
- Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 874-878.
Web links
- Waltz and Rudolph. Private website on the history of Oberbronn.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eyer, p. 67.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 238.
- ^ Weber, p. 37, note 59.
- ^ Matt, p. 7.
- ↑ Waltz and Rudolph.
- ↑ Oberbronn (rule) . In: Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 481.
- ↑ Route table 5 TER Alsace (PDF; 109 kB)