Achenheim
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Strasbourg | |
| Canton | Lingolsheim | |
| Community association | Eurométropole de Strasbourg | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 35 ' N , 7 ° 38' E | |
| height | 143-191 m | |
| surface | 6.03 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,123 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 352 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67204 | |
| INSEE code | 67001 | |
| Website | http://achenheim.fr | |
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Achenheim is a French commune with 2,123 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).
geography
The community is located on the D 45 between Breuschwickersheim and Oberschaeffolsheim and on the D 222 between Ittenheim and Holtzheim . In the south the place is bordered by the Breusch Canal ( French Canal de la Bruche ). On the right side of the canal (west-east direction) is the 21 kilometer long cycle path ( piste cyclable ) that connects Strasbourg and Molsheim .
history
As evidenced by archaeological finds, Achenheim seems to have been inhabited continuously from the Paleolithic to the Roman era .
Achenheim probably belonged (partially) to the Murbach monastery in 736 . In 884 the Honau Abbey also owned Achenheim, in 910 the Strasbourg Cathedral Chapter. At the beginning of the 11th century , Bishop Wilhelm I of Strasbourg gave a Dinghof in Achenheim to Eschau Abbey, which still owned it in the 14th century: Weisthum from 1362. Later he came to the Strasbourg Cathedral Chapter. The Marschalkthum and the mayor's office in Achenheim were also owned by the Eschau monastery. It seems to have given them as a fief. In 1533 they were given to the Rechburger family by Bishop Wilhelm as the administrator of Eschau, and after their extinction in 1651 to that of Gail, who owned them until the Revolution . In 1249, Bishop Heinrich donated another farm, along with the church, patronage and tithe to Achenheim, to the Hohenforst Abbey, which, however, sold it to the St. Thomas Chapter in Strasbourg in 1345 and 1390.
The village itself was originally owned by the diocese of Strasbourg. But it seems to have been given out early on. In the middle of the 14th century it was owned by the Lords of Hohenstein as a bishopric Strasbourg fief. After repeated pledges (1448 to Claus Bitsch of Strasbourg, 1485 to Adolf von Colmar, 1487 to the Wurmser von Schäffolsheim), in 1493 half of the village with which the Wurmser were enfeoffed by the bishop. In 1515 the von Hohenstein family also sold the second half, of which the Georgen von Straßburg are named as co-owners in 1476, to the bishop, and this half also later became the fief of the Wurmser von Schäffolsheim. Since these belonged to the Lower Alsatian imperial knighthood, Achenheim became an imperial knighthood. In 1647 it came by inheritance to von Wildenstein, later (1717) to von Wangen, who owned it until the revolution.
In December 1261, Achenheim was burned by the Strasbourgers. In 1315 King Ludwig the Bavarian camped near Achenheim. In 1389 the village was burned in the Palatinate War.
Two ministerial families take their name from Achenheim: On the one hand a Strasbourg family, first mentioned in 1295, died out in 1450, on the other hand a family belonging to the landed gentry, first mentioned in 1256, extinct in 1506.
Ecclesiastically, Achenheim belonged to the rural chapter of Molsheim and before the Reformation had a rectorate incorporated into the Thomas chapter , a primissariat and a chaplaincy. Achenheim had accepted the Reformation around 1530, but in January 1618 the village became Catholic again through Georg Wurmser von Schäffolsheim. The Hangenbieten and Breuschwickersheim branches belonged to the parish . The Thomas chapter had the right of patronage.
coat of arms
Description of the coat of arms : Split in gold and black and each with a buffalo horn in mixed up colors .
Name development
- 735: Hachinheim
- 884: Hakinheim
- since 910 (German, French): Achenheim
- dialect: Achene
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 1,131 | 1,207 | 1,535 | 1,717 | 2,072 | 2,183 | 2.224 | 2.123 |
particularities
The loess pits of Achenheim were explored in the 20th century by the paleontologist Paul Wernert (1889–1972), who documented the Quaternary stratigraphy in Alsace (geology and fauna) on the basis of this work. The local school has been named Collège Paul Wernert in his honor since 1979 .
Partnerships
Achenheim is related to Gamshurst , a district of Achern in Baden-Württemberg since 1973 . The place is about 35 kilometers east on the German side of the Rhine .
Individual evidence
literature
- The realm of Alsace-Lorraine. Volumes 2 and 3, Statistical Bureau of the Ministry for Alsace-Lorraine, Verlag H. Mündel, Strasbourg 1901–1903, p. 6.
- Directory of municipalities and counties in Alsace. 3. Edition. Statistical Office for Alsace, Strassburger Druckerei u. Publishing House, 1941, p. 58.
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 821-823.
