Montreux-Vieux
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Altkirch | |
| Canton | Masevaux | |
| Community association | Sud Alsace Largue | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 37 ' N , 7 ° 1' E | |
| height | 338-361 m | |
| surface | 4.14 km 2 | |
| Residents | 899 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 217 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68210 | |
| INSEE code | 68215 | |
| Website | http://www.montreux-vieux.fr/ | |
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Montreux-Vieux (German Altmünsterol ; Alsatian Alt Menschtral ) is a French commune with 899 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Altkirch , the canton Masevaux and is a member of the community association Sud Alsace Largue .
geography
The municipality of Montreux-Vieux is located in the extreme south-west of Alsace on the border with the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region . In the southeast of the municipality, the Rhine-Rhône Canal runs in the area of the Burgundian Porte between Altkirch and Belfort .
Neighboring communities of Montreux-Vieux are Chavannes-sur-l'Étang in the north, Valdieu-Lutran in the east, Magny in the south-east, Montreux-Jeune in the south, Montreux-Château in the south-west and Cunelières and Foussemagne in the north-west.
history
Altmünsterol, first mentioned on June 2, 962 in a deed of donation from Emperor Otto I to the Andlau Abbey , was part of the Münsterol reign (see Montreux-Château ) bailiff owned by the Counts of Pfirt and from 1350 by the Habsburgs . As their servants, the Lords of Münsterol owned the place and the strategically important surrounding area at the Burgundian Gate until it died out in 1560. In 1444, the place was devastated by invading Armagnaks . From 1560 until the upheavals of the French Revolution in 1790, the rule belonged to the lords of Reinach-Münsterol . In 1648, the place and rule - like the rest of the Habsburg possessions and rights in the Sundgau - fell to France.
The location on the language border came in 1871 with the peace treaty of Frankfurt again for strategic reasons together with the French-speaking communities Valdieu ( Gottesthal ) and Montreux-Jeune ( Jungmünsterol ) as the eastern part of the former canton of Fontaine to the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . With this demarcation, the three Montreux were politically and administratively separated, since Montreux-Château remained with France. Altmünsterol experienced a sharp increase in population in the years up to 1914 (1871: 294 inhabitants, 1914: approx. 1000 inhabitants). This was due to the fact that the local train station was expanded to become a border station (1st class station, marshalling yard, freight yard, depot) and the relevant authorities (border police, customs, post office) were settled there. There were also industrial companies such as the Dürr-Delamare cognac distillery and the Laible mushroom canning factory . During the First World War , units of the French 1st Army under General Pau occupied the place during the advance on Mulhouse on August 6, 1914. After the return to France (1919), the place lost part of the importance it had gained. From 1940 until the liberation in 1944, the place actually belonged to the German Reich ( Gau Baden-Alsace ), the station last functioned as a border station.
East side of the Church of St. Alban 
South side of the Church of St. Alban 
Water tower
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 917 | 967 | 1010 | 969 | 905 | 769 | 850 | 899 |
Transport links
Montreux-Vieux has a station on the Paris – Mulhouse line , which was put into operation on October 15, 1857. This is where the TER Alsace and TER Franche-Comté trains stop .
Personalities
- Joseph Rossé , born August 26, 1892, Alsatian autonomist, member of parliament and politician; † October 24, 1951 in Villeneuve-sur-Lot
- Hans Paetsch , born on December 7, 1909, German actor, director and voice actor, † February 3, 2002 in Hamburg
- Léon Hégelé , born January 30, 1925, French clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Strasbourg; † February 11, 2014 in Sierentz
See also
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , p. 322.
Web links
- Montreux-Vieux on cc-porte-alsace.fr (French)