Buethwiller
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Altkirch | |
| Canton | Masevaux | |
| Community association | Sud Alsace Largue | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 39 ' N , 7 ° 9' E | |
| height | 279-317 m | |
| surface | 3.84 km 2 | |
| Residents | 277 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 72 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68210 | |
| INSEE code | 68057 | |
 Mairie -école (town hall) and school |
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Buethwiller (German Bütweiler ) is a French commune with 277 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the canton of Masevaux and is a member of the community association Sud Alsace Largue .
geography
Buethwiller is located in Sundgau , four kilometers northeast of Dannemarie , 17 kilometers southwest of Cernay and 18 kilometers southwest of Mulhouse , between the neighboring communities of Balschwiller in the north and Hagenbach in the south. The Largue flows through the municipality and the Rhine-Rhône Canal runs along its southern border.
history
The place name is composed of the Germanic name Buodo and the Latin word villare , which means hamlet and is derived from villa . Buethwiller was first mentioned in a document as Botwilr in 1302 and appears as Buotwiler in 1420 . So it means "hamlet of Buodo".
Buethwiller was an old dinghof of the Saint-Morand priory in Altkirch , which gave the dinghof to the Hagenbach family, seigneurs of the place of the same name as a fief . The village Buethwiller, however, belonged to the Seigneurie Thann , which in turn belonged to the Holy Roman Empire from 1324 to 1648 under the rule of the Habsburgs .
The church Saint-Etienne was built 1736th The bell tower was added in 1759. The cemetery was established in 1728. In 1793 Buethwiller received the status of a municipality as a Buettwiller in the course of the French Revolution and in 1801 the right to local self-government.
From 1871 to the end of the First World War (1914-1918) Buethwiller belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Altkirch district in the Upper Alsace district . Buethwiller was bombed during the First World War.
Attractions
The historical oil press originally comes from Hirsingue .
Population development
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2014 |
| Residents | 217 | 174 | 184 | 201 | 218 | 199 | 224 | 273 | 266 |
coat of arms
The municipal coat of arms shows two golden wheels on a red background, which are supposed to remind of two former water mills in the municipality, and a silver knife, which was taken from the coat of arms of the Altenach family and municipality .
Economy and Infrastructure
The Les Courlis kindergarten was inaugurated in 1993. It is used jointly by the municipalities of Buethwiller, Balschwiller and Eglingen .
The main occupations in Buethwiller are arable farming and the breeding of domestic cattle and domestic pigs .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 291-295.
Web links
- Buethwiller.fr - official site (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Buethwiller on the official website of CC Sud Alsace Largue; accessed on August 25, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Buethwiller on annuaire-mairie.fr (French) accessed on January 14, 2010.
- ↑ Toponymie du nom on buethwiller.fr (French).
- ↑ villare ( Wiktionary )
- ^ Ernest Nègre : Toponymie générale de la France . Volume 1: Formations préceltiques, celtiques, romanes (= Publications romanes et françaises. Volume 193, ISSN 0079-7812 ). Librairie Droz, Geneva 1990, Google Books (French), accessed January 14, 2010.
- ↑ Histoire du Village on buethwiller.fr (French).
- ↑ Buethwiller on Cassini.ehess.fr (French) accessed on January 14, 2010.
- ↑ Oeuvre d'un passionné on buethwiller.fr (French).
- ^ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Altkirch district