Balbronn
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Molsheim | |
| Canton | Saverne | |
| Community association | Mossig et Vignoble | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 35 ' N , 7 ° 26' E | |
| height | 209-450 m | |
| surface | 10.18 km 2 | |
| Residents | 656 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 64 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67310 | |
| INSEE code | 67018 | |
| Website | http://www.balbronn.fr/ | |
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Balbronn (German Ballbronn , Alsatian: Bàlvere ) is a French commune with 656 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ) in the commune belongs to the arrondissement of Molsheim , the canton of Saverne and is a member of the Communauté de communes de la Mossig et du Vignoble .
geography
The wine-growing town is located on the edge of the Northern Vosges Natural Park about 25 kilometers west of Strasbourg .
history
middle Ages
The castle and village of Balbronn were fiefdoms from the empire to the Lords of Lichtenberg . The first loan took place on October 21, 1302. In the Lichtenberg rule, Balbronn was assigned to the Westhofen office, and in the 15th century also to the Wörth office . When Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last male member of the house, died in 1480 , the inheritance was shared between his two nieces, Anna and Elisabeth. Anna had married Count Philipp I (the Elder) of Hanau (1417–1480), through whom the Westhofen office came to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , which resulted from this marriage .
Modern times
Count Philipp IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg carried out the Reformation in his county in 1545 , which now became Lutheran .
With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Westhofen and Balbronn offices came under French suzerainty. The Romanesque village church was now available for Roman Catholic worship after a decree by King Louis XIV . The Simultaneum came to an end with the construction of its own Roman Catholic church in 1905.
After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance - and thus also Balbronn - fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the hereditary prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval started by the French Revolution , the Westhofen office became part of France and was dissolved in the ensuing administrative reforms.
Balbronn was a member of the Communauté de communes des Coteaux de la Mossig , which was founded in 1992 and was merged into the Communauté de communes de la Mossig et du Vignoble in 2017 .
Population development
| year | 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2009 . | 2011 | 2013 |
| Residents | 1,057 | 954 | 600 | 587 | 563 | 581 | 602 | 657 | 631 | 633 | 635 |
Attractions
- The historic, today Protestant village church was built on the site of a Celtic sanctuary; the nave is from the 11th century, the steeple from the 12th century. In 1747 the church received an organ from Johann Andreas Silbermann . A replica of the Balbronn hand , an iron prosthetic arm from the 16th century , is also on display in the church .
- The Roman Catholic Church of Sainte-Catherine was built in 1905 in the neo-Gothic style.
- The synagogue was built in 1895 and served the Jewish community in Balbronn, which has been documented since the 17th century. It has not been used as a church service since the Holocaust . In 1999 it was registered as a Monument historique .
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).
- Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1527-1529.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Knöpp, p. 17; Eyer, p. 57.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 130.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 98.
- ↑ Unless otherwise stated, from: Balbronn on the INSEE site .
- ^ Matt, p. 9.
- ↑ Church of Balbronn on itinerairesprotestants.fr
- ^ Synagogue of Balbronn in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)