Bourgheim

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Bourgheim
Coat of arms of Bourgheim
Bourgheim (France)
Bourgheim
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein
Canton Obernai
Community association Pays de Barr
Coordinates 48 ° 25 ′  N , 7 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′  N , 7 ° 30 ′  E
height 159-221 m
surface 2.83 km 2
Residents 640 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 226 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67140
INSEE code
Website http://www.bourgheim.fr/

Mairie Bourgheim

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Bourgheim (German Burgheim ) is a French commune with 640 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ) in France . It belongs to the Arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein and the Canton of Obernai .

geography

Bourgheim is located on the Kirneck , which here leaves the foothills of the Vosges and enters the Upper Rhine Plain, about 26 kilometers southwest of Strasbourg .

Neighboring communities of Bourgheim are Goxwiller in the north, Valff in the east, Zellwiller in the south, Gertwiller in the southwest and Heiligenstein in the west.

history

During excavations, many pottery shards from Gallo-Roman times were found, which indicate that the village has been inhabited since the 1st century. The remains of a Roman fortress served as the foundation for the construction of the Romanesque church in the 12th century .

In 738 Bourgheim was first mentioned in a document. In the Middle Ages belonged to the monasteries White Castle , Ebersmunster and Niedermunster lands in Bourgheim that of the districts Obernburg home, with the Chapel Saint-Nicolas, and low Burgheim, with the church Saint-Arbogast existed. From the 13th century the village belonged to the Holy Roman Empire . Oberburgheim disappeared in the 15th century. Maximilian I von Habsburg (1459–1519) made Barr , to which Bourgheim belonged, a crown estate, administered by Nicolas Ziegler. That is why Bourgheim, Barr, Gertwiller , Goxwiller and Heiligenstein were declared imperial villages in 1648 .

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Bourgheim belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Erstein district in the Lower Alsace district .

Population development

year 1910 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2013
Residents 194 208 240 246 257 395 409 482 561

economy

Important branches of business are viticulture , agriculture and tobacco growing . A company for the production of agricultural machines has been located locally since 1954. The company contributed to the growth of the place by providing up to 400 jobs and 55 apartments.

Attractions

St-Arbogast Church

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 906-908.

Web links

Commons : Bourgheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Erstein district