Bourgheim
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region | Grand Est | |
Department | Bas-Rhin | |
Arrondissement | Sélestat-Erstein | |
Canton | Obernai | |
Community association | Pays de Barr | |
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 | 67060 | |
Website | http://www.bourgheim.fr/ | |
![]() Mairie Bourgheim |
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 |
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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
- Church of St. Arbogast from the 12th century
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 906-908.