Buethwiller

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Buethwiller
Buethwiller coat of arms
Buethwiller (France)
Buethwiller
region Grand Est
Department Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement Altkirch
Canton Masevaux
Community association Sud Alsace Largue
Coordinates 47 ° 39 '  N , 7 ° 9'  E 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

Mairie -école (town hall) and school

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

Saint-Etienne church

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Buethwiller on the official website of CC Sud Alsace Largue; accessed on August 25, 2018 (French).
  2. Buethwiller on annuaire-mairie.fr (French) accessed on January 14, 2010.
  3. Toponymie du nom on buethwiller.fr (French).
  4. villare ( Wiktionary )
  5. ^ 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.
  6. Histoire du Village on buethwiller.fr (French).
  7. Buethwiller on Cassini.ehess.fr (French) accessed on January 14, 2010.
  8. Oeuvre d'un passionné on buethwiller.fr (French).
  9. ^ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Altkirch district