Diedendorf
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Ingwiller | |
| Community association | Alsace Bossue | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 53 ' N , 7 ° 3' E | |
| height | 220-286 m | |
| surface | 10.11 km 2 | |
| Residents | 330 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 33 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67260 | |
| INSEE code | 67091 | |
 Diedendorf Castle |
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Diedendorf is a French commune with 330 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It is assigned to the Arrondissement of Saverne and the Canton of Ingwiller .
geography
The municipality of Diedendorf is located on the Upper Saar in the west of the Krummes Alsace landscape , about eight kilometers southwest of Sarre-Union . In the southwest, the municipality of Diedendorf borders the Moselle department in Lorraine .
Neighboring communities of Diedendorf are Harskirchen in the north, Sarrewerden in the northeast, Wolfskirchen in the east, Niederstinzel in the south and Vibersviller (point of contact) and Altwiller in the northwest.
history
It was first mentioned in 699 as Villa Didinescheaime . Later the place was called Dedendorf , Dietendorf and Diedendorff . In the 14th century the place was abandoned as a result of plague , famine and war. In 1559 the Huguenots reestablished .
In an introductory letter in 1570, Count Johann IV von Nassau-Saarbrücken enfeoffed his Landvogt Johann Streiff von Lauenstein with land and a dairy in Diedendorf - including permission to build a castle there. Diedendorf was one of the seven French villages that had recently been repopulated by the Lorraine Reformed. The castle was built around 1580. The bailiff came from a small noble family whose members held administrative offices in the counties of Saar Werden and Herbitzheim . Johann Streiff, who also had the church of Diedendorf built in 1588, bought numerous tithe together with his wife Maria von Eich ; he died in 1595, leaving behind a daughter and six sons. His daughter Elisabeth married Mathias Steyss de Görnitz, lender at Lorentzen Castle, around 1570. One of his sons, Johann Eberhard, also became Vogt of the Nassau-Saar County and succeeded his father in the castle. An outstanding personality in his descendants was "Colonel" Eva Streiff von Lauenstein, widow of her cousin Philipp Streiff. In 1647 she moved with her two small children from Livonia to Diedendorf to settle in the castle, which had been devastated by the Thirty Years War. The place remained uninhabited between 1641 and 1644. The last castle owner of the Streiff family was a Baroness Charlotte Frédérique von Münchhausen, born Quadt von Landskron (1684–1762) (parents of Ernst Friedemann von Münchhausen ), who inherited the castle in 1722 from her maternal uncle Otto Eberhard Streiff von Lauenstein; In 1730 she moved with her husband, the ducal Saxon-Weimar chief steward Ernst Friedemann von Münchhausen (1686–1762) to Herrengosserstedt near Weimar and sold the Diedendorf Palace in 1730 to August Wilhelm von Lüder, bailiff of the county.
A number of owners followed, fourteen in little more than a century. Finally, the castle was acquired by the large landowner Simon Striffler in 1862 and remained in his family until the Second World War. Occupied first by the Germans and then by the Americans in 1944, the house was only partially inhabited for years. Jean Schlumberger, mayor of the village, bought it in 1966 for his daughter Nancy. Jean-Daniel Ludmann, then museum director of the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, acquired it from her in 1977 and extensively restored it. After his death it was resold.
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Diedendorf belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Zabern district in the Lower Alsace district .
Population development
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 428 | 405 | 411 | 403 | 344 | 329 | 347 | 389 | 330 |
Attractions
- Castle from 1570
- Protestant church, built in 1588
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1068-1069.
Web links
- Diedendorf at the Communauté de communes d'Alsace Bossue