Dieffenbach-lès-Wœrth
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Reichshoffen | |
| Community association | Sauer-Pechelbronn | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 47' E | |
| height | 162-242 m | |
| surface | 3.61 km 2 | |
| Residents | 350 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 97 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67360 | |
| INSEE code | 67093 | |
 Mairie and St. Joseph Church |
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Dieffenbach-lès-Wœrth ( German : Diefenbach) is a French commune with 350 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Haguenau-Wissembourg and Canton Reichshoffen and is a member of the municipal association Communauté de communes Sauer-Pechelbronn .
geography
Dieffenbach-lès-Wœrth is not far from the border with Germany , west of Karlsruhe .
history
coat of arms
Description of coat of arms : Split in blue and gold; in front a six-pointed silver star moved to the head of the shield .
middle Ages
Diefenbach was an imperial fiefdom from which the Lords of Lichtenberg had bought 2/3 belonging to the Counts of Ötingen , landgraves in Alsace, in 1332 . They acquired the remaining third in 1337 from the Puller von Hohenburg. In the rule of Lichtenberg, Diefenbach was assigned to the Wörth office, which was created in the 13th century. 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 IV of Hanau (1514–1590), Elisabeth von Lichtenberg (* 1444; † 1495) Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Wörth office - and thus Diefenbach as well - came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch when it was divided.
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought the Wörth office to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg : Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, each left only one daughter as heir. Count Jakob's daughter, Margarethe (* 1540; † 1569), was married to Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599). The legacy resulting from this constellation also included the second half of the former Lichtenberg rule, which was not already governed by Hanau-Lichtenberg. Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg immediately carried out the Reformation in the inherited areas , which, like the rest of his dominion, now became Lutheran .
With the reunion policy of France under King Louis XIV , the office of Wörth and Diefenbach came under French suzerainty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance - and with it Diefenbach - 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 begun by the French Revolution , the Amt Wörth became part of France and dissolved in the subsequent administrative reforms.
Population development
| 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2017 |
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| 207 | 342 | 359 | 368 | 354 | 359 | 361 | 344 | 350 |
Attractions
- Tour de forage . The monument in the form of a derrick has been a reminder since 2005 of the brothers Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger , who on September 5, 1927 carried out the world's first borehole survey based on electrical resistance on derrick 7 southeast of Dieffenbach-lès-Wœrth. The derrick is at the exit towards Pechelbronn.
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. 1624-1626.
