Dimbsthal
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Saverne | |
| Community association | Pays de Saverne | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 40 ′ N , 7 ° 21 ′ E | |
| height | 266-362 m | |
| surface | 1.91 km 2 | |
| Residents | 311 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 163 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67440 | |
| INSEE code | 67096 | |
Dimbsthal is a French commune with 311 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). The neighboring communities are Marmoutier in the northeast, Singrist in the east, Salenthal in the southeast and Birkenwald and Hengwiller in the southwest.
history
Description of the coat of arms : In red a silver crook .
middle Ages
Dimbsthal belonged to the Ochsenstein rule . It was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Metz . When the family of the von Ochsenstein extinct in the male line with Georg von Ochsenstein 1485, the inheritance came through his sister to the counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch .
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought Dimbsthal 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 inheritance resulting from this constellation also included the rule of Ochsenstein. In the administrative structure of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg, Dimbsthal was added to the Westhofen office . 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 France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Westhofen and Dimbsthal offices came under French sovereignty. In the 18th century, however, Dimbsthal no longer belonged to the Westhofen office, which after the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , 1736 fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the Hereditary Prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hessen-Darmstadt .
Population development
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2005 | 2012 | 2014 |
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| 200 | 207 | 214 | 217 | 235 | 278 | 314 | 300 | 308 |
literature
- 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 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , p. 637.
