Eckwersheim

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Eckwersheim
Coat of arms of Eckwersheim
Eckwersheim (France)
Eckwersheim
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Strasbourg
Canton Brumath
Community association Eurométropole de Strasbourg
Coordinates 48 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 42 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 42 ′  E
height 139-183 m
surface 7.46 km 2
Residents 1,328 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 178 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67550
INSEE code

Eckwersheim is a French commune with 1,328 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the canton of Brumath in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). The inhabitants are called Eckwersheimois .

history

middle Ages

Protestant Church
Town hall Eckwersheim

The village was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Metz . It belonged to the rule of Oberbronn , which is documented from the 13th century and belonged to a number of noble families one after the other. At first it was the Lords of Ochsenstein . After a lost feud between the Ochsensteiners, the Lords of Lichtenberg tried to gain possession of the village in 1451, a project to which the feudal lord , the Bishop of Metz , refused to approve. When the von Ochsenstein family died out in 1485, their inheritance came to the Counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch .

Early modern age

The rulership of Oberbonn - and with it Eckwersheim - came from Zweibrücken-Bitsch to this family in 1551 as a dowry on the occasion of the marriage of Amelie von Zweibrücken-Bitsch to Philip I of Leiningen-Westerburg . As a successor to the Leininger, the Landgraves of Hessen-Homburg and, to a lesser extent, the Swedish aristocratic family of the Barons von Sinclair became lords of Oberbronn and the village of Eckwersheim in the 17th century. Due to France's reunion policy , the rule of Oberbronn and the village of Eckwersheim also fell under French suzerainty in the second half of the 17th century. The Hesse-Homburg part passed to the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein family in the middle of the 18th century , while the Sinclair part went to the von Lewenhaupt family, who were also of Swedish origin . Hohenlohe had to cede the rule to France in 1793 and was later resigned to areas of the secularized diocese of Würzburg .

Modern times

In the course of the reunion policy , the areas to the left of the Rhine - and with it Eckwersheim - fell to France. In the following administrative reforms, the rule of Oberbronn was dissolved.

On the afternoon of November 14, 2015, the Eckwersheim railway accident occurred near Eckwersheim , in which eleven people were killed: The Vendenheim junction is near Eckwersheim , where the new double-track LGV Est européenne line (high-speed line Paris-Strasbourg) after a curve into the existing one The Paris – Strasbourg line ends. A TGV , as a test train , drove the not yet opened high-speed route at too high a speed and was carried out of the curve.

Part of the damaged TGV composition ended up in the Rhine-Marne Canal .

Population development

1798 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012
0560 0669 0670 0771 0906 1,112 1,266 1,425 1,370

Economy and Infrastructure

In the community mainly arable farming is practiced.

Eckwersheim is served by the Compagnie des transports strasbourgeois bus route 71.

Attractions

  • Evangelical Lutheran Church

Personalities

literature

  • Jean-Claude Brumm: Quelques dates importantes dan l'histoire… . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (ed.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480–1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 10f.
  • 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].
  • Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480–1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.
  • Peter Karl Weber: Lichtenberg. Alsatian domination on the way to becoming a territorial state. Social costs of political innovation . Heidelberg 1993.

Web links

Commons : Eckwersheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Knöpp, p. 4.
  2. ^ Weber, p. 37, note 59.
  3. Eyer, p. 74
  4. Waltz and Rudolph.
  5. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 481: Keyword: Oberbronn (Herrschaft).
  6. ^ Matt, p. 7.
  7. See: Kathrin Ellwardt: Lutherans between France and the Reich: Church buildings in the Alsatian offices of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg under Johann Reinhard III. and Louis IX. In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2016, pp. 18–59 (34).