Eschau (Bas-Rhin)
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region | Grand Est | |
Department | Bas-Rhin | |
Arrondissement | Strasbourg | |
Canton | Illkirch-Graffenstaden | |
Community association | Eurométropole de Strasbourg | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 29 ' N , 7 ° 43' E | |
height | 142-148 m | |
surface | 11.83 km 2 | |
Residents | 5,303 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 448 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 67114 | |
INSEE code | 67131 | |
Website | http://www.eschau.fr/ | |
Saint-Trophime Abbey Church |
Eschau is a French commune with 5303 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region ( Alsace until 2015 ).
Geographical location
Eschau is located in the southern part of the agglomeration around Strasbourg . In the east, the Rhine forms the state border with the Federal Republic of Germany . Between Eschau and the northern adjacent Ostwald are three lakes .
history
Political Affiliation
Eschau has belonged to the Lichtenberg rule since the end of the 13th century . The Lords of Lichtenberg probably bought the village from those of Ötingen . In the rule of Lichtenberg it was only formally assigned to the Wolfisheim office because it was passed on as a fief to the von Ratsamhausen family. In the period that followed, the Wolfisheim office - and with it also feudal lordship over Eschau - came to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in 1480 and to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1736 . Even at this time it is still mentioned as part of the Wolfisheim office.
With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , Eschau also came under French sovereignty, and with the upheaval started by the French Revolution , it became French.
Population development
1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2013 |
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2099 | 2490 | 2881 | 3109 | 3828 | 4410 | 4758 | 4763 |
Buildings
The Ottonian - Romanesque abbey church of Saint-Trophime of the former Eschau monastery , built in the late 10th century, is one of the oldest churches in Alsace. That is why Eschau is a place on Romanische Strasse . Parts of the richly decorated cloister (11th / 12th centuries) and the Romanesque furnishings of the former monastery are now in the Musée de l'uvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg . In 1987 a campanile containing six bells was built in the cemetery surrounding the church, out of respect for the old church, about 80 meters south-east .
traffic
Departementsstraße 468 runs east of the village. The Rhine-Rhône Canal runs through the village . From 1886 to 1957, Eschau was connected to the Strasbourg – Marckolsheim regional tram operated by the Compagnie des Tramways Strasbourgeois .
In the north of the municipality, the Pierre-Pflimlin Bridge connects the French route nationale 353 (new) with the Baden-Württemberg state road L 98, which leads to Offenburg .
Community partnerships
Eschau's German partner community is the Hofweier district of the community of Hohberg in Baden-Württemberg , a few kilometers south of Offenburg. There are friendly relationships with the community of Goldscheuer on the other side of the Rhine.
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 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 392-397.