Eschau (Bas-Rhin)

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Eschau
Coat of arms of Eschau
Eschau (France)
Eschau
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Strasbourg
Canton Illkirch-Graffenstaden
Community association Eurométropole de Strasbourg
Coordinates 48 ° 29 '  N , 7 ° 43'  E 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
Website http://www.eschau.fr/

Saint-Trophime Abbey Church
Campanile, Eschau

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
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.

Web links

Commons : Eschau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Knöpp, p. 20.
  2. Eyer, p. 179.
  3. Eyer, pp. 233f.
  4. Eyer, p. 208.
  5. Knöpp, p. 20.
  6. Railway Atlas France . Vol. 1: North . Schweers + Wall, Aachen 2015, p. 38.