Ferrette

Ferrette ; Pfirt
region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Altkirch
Canton	Altkirch
Community association	Sundgau
Coordinates	47 ° 30 ′ N , 7 ° 19 ′ E Coordinates: 47 ° 30 ′ N , 7 ° 19 ′ E
height	429-640 m
surface	1.94 km 2
Residents	729 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	376 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	68480
INSEE code	68090
Website	http://www.ferrette.fr
	; Ruins of Hohenpfirt Castle

Ferrette ( German Pfirt ) is a French commune with 729 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the arrondissement Altkirch and the canton Altkirch and the municipality association Sundgau .

geography

To the north and west is the municipality of Vieux-Ferrette and to the south and east is Bouxwiller . The Sentier Interregio , an intermunicipal hiking trail, begins in Ferrette and then passes the Sondersdorf to the south-west . In addition, the community borders Ligsdorf in the south and Bendorf in the southwest .

The hamlet of Bergmatten is south of the town center .

history

The current settlement, called Ferrette , was built around 900 years ago.

Pfirt was the main town in the county of Pfirt . In the Thirty Years' War this passed to Cardinal Mazarin via Louis XIV . Later the settlement was ruled by the House of Grimaldi from Monaco . The princes of Monaco still call themselves Counts of Pfirt today . In 2006 Albert II of Monaco was a guest. Otto von Habsburg was among the regular guests .

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Ferrette belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Altkirch district in the Upper Alsace district .

For the origin of the place name, see Vieux-Ferrette .

Population development

year	1910	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2004	2007	2016
Residents	508	708	798	783	727	863	1020	1041	999	687

Attractions

The place is of half-timbered buildings marked.
The church of Saint-Bernard de Menthon is partly Gothic , monument historique since 1902.
The oxblood-red Renaissance town hall (Hôtel de Ville) dates from 1570 and has been registered as a Monument historique since 1996
The Hohenpfirt castle ruins stand at 611 m. ü. NN. east of Ferrette. It dates from the time of the Habsburgs and was built from 1125. Cardinal Mazarin and the Grimaldis also resided here. It was burned to the ground by revolting peasants in 1789. The ruin has been a monument historique since 1930.