Forstheim
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Reichshoffen | |
| Community association | Sauer-Pechelbronn | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 54 ' N , 7 ° 43' E | |
| height | 174-246 m | |
| surface | 5.05 km 2 | |
| Residents | 584 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 116 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67580 | |
| INSEE code | 67141 | |
Forstheim is a French commune with 584 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). She is a member of the Communauté de communes Sauer-Pechelbronn .
history
middle Ages
Forstheim was a fiefdom of the empire to the Duchy of Lorraine . In the 14th century, the associated forestry law - also as an imperial fief - came to the Lichtenberg rule . One half of the village was an after-fief of the duchy to the lords of Lichtenberg, the other half to the lords of Ettendorf . The Lichtenberg part was assigned to their office in Wörth , which was established in the 13th century.
When Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last male member of the house, died in 1480 , the inheritance was shared between his two nieces, Anna and Elisabeth. Anna had married Count Philipp IV of Hanau (1514–1590), Elisabeth von Lichtenberg (* 1444; † 1495) Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Wörth office - and with it the Lichtenberg share in Forstheim - came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch when it was divided.
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought the Wörth office 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 legacy resulting from this constellation also included the second half of the former Lichtenberg rule, which was not already governed by Hanau-Lichtenberg.
Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg immediately carried out the Reformation in the inherited areas , which, like the rest of his dominion, now became Lutheran . Philip V gave the powerful and Roman Catholic Duchy of Lorraine, which was feudal lord in Forstheim, an excuse to withdraw all of its fiefs from Hanau-Lichtenberg. In July 1572 Lorraine troops occupied parts of the county and reversed the Reformation. Since Philip V was not up to the military superiority, he chose the legal route. At the trial before the Imperial Court of Justice, Lorraine was able to rely on the fact that, on the one hand, considerable areas of Zweibrücken-Bitsch were Lorraine fiefs and, on the other hand, the Counts of Leiningen had sold their inheritance claims to Lorraine in 1573.
Only in 1604 and 1606 was there a contractual settlement between Hanau-Lichtenberg and Lorraine. It included a division and took into account the old treaties: The Bitsch rule fell back to Lorraine and the Lemberg office , which had been an allod of the Zweibrücker counts, was assigned to Hanau-Lichtenberg. Forstheim belonged to the Lorraine fiefdom and fell back to this.
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Forstheim belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Weissenburg district in the Lower Alsace district .
Population development
| 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2004 | 2008 | 2017 |
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| 550 | 487 | 492 | 459 | 480 | 561 | 577 | 540 | 543 | 584 |
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).
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1629-1630.
