Frœschwiller

Frœschwiller
region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Reichshoffen
Community association	Sauer-Pechelbronn
Coordinates	48 ° 57 '  N , 7 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 57 '  N , 7 ° 43'  E
height	188-262 m
surface	5.75 km 2
Residents	503 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	87 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	67360
INSEE code	67147
Website	http://www.froeschwiller.com
Town hall and school building

Frœschwiller (German 'Fröschweiler') is a French commune with 503 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). Frœschwiller is a member of the municipal association Communauté de communes Sauer-Pechelbronn .

geography

Frœschwiller is located in the North Vosges , 18 kilometers northwest of Haguenau .

history

• On December 22, 1793 at Froeschwiller in the First Coalition War, troops of the Austrian Army on the Upper Rhine under Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser were defeated by the French revolutionary troops under General Hoche .
• The battle of Wörth on August 6, 1870 between the allied German troops and the troops of the French Empire under Marshal MacMahon is known in France as the Bataille de Froeschwiller . The local pastor Carl Klein (1838–1898) reported on the horrors of the battle in his much-read Fröschweiler Chronicle .

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2017
Residents	438	465	484	508	515	564	522	503

Attractions

• War memorial as a memorial for the Thirty Years War
• Half-timbered houses
• Saint-Michel church
• Frœschwiller Castle, ancestral seat of the later Count Eckbrecht von Dürckheim since the 14th century . The castle was built around 1407 as a hall with two towers. The present castle was built around 1850 and expanded in 1890 by Gabriel von Seidl for Albert von Dürckheim. Later in changing ownership.

See also : List of Monuments historiques in Frœschwiller

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  Frœschwiller Castle

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  Evangelical Peace Church

Personalities

• Ferdinand Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin , French lawyer
• Tim Klein (1870–1944), German writer and journalist, son of Carl Klein

literature

• Carl Klein: Fröschweiler Chronicle. War and peace pictures from 1870 . Beck, Nördlingen 1877 (36 editions until 1916)
• Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1630-1634.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ( Église de la Paix ), inaugurated in 1876 as a replacement for a previous building that was destroyed in the war in 1870

Web links

Commons : Frœschwiller  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Froschweiler in the Topographia Alsatiae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• The Bataille from Fröschweiler from Die Zeit 32/1995 (last checked on May 24, 2010)