Geiswiller
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| local community | Geiswiller-Zœbersdorf | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 47 ' N , 7 ° 30' E | |
| Post Code | 67270 | |
| Former INSEE code | 67153 | |
| Incorporation | 1st January 2018 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
| Website | www.mairie-geiswiller.fr | |
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Geiswiller (German Geisweiler ) is a commune déléguée in the French commune Geiswiller-Zœbersdorf with 225 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).
history
middle Ages
The village of Geisweiler was in the Buchsweiler office , which was created at the beginning of the 14th century as an office of the Lichtenberg rule . As an allod, it belonged to the Lords of Lichtenberg as early as the 13th century . In 1335 the land was divided between the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg . Geisweiler fell to Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , who founded the younger line of the house. The Lichtenbergers bought in the middle of the 14th century. the Dinghof in Geisweiler.
Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), daughter of Ludwig V. von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474), and one of two heirs with claims to the rule, married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen in 1458 (* 1417; † 1480). He had received a small secondary school from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to marry her. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. The other half went to his brother-in-law, Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Buchsweiler office - and thus Geisweiler as well - belonged to the part of Hanau-Lichtenberg that Anna's descendants inherited.
Modern times
Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), after taking office in 1538, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county, which now became Lutheran .
With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Buchsweiler office came under French sovereignty. The pioneer - officer Guillin from Neuf-Brisach in 1702 mentioned the place in a report under the name "Geisvueiller". After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, Hanau-Lichtenberg - and with it the Buchsweiler office - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval started by the French Revolution , Geisweiler became French.
On January 1, 2015, the municipality moved from the Arrondissement Strasbourg-Campagne to the Arrondissement Saverne . Geiswiller was a member of the Communauté de communes du Pays de la Zorn .
Geiswiller has been part of the Commune nouvelle Geiswiller-Zœbersdorf since January 1, 2018 . Its administrative headquarters are in Geiswiller.
Population development
| 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2005 | 2012 | 2014 |
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| 135 | 180 | 187 | 161 | 168 | 166 | 190 | 200 | 195 | 210 |
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coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a black goat on a silver background.
economy
The main industry in the village is agriculture.
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).
- Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 503-504.
