Gildwiller

Gildwiller
region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Altkirch
Canton	Masevaux
Community association	Sud Alsace Largue
Coordinates	47 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 8 ′  E
height	288-357 m
surface	5.02 km 2
Residents	271 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	54 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	68210
INSEE code	68105
Website	www.gildwiller.fr
Town hall and school building

Gildwiller (German Gildweiler ) is a French commune with 271 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the canton of Masevaux and is a member of the community association Sud Alsace Largue .

geography

Gildwiller is 13 kilometers south of Cernay in Sundgau .

history

The name Gildwiller is derived from the Germanic name Geldulf and from the Latin word villare , which means homestead or hamlet, and is derived from villa . So it means "homestead of Geldulf".

Gildwiller is mentioned for the first time as Gyldulfoviler 728 in the documents of the Murbach monastery . Saint Morandus (1075–1115) is said to have visited the image of Our Lady in the pilgrimage church on a hill near Gildwiller every Friday. The pilgrimage site is one of the oldest in Alsace.

Until 1648 the parish belonged to the county of Pfirt . From the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) until the end of the First World War , Gildwiller belonged as Gildweiler in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine to the German Empire and was assigned to the Altkirch district in the Upper Alsace district .

Population development

year	1910	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2017
Residents	253	152	169	188	244	282	278	280	271

Church of the Epiphany ( Église de l'Épiphanie-de-Notre-Seigneur )

economy

The image of the landscape is shaped by fruit trees, fields and forests. The main occupations are agriculture , cattle breeding and forestry. There is also a brewery in Gildwiller.

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 308-310.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gildwiller on the official website of the CC Porte d'Alsace (French). Accessed January 14, 2010.
2. ↑ villare . Wiktionary
3. ↑ Patrimoine / Histoire on gildwiller.fr (French).
4. ^ Alban Butler, Kathleen Jones: Butler's lives of the saints . tape 6 . Continuum International Publishing Group, 1997, ISBN 978-0-86012-255-5 , pp. 31 (English, in Google Books - reprinted from Butlers Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and other principal Saints from 1756–59).
5. ↑ Lud. Ohl: Gildweiler. Historical note of the place of grace. Immaculata-Verlag, September 20, 1898, accessed October 8, 2009 . 
6. ↑ Altkirch district. Municipal directory Germany 1900
7. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Gildwiller on quid.fr (French)