Gildwiller
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region | Grand Est | |
Department | Haut-Rhin | |
Arrondissement | Altkirch | |
Canton | Masevaux | |
Community association | Sud Alsace Largue | |
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 |
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
Individual evidence
- ^ Gildwiller on the official website of the CC Porte d'Alsace (French). Accessed January 14, 2010.
- ↑ villare . Wiktionary
- ↑ Patrimoine / Histoire on gildwiller.fr (French).
- ^ 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).
- ↑ Lud. Ohl: Gildweiler. Historical note of the place of grace. Immaculata-Verlag, September 20, 1898, accessed October 8, 2009 .
- ↑ Altkirch district. Municipal directory Germany 1900
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Gildwiller on quid.fr (French)