Gottenhouse
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Saverne | |
| Community association | Pays de Saverne | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 43 ' N , 7 ° 22' E | |
| height | 191-240 m | |
| surface | 1.25 km 2 | |
| Residents | 384 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 307 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67700 | |
| INSEE code | 67161 | |
| Website | http://gottenhouse.free.fr | |
 Gottenhouse, behind the Hohbarr Castle |
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Gottenhouse ( German : Gottenhausen ) is a French commune with 384 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Saverne and the Canton of Saverne .
geography
The community of Gottenhouse is located on the edge of the North Vosges , immediately south of the city of Saverne .
Neighboring communities are Saverne in the north, Otterswiller in the northeast, Marmoutier in the southeast, Thal-Marmoutier in the south and Haegen in the southwest.
history
middle Ages
Gottenhausen belonged to the Ochsenstein rule . When the family of the von Ochsenstein extinct in the male line with Georg von Ochsenstein 1485, the inheritance came through his sister to the counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch .
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought Gottenhausen 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 inheritance resulting from this constellation also included the rule of Ochsenstein. In the administrative structure of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg Gottenhausen was added to the Westhofen office . Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg immediately carried out the Reformation in the inherited areas , which, like the rest of his dominion, now became Lutheran .
With the reunion policy of France under King Louis XIV , the Westhofen and Gottenhausen offices came under French sovereignty. In the 18th century they no longer belonged to the Westhofen office, which after the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , 1736 fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the Hereditary Prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hessen-Darmstadt .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2012 | 2014 |
| Residents | 188 | 208 | 218 | 285 | 313 | 352 | 372 | 392 | 391 |
literature
- Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 638-640.
