Gries (Bas-Rhin)

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Semolina
Coat of arms of Gries
Gries (France)
Semolina
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton Brumath
Community association Basse anger
Coordinates 48 ° 45 '  N , 7 ° 49'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '  N , 7 ° 49'  E
height 125-169 m
surface 12.23 km 2
Residents 2,864 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 234 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67240
INSEE code 67169
Website http://www.gries.eu/

Gries is a French commune with 2,864 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin département in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). On January 1, 2015, the municipality moved from the Arrondissement Strasbourg-Campagne to the Arrondissement Haguenau-Wissembourg . Gries is a member of the Communauté de communes de la Basse Zorn , named after the river Zorn .

geography

Gries has grown together with the neighboring village of Kurtzenhouse .

history

Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur church in Gries

middle Ages

On the occasion of a donation to the Lorsch Abbey , Gries was mentioned in the Lorsch Codex in 953 . In 1332 Gries was bought by the Lords of Lichtenberg from the successors of the Landgraves in Alsace and assigned to the Brumath office. It was a fiefdom of the Elector and Archbishop of Mainz .

Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), one of Ludwig V's two heirs, married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417; † 1480) in 1458, who had a small secondary school from the County of Hanau had received 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, Count Jakob, one of Anna's uncle, Philip I d. Ä. In 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule, the other half went to his brother-in-law, Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Brumath office was initially a condominium between Hanau-Lichtenberg and Zweibrücken-Bitsch. Under the government of Count Philip III. From Hanau-Lichtenberg there was then a real division: The Brumath office came entirely to Zweibrücken-Bitsch. In contrast, the Willstätt office , which also came from the Lichtenberg legacy and was a condominium between the two houses, was transferred entirely to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg.

Modern times

However, there was another inheritance in 1570, which also brought the Brumath office and with it the village of Gries to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg: Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, left behind only one daughter each as heiress. Count Jakob's daughter, Margarethe (* 1540; † 1569), was married to Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599). The legacy resulting from this constellation also included the second half of the former rule of Lichtenberg, which was not already ruled by Hanau-Lichtenberg, and included the office of Brumath with Gries. In 1570, the ruling Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg also carried out the Reformation in Gries in the Lutheran version.

Due to France's reunification policy , the Amt Brumath and the village of Gries also fell under French sovereignty in 1680.

In 1717/1718 the Count of Hanau was able to use a patent letter from the French King Louis XV. Buy the sovereign rights to the town of Brumath and the castle of the same name , the hunting rights of the Stephansfelder Hospital and the sovereign rights to the villages of Krautweiler , Gries, Waltenheim and Arnsberg Castle for 25,000 livres from Kurmainz. They were no longer fiefs, but allod . 1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , he inherited the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg. In the course of the French Revolution , the left bank of the Hanau-Lichtenberg county - and with it Gries - fell to France.

Population development

year 1798 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2017
Residents 783 1,908 2,093 2,281 2,319 2,464 2,688 2,763 2,864

Attractions

The city's current Lutheran church was built between 1773 and 1777. The medieval church of the place stood outside the local situation and was demolished at that time. From 1688 the churches were simultaneous churches . In 1912 the Roman Catholics moved into their own new building. In the Lutheran church there is an organ by Johann Andreas Silbermann from 1781.

Community partnerships

Since 1979, Gries is the same German community Gries in Rhineland-Palatinate twinned.

literature

  • Jean-Claude Brumm: Quelques dates importantes dan l'histoire… . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (ed.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480–1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 10f.
  • 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).
  • 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].
  • 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.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2014/12/29/2014-1722/jo/texte
  2. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), Certificate 69, August 11, 963 - Reg. 3575. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 128 , accessed on January 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Eyer, p. 61.
  4. ↑ Eyer, p. 239.
  5. ↑ Knöpp, p. 5; Eyer, p. 164.
  6. ↑ Brumm, p. 11.
  7. ^ M. Schickelé: État de l'Église d'Alsace avant la Révolution 1 . Colmar 1877, p. 49.
  8. ^ Matt, p. 7.
  9. ↑ Kathrin Ellwardt: Lutherans between France and the Empire: Church buildings in the Alsatian offices of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg under Johann Reinhard III. and Louis IX. In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2016, pp. 18–59 (42).