Hattmatt

Hattmatt
region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Saverne
Canton	Saverne
Community association	Pays de Saverne
Coordinates	48 ° 47 '  N , 7 ° 25'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '  N , 7 ° 25'  E
height	173-234 m
surface	4.15 km 2
Residents	691 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	167 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	67330
INSEE code	67185
Lutheran Church of St. Laurentius

Hattmatt is a French commune in the department of Bas-Rhin in the region Grand Est (2015 Alsace ). It is assigned to the canton of Saverne and the Arrondissement of Saverne .

geography

The village with 691 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) is located on the Zinsel , 35 kilometers northwest of Strasbourg . The A4 autoroute runs along the southern border of the municipality and runs from Metz to Strasbourg.

Surname

The place name probably means "Matte des Herr Hatto", where Matte is the Alemannic term for meadow or pasture land and Hatto is an old German given name.

history

middle Ages

The village of Hattmatt was in the Buchsweiler office , which was created at the beginning of the 14th century as an office of the Lichtenberg rule . There was a mill in the village. Around 1330 there was a first division of land between Johann II. Von Lichtenberg , from the older line of the house, and Ludwig III. from Lichtenberg . Half of Hattmatt fell into the part of the property that was managed by the older line in the future. In 1354, the illegitimate daughter of Johann II (Hannemann) von Lichtenberg (1317 - † 1366), Agnes, received half of Hattmatt as part of her trousseau when she married the knight Götz von Grostein .

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 also Hattmatt - 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. 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 , Hattmatt became French.

Population development

year	1798	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2009	2017
Residents	426	577	615	622	621	591	681	632	661	691

economy

• FAMMAB Eberhard France SA produces high quality drilling and milling tools.
• Manufacture d'orgues alsacienne (MOA) was founded in 1975 and has been involved in organ building ever since .

Attractions

• Lutheran Church from 1787.

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 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1115-1117.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eyer, p. 238.
2. ^ Matt, p. 7.
3. ↑ Eyer, p. 78.
4. ↑ Eyer, p. 107.
5. ^ Matt, p. 7.
6. ↑ 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 (49).