Heiligenstein (Bas-Rhin)

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Heiligenstein
Heiligenstein coat of arms
Heiligenstein (France)
Heiligenstein
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein
Canton Obernai
Community association Pays de Barr
Coordinates 48 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 27'  E
height 189-640 m
surface 3.99 km 2
Residents 965 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 242 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67140
INSEE code

Mairie Heiligenstein

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Heiligenstein is a French commune with 965 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein and the Canton of Obernai .

geography

The municipality of Heiligenstein is located about five kilometers south-south-west of Obernai and 24 kilometers south-west of Strasbourg on the edge of the Vosges below the Odilienberg .

Neighboring communities of Heiligenstein are Obernai and Goxwiller in the northeast, Bourgheim in the east, Gertwiller in the southeast and Barr in the south and southwest.

history

Heiligenstein got its current name in 1460.

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Heiligenstein belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Schlettstadt district in the Lower Alsace district .

Population development

year 1910 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2013
Residents 709 580 608 694 728 730 861 987 959

Culture and sights

  • The castle Landsberg was built from 1197 to 1200 by Conrad of Landsberg and the Thirty Years' War in 1632 by Sweden destroyed. It was classified as a Monument historique ( monument ) in 1965 . The ruins are now privately owned. They are at an altitude of 580 m. From the upper castle from the 12th century you can still see the high square castle tower with a bay window. You can also see two round towers and a chimney with early Gothic columns of the lower castle from the 13th century.
  • The fountain Fontaine de l'Ours from the 16th century has been added to the additional directory of the Base Mérimée .
  • The town hall with a statue of Ehret Wantz , who in 1742 introduced the vine called Klevener de Heiligenstein , which is characteristic of this cultivation area . The Kleven Wine Festival takes place on the weekend before August 15th.
  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St-Jean-Baptiste with a choir tower from the 12th century.
  • The ruins of the church of the Truttenhausen monastery .

economy

The municipality gives its name to its own wine , the Klevener de Heiligenstein .

Personalities

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 66-68.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Register of municipalities in Germany 1900 - Schlettstadt district
  2. Burg Landsberg in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. Fontaine de l'Ours in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

Commons : Heiligenstein  - Collection of images, videos and audio files