Hengwiller
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Saverne | |
| Community association | Pays de Saverne | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 40 ′ N , 7 ° 20 ′ E | |
| height | 275-400 m | |
| surface | 2.15 km 2 | |
| Residents | 190 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 88 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67440 | |
| INSEE code | 67190 | |
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Hengwiller ( German : Hengweiler, Alsatian : Hangwiller) is a French commune with 190 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It is located in the canton of Saverne .
geography
Hengwiller is a street village . The municipality has a share in the 586 meter high Reuterskopf. The neighboring communities are Dimbsthal and Salenthal in the northeast, Birkenwald in the southeast, Oberstieg in the southwest and Reinhardsmunster in the northwest.
history
middle Ages
Hengweiler belonged to the Ochsenstein rule . It was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Metz . 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 Hengweiler 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, Hengweiler 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 Hengweiler offices came under French sovereignty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance - and with it Hengweiler - fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the hereditary prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval started by the French Revolution , the Westhofen office became part of France and was dissolved in the ensuing administrative reforms.
Population development
| year | 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2005 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 145 | 88 | 98 | 88 | 93 | 107 | 167 | 174 | 190 |
Attractions
- Saint Joseph Church, 1824
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].
- 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 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 645-646.
