Herbsheim
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Sélestat-Erstein | |
| Canton | First stone | |
| Community association | Canton d'Erstein | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 21 ' N , 7 ° 38' E | |
| height | 155-160 m | |
| surface | 8.60 km 2 | |
| Residents | 925 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 108 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67230 | |
| INSEE code | 67192 | |
| Website | http://www.herbsheim.fr/ | |
 Herbsheim townscape with Sainte-Barbe church |
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Herbsheim is a municipality with 925 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin département in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ) in France .
geography
The street village is located in the Upper Rhine Plain , 24 km northeast of Sélestat and not far from the Rhine-Rhone Canal .
history
In 1136 the place is mentioned for the first time under the name Nerbolsheim in a document from the Schuttern Monastery , which had properties there. In 1359 he came under the influence of the Bishop of Strasbourg.
The Sainte-Barbe church was built in 1762 to replace an older church whose tower has been preserved.
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Herbsheim belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Erstein district in the Lower Alsace district .
At the end of the Second World War , in January 1945, 75 percent of the village was destroyed after an initial liberation in the course of a German counter-offensive.
| 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2013 |
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| 606 | 582 | 609 | 610 | 635 | 719 | 765 | 793 | 909 |
Partnerships
Herbsheim has been sibling with Schuttern , part of the municipality of Friesenheim in Baden-Württemberg, since 1998 . Schuttern is 17 kilometers (as the crow flies) east of Herbsheim on the eastern side of the Rhine.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 92-93.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbsheim website , accessed on September 14, 2018
- ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Erstein district