Herbsheim

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Herbsheim
Herbsheim coat of arms
Herbsheim (France)
Herbsheim
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein
Canton First stone
Community association Canton d'Erstein
Coordinates 48 ° 21 '  N , 7 ° 38'  E 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
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.

Population development
1910 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2013
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

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

Individual evidence

  1. Herbsheim website , accessed on September 14, 2018
  2. Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Erstein district