Hohfrankenheim

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Hohfrankenheim
Coat of arms of Hohfrankenheim
Hohfrankenheim (France)
Hohfrankenheim
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Saverne
Canton Bouxwiller
Community association Pays de la Zorn
Coordinates 48 ° 44 '  N , 7 ° 35'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '  N , 7 ° 35'  E
height 168-260 m
surface 2.76 km 2
Residents 265 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 96 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67270
INSEE code 67209
Church of Hohfrankenheim

Hohfrankenheim is a French commune with 265 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin département in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the municipal association Pays de la Zorn . On January 1, 2015, the municipality moved from the Arrondissement Strasbourg-Campagne to the Arrondissement Saverne .

geography

Hohfrankenheim is located at an average altitude of 200 meters above sea ​​level 21 kilometers northwest of Strasbourg , 3.3 kilometers from the canton capital Hochfelden and surrounded by the neighboring communities of Schaffhouse-sur-Zorn , Gingsheim and Mutzenhouse . The municipality has an area of ​​2.76 square kilometers.

history

On the occasion of a donation to the Lorsch monastery , the place was mentioned in the year 795 with "in Franconheimer marca" (in the Frankenheimer district) in the Lorsch Codex .

middle Ages

The village of Hohfrankenheim was part of the Buchsweiler office , which was created at the beginning of the 14th century as an office of the Lichtenberg rule . It was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Metz . Around 1330 there was a first, in 1335 a second division of the country between the three lines of the House of Lichtenberg . Half of Hohfrankenheim fell to Johann II of Lichtenberg , from the older line of the house, and half to the descendants of Johann III, who died early . von Lichtenberg , who established the middle line of the house. In 1378 Heinrich IV. Von Lichtenberg sold rights in Hohfrankenheim to Ulrich von Finstingen .

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 Hohfrankenheim - 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 , Hohfrankenheim became French.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2012 2014
Residents 132 159 173 177 217 271 257 258 261

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).
  • 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].
  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , p. 512.

Web links

Commons : Hohfrankenheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Hohfrankenheim is assigned to the Amt Brumath in a very late source (cf. Knöpp, p. 4f), which Eyer, p. 238, took over. In fact, it belonged to the Buchsweiler office (Knöpp, p. 5).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2014/12/29/2014-1722/jo/texte
  2. ↑ Le village de Hohfrankenheim. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved September 7, 2011 (French).
  3. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 1), Certificate 2620, June 11, 795 - Reg. 2512. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 186 , accessed on January 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Knöpp, p. 5.
  5. ↑ Knöpp, p. 5; Eyer, pp. 52f, 160.
  6. ↑ Eyer, p. 79.
  7. ↑ Eyer, p. 104.