Kœtzingue
| Kœtzingue | ||
|---|---|---|
.svg)
|
|
|
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Mulhouse | |
| Community association | Saint-Louis agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 39 ′ N , 7 ° 24 ′ E | |
| height | 281-370 m | |
| surface | 5.14 km 2 | |
| Residents | 600 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 117 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68510 | |
| INSEE code | 68170 | |
 Municipal administration and school building in Kœtzingue |
||
Kœtzingue ( German Kötzingen ) is a French commune with 600 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the arrondissement of Mulhouse and the municipality of Saint-Louis Agglomération .
geography
The municipality of Kœtzingue is located in Sundgau , about halfway between Mulhouse and Basel . The town center describes a square, the center of which remained undeveloped. In this area, called Tiefend , there used to be a well on the Muehlbach , which supplied the residents with drinking water and fed the cattle trough . Most of the 5.14 km² municipal area is used for agriculture, tree-lined areas totaling around 30 hectares can only be found in the north ( inner wood ) and south of the municipality.
Neighboring communities of Kœtzingue are Schlierbach in the north, Geispitzen in the northeast, Waltenheim in the east, Magstatt-le-Bas in the southeast, Magstatt-le-Haut in the south, Zaessingue in the southwest, Rantzwiller in the west and Steinbrunn-le-Bas in the northwest.
history
The area around Kœtzingue was already settled in the Neolithic. Through the village, the Roman road moved from Mandeure in Doubs to Kembs on the Rhine .
The name of the village changed several times in writing. About Cozingen, Chozingen and Koezingen (1297) 1510 was Kozingen-Kozen .
Kœtzingue belonged to the feudal lords of Landser and the chapter Inter colles ( between the hills ) of the diocese of Basel .
In 1801 the place name still had the spelling Ketzingen .
At the beginning of the 19th century the Gutzwiller district, which is over 1000 hectares in size, came to the municipality of Kœtzingue southwest of the core town. In 1871 there were still 71 farms in Kœtzingue with less than five hectares of floor space. From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Kœtzingue belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the district of Mulhouse in the district of Upper Alsace .
Population development
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residents | 336 | 243 | 251 | 295 | 388 | 422 | 491 | 553 | 600 |
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | |||||||||
Attractions
The church of St. Leogegar ( Saint-Léger ) was built in 1862. The stones come from a nearby quarry, only the corner stones and the stones of the church tower were broken in Emlingen, ten kilometers away . The inhabitants took over the transport of the stones on a voluntary basis. The church's furnishings include a Pietà from the 16th century, a baptismal font and a Rinckenbach organ from 1885.
Economy and Infrastructure
In addition to a few farms, there are small craft and service businesses in the municipality of Kœtzingue. 19 farms are located in the municipality (grain cultivation, dairy farming, cattle breeding). Some of the residents commute to the nearby industrial and commercial areas in the nearby Rhine Valley, to Mulhouse or to Switzerland.
The D 21 trunk road from Mulhouse to Kappelen runs through the municipality of Kœtzingue . Eight kilometers to the east there is a connection to the Autoroute A 35 from Strasbourg to Basel near Sierentz . Sierentz train station is on the Strasbourg – Basel railway line .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 1127-1129.
supporting documents
- ↑ toponym on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ a b Register of municipalities in Germany 1900 - Mülhausen district
- ↑ Kœtzingue on cassini.ehess.fr
- ↑ Kœtzingue on insee.fr
- ↑ Farms on annuaire-mairie.fr (French)
