Katzenthal
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Colmar-Ribeauvillé | |
| Canton | Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines | |
| Community association | Vallée de Kaysersberg | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 6 ′ N , 7 ° 17 ′ E | |
| height | 210-660 m | |
| surface | 3.50 km 2 | |
| Residents | 528 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 151 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68230 | |
| INSEE code | 68161 | |
 View of Katzenthal, in front on the right castle ruins Wineck, in the background the Rhine plain with the city of Colmar |
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Katzenthal is a French commune with 528 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). She is a member of the Communauté de communes de la Vallée de Kaysersberg .
geography
The village, located about seven kilometers northwest of Colmar on the western edge of the Upper Rhine Plain , is flanked in the west by the forested mountains of the Vosges . The municipality is part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park .
history
Skeletal finds from 1899, dating from 2000 to 1700 BC. BC, prove that the area around Katzenthal was inhabited as early as the Neolithic . Today's place arose around Wineck Castle, which was built in the late 12th century . The first time the place was called Chacindale in a document from Pope Lucius III. mentioned.
In the Middle Ages the place to belong rule Landsberg in the 16th century Lazarus of Schwendi was that in 1568 by Emperor Maximilian II. Was elevated to the "Baron von Landsberg" (from 1572 "baron of Hohenlandenberg"). In the Peace of Rijswijk (1697) the area became French again. From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Katzenthal belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Rappoltsweiler district in the Upper Alsace district .
During the First and Second World War , the site was the scene of hostilities, which caused great damage, especially towards the end of the Second World War, during the battle in the Colmar pocket.
Since 1986, Katzenthal and several Alsatian communities have belonged to the Lazarus-Schwendi-Städtebund and thus recall a particularly happy period in its history.
Population development
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 509 | 463 | 483 | 528 | 505 | 505 | 497 | 544 | 528 |
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economy
Viticulture plays an outstanding role in Katzenthal . The single vineyard Wineck-Schlossberg on the Alsace Wine Route is an Alsace Grand Cru vineyard.
Attractions
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- The castle Wineck was built around 1200, but was in 1502 already destroyed. Since 1972, an association takes care of the preservation and partial restoration of the castle, whose dungeon is visible from afar.
- The Saint-Nicolas church was built in 1719 after Katzenthal became its own parish in 1690. The church tower was not built until 1895. The severe damage to the building from fighting in World War II could not be finally repaired until 1955.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 672-675.
