Kirrwiller
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region | Grand Est | |
Department | Bas-Rhin | |
Arrondissement | Saverne | |
Canton | Bouxwiller | |
Community association | Hanau-La Petite Pierre | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 49 ' N , 7 ° 32' E | |
height | 181-275 m | |
surface | 4.89 km 2 | |
Residents | 540 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 110 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 67330 | |
INSEE code | 67242 |
Kirrwiller (German Kirweiler ) is a French commune with 540 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).
history
middle Ages
The village of Kirweiler was in the Buchsweiler office , which was created at the beginning of the 14th century as an office of the Lichtenberg rule . Around 1330 there was a first, in 1335 a second division of the country between the three lines of the House of Lichtenberg . Kirweiler fell to Johann II. Von Lichtenberg , half of the older line of the house, and Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , who founded the younger line of the house.
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 Kirweiler - 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 , Kirweiler became French.
On March 1, 1974, it merged with the neighboring community of Bosselshausen to form the community of Kirrwiller-Bosselshausen . Since January 1, 2007, the two localities are again independent municipalities - the official steps for the division lasted from December 29, 2006 (decision of the Prefect of the Alsace Region) to January 23, 2007 (publication of the decision in the Law Gazette).
Population development
year | 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2012 | 2014 | |
Residents | 456 | 569 | 616 | 606 | 631 | 647 | 684 1 | 505 2 | 514 | 522 | 543 |
Source: INSEE - 1 with Bosselshausen; 2 without Bosselshausen |
Attractions
- The Lutheran Church was built between 1780 and 1790 and replaced the previous building from 1613. At that time the church was a simultaneum . Since the Roman Catholic community moved into its own church in 1912, it has been purely Protestant again .
- Kirrwiller is known nationwide for the Royal Palace , the third largest variety theater in France.
Lutheran Church, Monument historique
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).
- Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 205-209.