War Home (Bas-Rhin)
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Brumath | |
| Community association | Haguenau | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 46 ′ N , 7 ° 44 ′ E | |
| height | 159-196 m | |
| surface | 3.93 km 2 | |
| Residents | 781 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 199 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67170 | |
| INSEE code | 67250 | |
| Website | www.kriegsheim.fr | |
Kriegsheim is a French commune with 781 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin département in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It is located in the canton of Brumath in the Bas-Rhin department . On January 1, 2015, Kriegsheim moved from the Arrondissement Strasbourg-Campagne to the Arrondissement Haguenau-Wissembourg .
geography
Kriegsheim is located 20 kilometers north of Strasbourg and five kilometers southwest of Haguenau in the Collines de Brumath landscape on the edge of the Upper Rhine Plain . The Lohgraben , an 11 km long tributary of the Moder , rises in Kriegsheim.
Kriegsheim borders on Niederschaeffolsheim in the north, Weitbruch in the east, Brumath in the south and Rottelsheim in the west.
history
Merovingian grave finds show that the area was inhabited as early as the 5th to 8th centuries.
The village was first mentioned in 823 in an exchange between Count Erchangar and Bernold, Bishop of Strasbourg. In 953, the Lorsch monastery received goods in war home through an act by Emperor Otto I.
Kriegsheim was one of 28 villages whose property was divided between the diocese of Strasbourg and the Old Kingdom in 1236 .
After the accession of the Habsburgs in 1272 Kriegsheim was Reichsdorf and came to the bailiwick of Hagenau. The community belonged to the Batzendorf mayor's office until 1789 .
In 1460 half of the village fell to the Thomas Chapter of Strasbourg. In 1625 Georg Dietrich von Wangen received the other half until the French Revolution .
On November 21, 1959, War Home received Charles de Gaulle , the first President of the French Fifth Republic .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2013 |
| Residents | 316 | 330 | 331 | 362 | 405 | 615 | 710 | 706 |
Attractions
The Saint-Ulrich church is equipped with a modern organ from 1977/1978, which replaced an organ built by Martin Wetzel in 1861 . Only the original brochure is still preserved.
Infrastructure
Kriegsheim is accessed via the D263 department road. It connects Kriegsheim with Haguenau and the canton capital Brumath, where there is a connection to the A4 Autoroute , which coincides with the Europastraße 25 here .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , p. 279.
