La Petite-Pierre
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Ingwiller | |
| Community association | Hanau-La Petite Pierre | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 52 ′ N , 7 ° 19 ′ E | |
| height | 215-397 m | |
| surface | 19.57 km 2 | |
| Residents | 618 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 32 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67290 | |
| INSEE code | 67371 | |
| Website | http://www.la-petite-pierre.com | |
 Mairie La Petite-Pierre |
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La Petite-Pierre ( German Lützelstein ) is a French commune with 618 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Northern Vosges Nature Park .
geography
Neighboring communities are in the northeast Zittersheim and Erckartswiller , in the east Weiterswiller , in the southeast Neuwiller-lès-Saverne , in the southwest Eschbourg , in the west Lohr and in the northwest Petersbach , Struth and Hinsbourg .
La-Petite-Pierre is about 15 kilometers north of Zabern and about 30 kilometers southwest of Bitche . The place Lützelstein emerged from a settlement surrounding Lützelstein Castle . The castle was very prominent at the end of a mountain spur that protruded far into the valley and thus guarded one of the most important passes of the Vosges , which connected Alsace with Lorraine .
history
Lützelstein Castle was built at the end of the 12th century by Count Hugo, a son of Count Hugo von Blieskastel . In 1223 the castle and the county of Lützelstein had to be given to the bishopric of Strasbourg as a fief . 1403 died out with Count Friedrich, the last Lützelsteiner from the main line, which led to protracted inheritance disputes between Friedrich's uncle Burkhard von Lützelstein and Friedrich's sister, who was married to Johannes von Leiningen. But since both Johann von Leiningen and Burkhard's sons died within a short time and without heirs, the entire county of Electoral Palatinate , whose fiefdom Johann had recognized, was withdrawn as a settled fief, so that from then on Lützelstein was under Electoral Palatinate administration.
In 1553 the inheritance and ownership relationships between the individual lines of the House of Wittelsbach were reorganized, with the result that the County of Lützelstein passed from Electoral Palatinate to Pfalz-Zweibrücken . Duke Wolfgang von Pfalz-Zweibrücken left Lützelstein in 1563/67 to his cousin Georg Johann I von Pfalz-Veldenz , whose line of town and county remained until the line Pfalz-Veldenz died out in 1694.
Duke Georg Johann von Pfalz-Veldenz resided at Lützelstein Castle and founded the city of Pfalzburg on the best Vosges pass, the Zaberner Steige , in 1570 . As early as 1583, the heavily indebted Georg Johann had to sell the Einarzhausen office with the new town of Pfalzburg to the Duchy of Lorraine , so that the county of Lützelstein lost almost half of its territory.
After Georg Johann's death in 1592, his widow Anna Maria of Sweden , a daughter of Gustav I Wasa of Sweden, was the first to rule. In 1598, their sons shared the rule in such a way that the older, Georg Gustav (1564–1634), received the Veldenzer shares and the younger, Johann August (1575–1611), received Lützelstein. Since Johann August and his brother and successor Georg Johann II died without heirs, all parts of the country fell to Georg Gustav's son, Leopold Ludwig von Pfalz-Veldenz-Lützelstein . Since he died without an heir, Lützelstein fell back to the main line Pfalz-Zweibrücken in 1694.
In 1680, King Louis XIV of France laid claim to Lützelstein as a French fief through his reunion chambers , which was confirmed by the Peace of Rijswijk in 1697. Although it remained nominally in the hands of the Zweibrücken as a French fief, the castle was expanded to a French fortress by the royal fortress builder Vauban . In 1801 Lützelstein came to the Bas-Rhin department of Alsace .
After 1815 the fortress was expanded again and housed a French garrison until 1870. In 1872 the fortress was closed and the facilities partially demolished.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 | 2014 |
| Residents | 624 | 637 | 632 | 675 | 623 | 612 | 605 | 629 | 633 |
religion
Even during the reign of Elector Friedrich II of the Palatinate , individual evangelical preachers are documented in Lützelstein, but an official introduction of the Reformation according to the Lutheran creed did not take place until 1558 under the supervision of the Strasbourg church president Johann Marbach . In 1559, Duke Wolfgang (as guardian of Georg Hans, who was still underage) introduced his own Lutheran church order in Lützelstein, which was reprinted again in 1605 with slight changes.
After 1680, the reunions again led to an official approval of Catholic parishes, whereby it was determined that in parishes with only one church this should be used by both denominations (so-called simultaneous church ).
Personalities
- Eduard Meyer (1874 – after 1918), notary born in Lützelstein and member of the Landtag of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 960-968.
