Langensoultzbach
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Reichshoffen | |
| Community association | Sauer-Pechelbronn | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 58 ' N , 7 ° 44' E | |
| height | 177-411 m | |
| surface | 13.09 km 2 | |
| Residents | 936 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 72 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67360 | |
| INSEE code | 67259 | |
Langensoultzbach (German Langensulzbach ; Alsatian: Làngesulzbàch) is a French commune with 936 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). Langensoultzbach is a member of the Sauer-Pechelbronn community association .
geography
The municipality is located in the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve in the north of the Vosges .
history
middle Ages
Langensulzbach was a fief of the Bishop of Strasbourg to the Lords of Lichtenberg . They had bought half of it in 1437 from Johann Eberhart von Lampertheim, the second half in 1474 from Paul von Winstein. In the rule of Lichtenberg, Langensulzbach was assigned to the Wörth office, which was created in the 13th century. When Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last male member of the house, died in 1480 , the inheritance was shared between his two nieces, Anna and Elisabeth. Anna had married Count Philipp IV of Hanau (1514–1590), Elisabeth von Lichtenberg (* 1444; † 1495) Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Wörth office - and with it Langensulzbach too - came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch when it was divided.
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought the Wörth office to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg : Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, each left only one daughter as heir. Count Jakob's daughter, Margarethe (* 1540; † 1569), was married to Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599). The legacy resulting from this constellation also included the second half of the former Lichtenberg rule, which was not already governed by Hanau-Lichtenberg. Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg immediately carried out the Reformation in the inherited areas , which, like the rest of his dominion, now became Lutheran .
With the reunification policy of France under King Louis XIV , the Amt of Wörth and Langensulzbach came under French suzerainty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance - and with it Langensulzbach - fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the Hereditary Prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval begun by the French Revolution , the Amt Wörth became part of France and dissolved in the subsequent administrative reforms.
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Langensoultzbach belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Weißenburg district in the Lower Alsace district .
Population development
| year | 1798 | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 255 | 680 | 692 | 707 | 686 | 765 | 850 | 901 | 961 | 936 |
Attractions
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 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1645-1646.
Web links
Remarks
- ^ At Matt, p. 7: "Niederlangensoultzbach".