Le Hohwald

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Le Hohwald
Coat of arms of Le Hohwald
Le Hohwald (France)
Le Hohwald
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein
Canton Obernai
Community association Pays de Barr
Coordinates 48 ° 24 '  N , 7 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 24 '  N , 7 ° 20'  E
height 450-1.091 m
surface 20.84 km 2
Residents 505 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 24 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67140
INSEE code
Website http://www.lehohwald.fr/

Mayor and school building

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Le Hohwald (German Hohwald ) is a French commune with 505 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein and the Canton of Obernai .

geography

Le Hohwald is located 13 kilometers southwest of Obernai and 37 kilometers southwest of Strasbourg in the Vosges Mountains . The Forêt de la Ville de Strasbourg dominates the northwest of the municipality . A 45 kilometer long river called Andlau passes the town center. About four kilometers west of the town center is the Champ du Feu mountain (1099 m), a hiking and skiing area that is well developed for tourists.

history

After the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), the then seigneur of the place let settlers from Switzerland into the place, who cleared the forests in order to create pastures there. The tithe was the half Archdiocese of Strasbourg and the Seigneur paid the resort. The place received the status of a municipality only in 1867, it was composed of areas of the communities Barr , Breitenbach and Albé . From 1871 until the end of the First World War , the municipality belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Schlettstadt district in the Lower Alsace district . From 1919 to 1941 the community belonged to France, from 1941 to 1945 to the German Gau Baden, from 1945 back to France.

Population development

year 1910 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2013
Residents 643 465 480 461 402 360 386 480 513

economy

Nine tenths of the area around the municipality are covered by forest. The forests around Le Hohwald are rich in game . The game population is regulated by an annual hunting plan . In 1856 the first restaurant was opened in what is now the municipality. It was visited by many tourists. Over the years, many celebrities spent the summer in the village, including Sarah Bernhardt (1844–1923), Benoît Constant Coquelin (1841–1909), Joseph Joffre (1852–1931), Konrad Adenauer (1876–1967) and Wilhelmina ( 1880–1962), Queen of the Netherlands. Even today tourism is an important branch of business for the Hohwaldois, other branches of business are pasture management, forestry , beekeeping and the breeding of domestic cattle.

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 69-70.

Web links

Commons : Le Hohwald  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Le Hohwald on annuaire-mairie.fr (French). Retrieved November 27, 2009.
  2. Le Hohwald on cassini.ehess.fr (French). Retrieved November 27, 2009.
  3. ↑ Register of municipalities in Germany 1900 - Schlettstadt district
  4. Annuaire des entreprises on lehohwald.fr in French.