Liebsdorf
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Altkirch | |
| Canton | Altkirch | |
| Community association | Sundgau | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 29 ′ N , 7 ° 14 ′ E | |
| height | 420-683 m | |
| surface | 4.22 km 2 | |
| Residents | 307 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 73 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68480 | |
| INSEE code | 68184 | |
| Website | http://liebsdorf.free.fr/ | |
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Liebsdorf is a French commune with 307 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Alsatian department of Haut-Rhin in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the canton of Altkirch and the municipal association Sundgau .
geography
Liebsdorf lies between the neighboring communities of Durlinsdorf in the northeast and Courtavon in the southwest, 14 kilometers northwest of the Swiss municipality of Delémont , at the foot of the Alsatian Jura in Sundgau . The Largue , a tributary of the Ill , forms the western boundary of the municipality. Liebsdorf borders the Swiss municipality of Bonfol with a tip in the northwest .
history
During excavations in 1878, an ax and several arrowheads from the Neolithic Age (5500 to 4500 BC) were found. In Gallo-Roman times , the village was on the Roman road from Besançon ( Vesontio ) to Basel ( Arialbinnum ). Roman coins were found at Liebenstein Castle . Therefore it is believed that the castle was built in place of a Roman fort .
The place name is derived from the Germanic name Leubo and means "Village of Leubo". Liebsdorf was first mentioned in 1179 as Lopestorff . The place name ending -dorf also indicates that the village was built between the 8th and 10th centuries in a cleared forest. Over the years the place name appeared under different spellings, Liebesdurf (1243), Liebesdorf (1314), Liebenstorf (1394), Liebstorff (1426), Lieboncourt and Lebeucourt (1740) and Liebsdorff (1803).
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Liebsdorf belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Altkirch district in the Upper Alsace district .
A parish in Liebsdorf was not established until 1870 when the Saint- Jean Gualbert church was built. During the Second World War (1939–1945) the pastorate of Liebsdorf offered General Henri Giraud refuge. Giraud fled the Königstein Fortress on April 17, 1942 . The pastor of Liebsdorf at the time, Joseph Stamm, enabled Giraud to escape to Switzerland. Stamm was arrested by the Gestapo on September 21, 1943 and killed in Wolfach on April 17, 1945 .
Population development
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 262 | 241 | 242 | 215 | 227 | 257 | 289 | 338 | 307 |
coat of arms
Until 1977 the municipal coat of arms showed a sheaf of wheat . In the new coat of arms, which depicts the Liebenstein castle ruins, the sheaf is in the upper right corner.
Attractions
The Liebenstein Castle was first mentioned 1218th The castle was built by order of the Count von Pfirt (older house), who left the building to the Liebenstein family as a fief . From 1271 it belonged to the bishops of Basel . In 1356 the castle was badly damaged by an earthquake . After a few years in the possession of the Morimont family , the lords of Pfirt (younger house, former main road) received the castle back and kept it until 1803. The lending to Ulrich von Pfirt was made by Katharina von Burgund, daughter of Duke Philip the Bold von Burgundy, who was married to Duke Leopold von Habsburg. In 1803 the castle was bought by the Rychen family, expelled Anabaptists from Switzerland. In 1840 they also created the small cemetery which is around 250 m west of the castle, as the Catholic Church did not allow " heretics " to be buried in the regular cemetery. The oldest tombstone still in existence dates from 1877. In 1886 the Liebenstein estate was sold to the Richard family.
A local legend says that the son of the Count von Pfirt was in love with a shepherdess. He wrote her a love poem on a stone that she always rested on. She then consented to a marriage. The count was convinced of her cooking skills. She fried him carp and for that he built the castle for both of them. Which was called "Liebenstein" because of the love between them and the stone with the poem. Fried carp, carpe frite , is a typical Sundgau dish.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 413-415.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ VR25 + VR3-Itinéraires Romains en France (French) Retrieved January 10, 2010
- ↑ a b Liebsdorf in the Base Mérimée (French) Retrieved on January 10, 2010
- ^ Ernest Nègre : Toponymie générale de la France . Volume 2: Formations non-romanes, formations dialectales (= Publications romanes et françaises. Vol. 194). 2nd day. Librairie Droz, Geneva 1996, ISBN 2-600-00133-6 , p. 807, in Google Books , accessed January 10, 2010, (French).
- ^ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Altkirch district
- ↑ Sources on Swiss History Volume 15-1, p. 590
- ↑ Archive Baptist congregation Basel Holee