Lingolsheim
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Strasbourg | |
| Canton | Lingolsheim | |
| Community association | Eurométropole de Strasbourg | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 33 ' N , 7 ° 41' E | |
| height | 139-150 m | |
| surface | 5.69 km 2 | |
| Residents | 18,324 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 3,220 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67380 | |
| INSEE code | 67267 | |
| Website | www.lingolsheim.fr | |
 Mairie (Town Hall) Lingolsheim |
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Lingolsheim is a French commune with 18,324 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Strasbourg metropolitan area .
geography
Lingolsheim is located six kilometers southwest of Strasbourg between the neighboring communities Eckbolsheim in the north and Ostwald in the southeast. The Bruche flows through the municipality.
history
During excavations in the municipal area, finds of artifacts from the Bandkeramischen culture of the early Neolithic (5,500-5,000 BC) were made. The Großgartacher culture left 42 graves from the Middle Neolithic (5,000–4,500 / 4,300 BC) and the Michelsberg culture (4,400–3,500 BC) left two graves, the latter being particularly interesting because a human skull was found in one of the graves on which trepanations had been carried out. There are only two such finds in Alsace. From the Late Bronze time a has been burial of the urnfield culture found (1300-800 v. Chr.) Comprising 21 graves and 60 polls.
A cemetery with eight graves from the Merovingian period (5th - 8th centuries) is located between Lingolsheim and Geispolsheim . The city was first mentioned as Lingolsvesheim in the 12th century. In the course of time it was called Lingolsvisheim and Lingolslzheim . It was not mentioned in a document with its current name until 1620. The place name originated from the Germanic name Lingolf and the Franconian place name ending " -heim ".
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Lingolsheim belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Erstein district in the Lower Alsace district .
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2013 |
| Residents | 2,298 | 7,738 | 8,287 | 10,479 | 14,688 | 16,480 | 16,860 | 16,954 | 17,450 |
Economy and Transport
In the years before the First World War, Lingolsheim was known as the “capital of leather” because Adler & Oppenheimer, one of the largest leather factories of the time, was located there. After the company was confiscated in 1919, the factory in Lingolsheim was sold to French investors. The company then operated as "Tanneries de France".
The Tiergaertel stop in Lingolsheim is one of the endpoints of line B of the Strasbourg tram . Several bus routes also connect the community with the neighboring city. Lingolsheim station is on the Strasbourg – Saint-Dié line .
The D392 runs through the municipality . The Strasbourg airport -Entzheim located about five kilometers away.
Culture and sights
Lingolsheim is represented with two flowers in the Conseil national des villes et villages fleuris (National Council of Flowered Cities and Villages). The "flowers" are awarded in the course of a regional competition, whereby a maximum of three flowers can be achieved.
The Catholic St. John's Church and the Protestant Church are protected architectural monuments as monuments historiques .
Tower of the Johanneskirche
Protestant Church
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 551-555.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lingolsheim on annuaire-mairie.fr (French) Retrieved January 8, 2010
- ^ Ernest Nègre: Toponymie générale de la France . tape 2 . Librairie Droz, 1996, ISBN 978-2-600-00133-5 , pp. 815 ( in Google Books [accessed January 8, 2009]). (French)
- ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Colmar district ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Bas-Rhin, Palmarès des communes labellisées ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) Retrieved January 8, 2010
