Lixhausen
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Bouxwiller | |
| Community association | Pays de la Zorn | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 48 ' N , 7 ° 33' E | |
| height | 167-248 m | |
| surface | 3.29 km 2 | |
| Residents | 380 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 116 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67270 | |
| INSEE code | 67270 | |
 Saint-Nabor church |
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Lixhausen is a French commune with 380 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). On January 1, 2015, the municipality moved from the Arrondissement Strasbourg-Campagne to the Arrondissement Saverne .
geography
Lixhausen is located in the Pays de la Zorn (area of the anger ), 28 kilometers northwest of Strasbourg , 18 kilometers southwest of Haguenau and 15 kilometers northeast of Saverne . Neighboring communities of Lixhausen are Issenhausen in the northwest, Ringendorf in the northeast, Bossendorf in the south and Wickersheim-Wilshausen in the southwest. The municipality covers 329 hectares, the mean height is 208 meters above sea level , the Mairie stands at an altitude of 172 meters. The Bachgraben flows through the municipality.
Lixhausen is assigned to a type Cfb (according to Köppen and Geiger ) climate zone : warm, moderate rainy climate (C), fully humid (f), warmest month below 22 ° C, at least four months above 10 ° C (b). There is a maritime climate with a moderate summer.
history
The place name is probably composed of the Old High German name Liutold and the local ending "-hausen", which is derived from the Old High German hus . Hus means house, -hausen means settlement. The place name means "settlement of Liutold". Places with the ending -hausen are typical for the founding of settlements by the Merovingians (5th – 8th centuries), but were also founded in the Carolingian period (8th – 10th centuries).
The village belonged to the Weißenburg monastery . Afterwards it belonged to the Reichslandvogtei von Haguenau , which led to Lixhausen being confirmed as an imperial village in the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 . The parish belonged to Bossendorf until the 19th century . In the Ancien Régime half of the tithe was paid to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg and the other half to the Diocese of Speyer .
Population development
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 | 2014 |
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| 225 | 240 | 262 | 238 | 246 | 260 | 323 | 352 | 364 |
politics
Lixhausen is part of the Pays de la Zorn municipal association . The coat of arms of the community represents the patron saint Nabor († around 304), who holds a silver sword.
economy
Important occupations of the Lixhausenois (residents) are agriculture , feed production , viticulture and the breeding of domestic cattle.
Attractions
- Church of St-Nabor with late medieval choir tower and Merckel organ from 1735 ( Monument historique )
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 516-517.
Web links
- Lixhausen at the CC Pays de la Zorn (French)
- Lixhausen on cartesfrance.fr in French
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2014/12/29/2014-1722/jo/texte
- ↑ Le village de Lixhausen. In: Annuaire-Mairie.fr. Retrieved September 24, 2012 (French).
- ↑ Johannes Hoops: Reallexikon der Germanic antiquity . tape 22 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-11-017351-2 , p. 267-271 .
- ↑ http://www.quid.fr/communes.html?mode=detail&id=247&req=Lix&style=fiche Lixhausen on quid.fr (French) Retrieved on November 27, 2009, no longer available since March 25, 2010.