Lucelle (Haut-Rhin)

Lucelle
region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Altkirch
Canton	Altkirch
Community association	Sundgau
Coordinates	47 ° 25 ' N , 7 ° 15' E Coordinates: 47 ° 25 ' N , 7 ° 15' E
height	500-760 m
surface	10.27 km 2
Residents	34 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	3 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	68480
INSEE code	68190
	; Card of the two Lucelle

Lucelle ( German: Lützel ) with 34 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) is the smallest of the 377 municipalities in the Haut-Rhin department in the French region of Grand Est ( Alsace until 2015 ). The place is located in the canton of Altkirch in the Altkirch arrondissement . The community is a member of the Sundgau community association .

geography

Lucelle is the southernmost commune in the Haut-Rhin department. It lies directly on the border with the Swiss canton of Jura and its place Lucelle , which belongs to the municipality of Pleigne . The Lützel , which forms the border between France and Switzerland, rises at about 640 m altitude . Neighboring communities of Lucelle are Winkel in the north, Ligsdorf in the northeast, Kiffis in the east, Pleigne (CH) in the south and Oberlarg in the northwest.

history

The history of the place is closely linked to the history of the Cistercian monastery Lützel , which played an important role in the Middle Ages. This is also expressed in the municipal coat of arms, which shows a monastery church in a simplified form.

In 1801 the monastery buildings were sold to three blacksmiths. The church and other buildings were demolished, and an ironworks and foundry were built from their stones. The convent building (craftsmen and workers have lived in it since 1793), the cellar with ancillary building, a building complex consisting of the main building and two wing buildings (in which stables, haystack, mill, bakery, butcher's shop, tannery, workers 'and servants' apartments were housed) were not removed. and the guest house with its outbuildings. The orangery and gardens also remained intact. In 1824 the monastery buildings, the newly built factories and the ironworks of St-Pierre were sold to the Paravicini.

The municipality of Lucelle now became an important supplier of iron for French arms production. Its heavy industrial population was reflected in the number of inhabitants: around 1820 280 inhabitants, around 1835 320 inhabitants; three quarters of the population were artisans and workers. Around 1850 there was a blast furnace each in Lucelle and St-Pierre; the ores for this came from both sides of the border. After about 1860 there was a decline in industry. In 1883 the last remaining facilities were closed and later dismantled. The facilities of the L. Paravicini iron works (1817–1870), the " iron king of Lucelle", had to be sold in 1883 by Emanuel Leonhard Paravicini, the father of Mathilde Paravicini , to the company of the von Roll'schen iron works due to financial difficulties .

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Lucelle 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 .