Melch
| Melch | ||
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| local community | Reipertswiller | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 58 ' N , 7 ° 27' E | |
| Post Code | 67370 | |
Melch is a district of Reipertswiller in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region in France .
geography
Melch is located in the middle of an extensive forest area ( Forêt Domaniale d'Ingwiller ) on the ridge of the northern Vosges , which here only reaches 396 m above sea level.
history
middle Ages
The village of Melch belonged to the Lichtenberg rule before 1378 . There it was formally assigned to the Ingweiler office. But since it was given as a fief by the Lichtenbergers to the von Bütlenheim (also: Bietlenheim, Büttenheim), it was outside the administration of the Ingweiler office.
After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Count Jakob, in 1480, the rule was divided, the office of Ingweiler and the feudal rule over Melch initially fell to Zweibrücken-Bitsch .
Modern times
However, there was another inheritance in 1570, which brought the office of Ingweiler and the feudal lordship over Melch to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg .
As a result of France's reunification policy , around 1680 , the parts of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Alsace fell under French sovereignty , including the Ingweiler and Melch offices.
1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there. As a result of the French Revolution , the left bank of the Hanau-Lichtenberg county - and thus Melch - fell to France. In 1798 the village had 64 inhabitants.
Today Melch is a district of Reipertswiller.
literature
- Jean-Claude Brumm: Quelques dates importantes dans l'histoire… . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 10f.
- Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
- Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.