Menchhoffen

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Menchhoffen
Menchhoffen coat of arms
Menchhoffen (France)
Menchhoffen
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Saverne
Canton Ingwiller
Community association Hanau-La Petite Pierre
Coordinates 48 ° 52 ′  N , 7 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′  N , 7 ° 30 ′  E
height 177-233 m
surface 4.27 km 2
Residents 613 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 144 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67340
INSEE code

Mairie Menchhoffen

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Menchhoffen (German Menchhofen ) is a French commune with 613 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).

geography

In the northeast, the village is touched by the Moder .

history

middle Ages

Menchhofen was a fiefdom from the Bishop of Metz to the Lords of Lichtenberg . They assigned it to their office in Buchsweiler , which arose at the beginning of the 14th century as an office of the Lichtenberg rule . Around 1330 there was a first division of land between Johann II. Von Lichtenberg , from the older line of the house, and Ludwig III. from Lichtenberg . Menchhofen fell into the part of the property that was managed by the older line in the future.

Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), daughter of Ludwig V. von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474), and one of two heirs with claims to the rule, married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen in 1458 (* 1417; † 1480). He had received a small secondary school from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to marry her. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. The other half went to his brother-in-law, Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Buchsweiler office - and with it Menchhofen - belonged to the part of Hanau-Lichtenberg that Anna's descendants inherited.

Modern times

Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), after taking office in 1538, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county, which now became Lutheran .

With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Buchsweiler office came under French sovereignty. One of the consequences of this was that the local church became a simultaneous church .

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, Hanau-Lichtenberg - and with it the Buchsweiler office - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval that began with the French Revolution , Menchhofen became French.

Population development

1798 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012 2014
291 429 447 445 460 506 505 510 579 582

Attractions

The simultaneous church was renovated in the 18th century by a foundation set up by the Roman Catholic director Galaizière and was given a baroque facade that was elaborately designed for regional standards .

literature

  • 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).
  • Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
  • 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.
  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 209-210.

Web links

Commons : Menchhoffen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Knöpp, p. 5; Eyer, pp. 52f, 160.
  2. Eyer, p. 238.
  3. Eyer, p. 78.
  4. Ellwardt, p. 44.
  5. ^ Matt, p. 7.
  6. Kathrin Ellwardt: Lutherans between France and the Empire: Church buildings in the Alsatian offices of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg under Johann Reinhard III. and Louis IX. In: Neues Magazin für Hanauische Geschichte 2016, pp. 18–59 (44).