Menchhoffen
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region | Grand Est | |
Department | Bas-Rhin | |
Arrondissement | Saverne | |
Canton | Ingwiller | |
Community association | Hanau-La Petite Pierre | |
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 | 67289 | |
Mairie Menchhoffen |
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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Knöpp, p. 5; Eyer, pp. 52f, 160.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 238.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 78.
- ↑ Ellwardt, p. 44.
- ^ Matt, p. 7.
- ↑ 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).