Merkwiller-Pechelbronn
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region | Grand Est | |
Department | Bas-Rhin | |
Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
Canton | Reichshoffen | |
Community association | Sauer-Pechelbronn | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 50' E | |
height | 153-199 m | |
surface | 3.76 km 2 | |
Residents | 915 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 243 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 67250 | |
INSEE code | 67290 | |
Website | http://www.merkwiller-pechelbronn.com/ |
Merkwiller-Pechelbronn ( German Merkweiler-Pechelbronn ) is a French commune with 915 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the northern Vosges Mountains in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).
history
Pechelbronn was the first place in Europe where oil was extracted. The earth pitch spring , which is still active today , has been documented since 1498 and gave the place the name: " Pech well ". The petroleum from the Pechelbronn layers was initially used medicinally for skin diseases. Merchants, like caricatures , went through the villages with wheelbarrows on which a wooden barrel was attached and sold loose oil to the farmers, which they could use to lubricate their wagons.
Commercial use began in 1735 and ended in 1970. Generations of technicians visited the area to learn how to extract and refine oil. In 1927 the brothers Marcel and Conrad Schlumberger carried out the first electrical borehole surveying in Pechelbronn.
economy
ISRI France S.à.rl, a subsidiary of the German company Isringhausen , manufactures seating systems for commercial vehicles on site.
Culture
- Musée du pétrole , the oil museum shows the development of the oil industry in Alsace with many exhibits. A large model shows the operation of the "Rapid Impact Drilling Crane No. 7" by Anton Raky , which was first manufactured in neighboring Durrenbach in 1894/1895.
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1279-1282.
Web links
- Musée du pétrole, Merkwiller-Pechelbronn
- Homepage of the community
- Georg Etscheit: bad luck in the period from 1 July 2012, Nº 26/2012