Merkwiller-Pechelbronn

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Merkwiller-Pechelbronn
Merkwiller-Pechelbronn coat of arms
Merkwiller-Pechelbronn (France)
Merkwiller-Pechelbronn
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton Reichshoffen
Community association Sauer-Pechelbronn
Coordinates 48 ° 56 '  N , 7 ° 50'  E 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.

  • Church of Sainte-Barbe 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.

  • French Petroleum Museum

  • Petroleum pump at the entrance to Merkwiller-Pechelbronn

  • 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

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