Morsbronn-les-Bains
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Reichshoffen | |
| Community association | Sauer-Pechelbronn | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 54 ' N , 7 ° 45' E | |
| height | 160-237 m | |
| surface | 6.87 km 2 | |
| Residents | 695 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 101 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67360 | |
| INSEE code | 67303 | |
Morsbronn-les-Bains (formerly just Morsbronn , historically also: Morsfelt ) is a French commune with 695 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). Morsbronn-les-Bains is a member of the municipal association Communauté de communes Sauer-Pechelbronn .
geography
The village is located in the northern Vosges and partly in the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve .
history
middle Ages
Morsbronn was a fiefdom from the Bishop of Strasbourg to the Lords of Lichtenberg . The first lease took place in 1301. Morsbronn was part of a fiefdom, the center of which was Schöneck Castle . In the rule of Lichtenberg, Morsbronn was assigned to the Wörth office, which was established in the 13th century. In 1335 the land was divided between the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg . Morsbronn fell to the descendants of Johann III, who died early . von Lichtenberg , who established the middle line of the house.
When Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last male member of the house, died in 1480 , the inheritance was shared between his two nieces, Anna and Elisabeth. Anna had married Count Philipp IV of Hanau (1514–1590), Elisabeth von Lichtenberg (* 1444; † 1495) Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Wörth office - and thus also Morsbronn - came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch when it was divided.
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought the Wörth office to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg : Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, each left only one daughter as heir. Count Jakob's daughter, Margarethe (* 1540; † 1569), was married to Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599). The legacy resulting from this constellation also included the second half of the former Lichtenberg rule, which was not already governed by Hanau-Lichtenberg. Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg immediately carried out the Reformation in the inherited areas , which, like the rest of his dominion, now became Lutheran .
With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Wörth and Morsbronn offices came under French sovereignty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance - and with it Morsbronn - fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the hereditary prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval begun by the French Revolution , the Amt Wörth became part of France and dissolved in the subsequent administrative reforms.
Population development
| year | 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 375 | 511 | 814 | 541 | 540 | 585 | 522 | 576 | 695 |
Attractions
- Church of All Saints
see also: List of the Monuments historiques in Morsbronn-les-Bains
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).
- 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 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1648-1650.
