Mortzwiller
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| local community | Le Haut Soultzbach | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Thann-Guebwiller | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 44 ' N , 7 ° 2' E | |
| Post Code | 68780 | |
| Former INSEE code | 68219 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2016 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
 former town hall and school building |
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Mortzwiller (German Morzweiler ) is a former French commune with 360 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region . It belonged to the Arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller and the Canton of Masevaux .
With effect from January 1, 2016, the former municipalities of Soppe-le-Haut and Mortzwiller were merged into a commune nouvelle called Le Haut Soultzbach .
geography
Mortzwiller is located around 20 kilometers west of Mulhouse and northeast of Belfort im Sundgau on the east side of a wooded ridge of the Vosges , which largely coincides with the political border between the Grand Est and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regions and also with the traditional language border .
The street village is located in the Soultzbach valley and is surrounded to the north, west and south by the Forêt domaniale de Masevaux state forest. On the southern edge of the village is the Étang du Vieux Moulin , a pond privately owned by an anglers' association.
history
The history of the village is closely linked to that of the Soultzbach valley . It was ravaged by the plague in 1234 , destroyed by English troops in 1376 and by the Armagnacs in 1444 .
The name possibly goes back to the first name Moritz and is documented in the verdict of a knight in 1455 , when the village already formed a community with the immediately neighboring Soppe-le-Haut.
As part of the Thann rule , the village had belonged to the Habsburgs from 1324 through the marriage of Johanna von Pfirt and came to France in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia .
Jean Baptiste Joseph Gobel owned a small castle in Mortzwiller in the 18th century .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 |
| Residents | 92 | 126 | 134 | 170 | 194 | 252 | 310 |
Infrastructure
Mortzwiller is accessed through the D14b département road. The nearest motorway is the Autoroute A36 with connections in the direction of Mulhouse and Belfort.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , p. 736.
