Niederentzen

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Niederentzen
Coat of arms of Niederentzen
Niederentzen (France)
Niederentzen
region Grand Est
Department Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement Thann-Guebwiller
Canton Ensisheim
Community association Center du Haut-Rhin
Coordinates 47 ° 57 '  N , 7 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 47 ° 57 '  N , 7 ° 23'  E
height 201-209 m
surface 8.81 km 2
Residents 715 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 81 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 68127
INSEE code 68234

Town hall and school building

Niederentzen (German Niederenzen ) is a French commune with 715 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Thann-Guebwiller and the canton of Ensisheim .

geography

The municipality of Niederentzen is located on the Ill , about 15 kilometers south of Colmar . In the west, the municipality extends to the Alte Thur , in the south the built-up area merges seamlessly into the municipality of Oberentzen .

history

Around 1276 the place was called Nidern Enszheim ( Nieder-Ensisheim ). The settlement was subordinate to the Murbach Abbey in the 13th century .

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Niederentzen belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Gebweiler district in the Upper Alsace district .

Population development

year 1910 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007 2013 2017
Residents 249 207 226 263 312 320 322 363 594 715

Attractions

The choir of the parish church of St. Agathe dates from the 15th century, the nave from the early 18th century. The octagonal bell tower was built in 1828. In 1859 further alterations and extensions followed, in 1940 the ceiling paintings were renewed and in 1967 the church was completely renovated. The church was classified as a monument historique in 1995 .

  • St. Agathe Church
  • Interior of the church

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 368-370.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Gebweiler district
  2. ↑ Entry no. PA00135158 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

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