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Coat of arms of Niedermodern
Niedermodern (France)
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region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton Reichshoffen
Community association Haguenau
Coordinates 48 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 38'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '  N , 7 ° 38'  E
height 157-262 m
surface 4.39 km 2
Residents 913 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 208 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67350
INSEE code
Main street with church
Half-timbered house
Half-timbered houses

Niedermodern is a French commune with 913 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).

geography

Niedermodern is located on the Moder immediately east of Pfaffenhoffen .

history

middle Ages

In the 13th century, the village of Niedermodern was temporarily a condominium between the Lords of Ochsenstein and the Lords of Lichtenberg . The village then belonged to the Lichtenberg rule since the 13th century, but maybe not until 1453 . At the same time, Niedermodern formed its own bailiff. A "Büttelei" was the subdivision of an office . In 1335 the land was divided between the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg . Niedermodern fell to Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , who founded the younger line of the house. This was the reason for a new internal organization of the Lichtenberg rule: Among other things, the Pfaffenhofen office was spun off and made independent from the Ingweiler and Buchsweiler offices , to which Niedermodern also belonged.

Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), one of the two heirlooms of Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474) married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417; † 1480), one of them had received a small secondary school from the inventory of the County of Hanau in order to be able to get married. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule . The Pfaffenhofen office with Niedermodern also belonged to this half.

Modern times

Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), after taking office in 1538, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county, which now became Lutheran .

As a result of France's reunion policy in 1680, considerable parts of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Alsace fell under the sovereignty of France . This also included the Pfaffenhofen Office.

1736 died with Count Johann Reinhard III. the last male representative of the Hanau family. Due to the marriage of his only daughter, Charlotte (* 1700; † 1726), with the Hereditary Prince Ludwig (VIII.) (* 1691; † 1768) of Hesse-Darmstadt , the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg fell there. In the course of the French Revolution , the part of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg on the left bank of the Rhine - and with it the Office of Pfaffenhofen and Niedermodern - fell to France.

On January 1, 2015, Niedermodern moved from the Arrondissement Saverne to the Arrondissement Haguenau-Wissembourg .

Population development

1798 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2004 2017
291 507 523 622 626 573 691 724 913

See also

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. 1244-1245.

Web links

Commons : Niedermodern  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Eyer, p. 57.
  2. Eyer, p. 57.
  3. Eyer, p. 74.
  4. Eyer, p. 240.
  5. Eyer, pp. 79f.
  6. Eyer, p. 238.
  7. http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2014/12/29/2014-1722/jo/texte
  8. ^ Matt, p. 7.