Niedersteinbach (Bas-Rhin)
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Reichshoffen | |
| Community association | Sauer-Pechelbronn | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 2 ' N , 7 ° 43' E | |
| height | 212-510 m | |
| surface | 8.30 km 2 | |
| Residents | 122 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 15 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67510 | |
| INSEE code | 67334 | |
 Mairie Niedersteinbach |
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Niedersteinbach is a French commune with 122 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the canton of Reichshoffen in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).
geography
Niedersteinbach is located in the valley of the Steinbach, a tributary of the Sauer , surrounded by the forests and sandstone cliffs of the Northern Vosges. Niedersteinbach is part of the Northern Vosges Nature Park .
Niedersteinbach also includes the hamlet of Wengelsbach , directly on the German border, which mainly consists of weekend houses.
history
Territorial history
Niedersteinbach came to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg around 1790 , which at that time belonged to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt and was assigned to the Wörth office there. With the upheaval begun by the French Revolution , the Amt Wörth became part of France and dissolved in the subsequent administrative reforms. With the collapse of Napoleonic rule, Niedersteinbach came back to the now Grand Duchy of Hesse (-Darmstadt) for a short time . With the demarcation of the Second Peace of Paris in 1815, it belonged again to the Palatinate part of the Wasgau and thus to the Rhine district in the Kingdom of Bavaria . France did not agree to the demarcation, as the connection between the French fortresses Bitsch and Weißenburg ( Wissembourg ) ran through Bavarian territory. In the border convention between Bavaria and France , Bavaria ceded Niedersteinbach and Obersteinbach to France in 1825 .
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Niedersteinbach belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Weißenburg district in the Lower Alsace district .
Population development
| year | 1798 | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 210 | 350 | 253 | 239 | 228 | 181 | 161 | 155 | 138 | 122 |
Leisure and Tourism
The Vosges Club has marked many hiking trails in the area, which also lead to numerous castle ruins and picturesque rocks. The gastronomy of Niedersteinbach, namely the hotel-restaurant Au Cheval Blanc , has a good reputation, as former Chancellor Helmut Kohl was seen here regularly. There was even a summit meeting with François Mitterrand in the town.
See also
literature
- Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
- 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. 1583-1584.
