Oberbronn

Oberbronn
region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Reichshoffen
Community association	Pays de Niederbronn-les-Bains
Coordinates	48 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 36' E Coordinates: 48 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 36' E
height	177-537 m
surface	21.15 km 2
Residents	1,570 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	74 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	67110
INSEE code	67340
	; View of Oberbronn

Oberbronn is a French wine-growing village and a municipality with 1570 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).

geography

The community has an area of 21.15 km² and is at an average altitude of 260 m above sea level. The formerly independent village of Breitenwasen is now part of Oberbronn. The place is located in the Northern Vosges Nature Park near Niederbronn-les-Bains .

history

The village of Oberbronn belonged to the lordship of Oberbronn and was their eponymous capital. The rule is proven from the 13th century and belonged one after the other to a number of noble families. These were initially the Lords of Ochsenstein , who were inherited by the Counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch in 1485 . From these, the rule of Oberbonn - and with it the village - came to his family in 1551 as a dowry on the occasion of the marriage of Amelie von Zweibrücken-Bitsch to Philip I of Leiningen-Westerburg . The Lords of Lichtenberg and, in their successor, the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg also had extensive rights and possessions in Oberbronn. As a successor to the Leininger, the Landgraves of Hessen-Homburg and, to a lesser extent, the Swedish aristocratic family of the Barons von Sinclair became lords of Oberbronn in the 17th century. Due to France's reunification policy , Oberbronn also fell under French sovereignty in the second half of the 17th century. The Hesse-Homburg part passed to the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein family in the middle of the 18th century , the Sinclair part to the von Lewenhaupt family, who were also of Swedish descent . Hohenlohe had to cede the rule to France in 1793 and was later resigned to areas of the secularized diocese of Würzburg . In the administrative reforms following the French Revolution , the rule of Oberbronn was dissolved. Oberbronn was French now.

Population development

year	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2017
Residents	1342	1355	2296	2193	2075	1424	1506	1570
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Culture and sights

In the old town of the place you can find several typical Alsatian buildings. Particularly noteworthy are:

Maison du Bailli , built in 1568, former pillory
Mairie (town hall in neoclassical style from 1846, with colonnades)
Roman Catholic Church with paintings by Louis Wagner
Evangelical church in Gothic style from the 15th and 16th centuries, built in 1505
Jewish cemetery from the 17th century

There is a signposted historical walking tour of the village. From an observation tower on the Wasenkoepfel (526 m) you can overlook the Upper Rhine Plain. A specialty of the village is the dish black pudding with chestnuts , as the chestnut forests around Oberbronn on the slopes of the Vosges provide one of the ingredients.

Personalities

Johannes Michel (1863 – after 1918), notary in Oberbronn and member of the state parliament

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).
Peter Karl Weber: Lichtenberg. Alsatian domination on the way to becoming a territorial state. Social costs of political innovation . Heidelberg 1993.
Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 886-887.

Web links

Commons : Oberbronn - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Waltz and Rudolph Private website on the history of Oberbronn

Individual evidence

^ Weber, p. 37, note 59.
↑ Waltz and Rudolph.
↑ Oberbronn (rule). In: Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 481.

[1] Weber, p. 37, note 59.

[2] Waltz and Rudolph.

[3] Oberbronn (rule). In: Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 481.