Offwiller
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Reichshoffen | |
| Community association | Pays de Niederbronn-les-Bains | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 55 ' N , 7 ° 33' E | |
| height | 182-421 m | |
| surface | 15.92 km 2 | |
| Residents | 796 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 50 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67340 | |
| INSEE code | 67358 | |
 Mairie Offwiller |
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Offwiller ( German : Off [en] Weiler ) is a French commune with 796 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ) and is a member of the Communauté de communes du Pays de Niederbronn -les-bains .
Geographical location
Offwiller is located in the Vosges and in the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve .
history
middle Ages
The village of Offenweiler was originally owned by the empire , then passed to the Duke of Lorraine and since 1399 belonged to the Bishop of Strasbourg . It was given as a fiefdom to the Lichtenberg lordship after they had bought this right from the Count of Lützelstein in 1456 . In the rule of Lichtenberg Offenweiler belonged to the office of Ingweiler .
In 1480, Count Jakob, the last male member of the von Lichtenberg family, died. The inheritance and rule were shared. The Ingweiler office belonged to the part of the inheritance that fell to Zweibrücken-Bitsch .
Modern times
However, there was another inheritance in 1570, when the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg took possession of the Ingweiler office. The Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg introduced the Reformation in their county from the middle of the 16th century , 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 Ingweiler 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 18th century, Offenweiler was removed from the Ingweiler office and incorporated into the Pfaffenhofen office of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg.
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 Offenweiler - fell to France.
Population development
| 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2005 | 2017 |
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| 743 | 900 | 933 | 926 | 897 | 882 | 852 | 826 | 796 |
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 888-890.
- 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).
- 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.
