Preuschdorf
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Reichshoffen | |
| Community association | Sauer-Pechelbronn | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 57 ' N , 7 ° 48' E | |
| height | 157-446 m | |
| surface | 7.57 km 2 | |
| Residents | 891 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 118 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67250 | |
| INSEE code | 67379 | |
Preuschdorf is a French commune with 891 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). Preuschdorf is a member of the municipal association Communauté de communes Sauer-Pechelbronn .
geography
The municipality in the north of the Vosges has a share in the local nature park, the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve .
history
middle Ages
Preuschdorf was a fiefdom of the empire to the Lords of Lichtenberg . In 1332 they had partly bought it from those of Ötingen , the landgraves in Alsace, and in 1337 Johann Puller's share (1/3) in the village. In the lordship of Lichtenberg Preuschdorf was assigned to the Wörth office, which was created in the 13th century. When Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last male member of the house, died in 1480 , the inheritance was shared between his two nieces, Anna and Elisabeth. Anna had married Count Philipp IV of Hanau (1514–1590), Elisabeth von Lichtenberg (* 1444; † 1495) Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Wörth office - and thus Preuschdorf as well - came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch when it was divided.
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought the Wörth office to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg : Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, each left only one daughter as heir. Count Jakob's daughter, Margarethe (* 1540; † 1569), was married to Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599). The legacy resulting from this constellation also included the second half of the former Lichtenberg rule, which was not already governed by Hanau-Lichtenberg. Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg immediately carried out the Reformation in the inherited areas , which, like the rest of his dominion, now became Lutheran .
With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Wörth and Preuschdorf offices came under French suzerainty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance - and with it Preuschdorf - fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the hereditary prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval begun by the French Revolution , the Amt Wörth became part of France and dissolved in the subsequent administrative reforms.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 786 | 810 | 864 | 882 | 875 | 869 | 960 | 891 |
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).
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1652-1653.
