Rittershoffen
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Wissembourg | |
| Community association | Outre-Forêt | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 54 ' N , 7 ° 57' E | |
| height | 120-179 m | |
| surface | 12.13 km 2 | |
| Residents | 911 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 75 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67690 | |
| INSEE code | 67404 | |
 Mairie Rittershoffen |
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Rittershoffen is a French commune with 911 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region ( Alsace until 2015 ).
history
middle Ages
The oldest surviving mention of the village of Rittershofen comes from 1227. It initially belonged to the Landgraviate of Alsace and was in the Hattgau . In 1332 the Lords of Lichtenberg bought it together with a number of other villages and rights. It was an imperial fief that they assigned to the Amt Hatten (also: Hattgau ). The office of Hatten was formed in the 14th century and was an office of the Lichtenberg rule , from 1480 the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , from which it was transferred to the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1736 .
Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), one of Ludwig V's two heirs, married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen (* 1417; † 1480) in 1458, who had a small secondary school from the County of Hanau had received in order to be able to marry her. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage. After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Count Jakob, one of Anna's uncle, Philip I d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. This also included the Office of Hatten and with it Rittershofen.
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 .
Due to the reunification policy of France, the parts of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Alsace fell under the sovereignty of France around 1680 , as did the Amt of Hatten and Rittershofen.
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. As a result of the French Revolution , the left bank of the Hanau-Lichtenberg county - and with it Rittershofen - fell to France. From 1871 until the end of the First World War , the municipality 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 .
The community became known through bitter fighting in January 1945, at the end of the Second World War ( Operation Nordwind ), during which it was largely destroyed.
The Rittershoffen geothermal cogeneration plant is planned for the community.
Population development
| 1798 | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
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| 1,000 | 857 | 827 | 854 | 834 | 817 | 825 | 897 | 931 | 911 |
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. 1285-1286.
