Rohrwiller

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Rohrwiller
Rohrwiller coat of arms
Rohrwiller (France)
Rohrwiller
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton Bischwiller
Community association Haguenau
Coordinates 48 ° 45 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 45 '  N , 7 ° 54'  E
height 122-127 m
surface 2.95 km 2
Residents 1,634 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 554 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67410
INSEE code
Website http://www.rohrwiller.fr/

Mairie Rohrwiller
St. Wendelin Church

Rohrwiller ( German : Rohrweiler , also Rothweiler ) is a French commune with 1634 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).

geography

With Rohrwiller the anger flows into the mold .

history

middle Ages

The Lichtenberg lordship bought the village of Rohrweiler in 1342 from the Counts of Ötingen . In the meantime pledged, the village was redeemed in 1401. When, after the acquisition of territory in the 14th century, the offices of Ingweiler and Buchsweiler in the Lichtenberg domain had become too extensive and had to be reorganized, the Pfaffenhofen office, among other things, was spun off and made independent at the beginning of the 15th century . When this also had to be divided again due to further area growth, the Offendorf office was established before 1440, to which Rohrweiler also belonged.

Elisabeth, one of the two heirlooms of Ludwig V von Lichtenberg (* 1417, † 1474), married Count Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Elisabeth, she inherited half of the Lichtenberg estate, to which the Offenheim office - and thus Rohrweiler - also belonged.

Early modern age

Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, left only one daughter each 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 lordship , which was not already in the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , and included the Offendorf office with Rohrweiler. Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), who was ruling at this time, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county and also in the areas gained through inheritance, which now became Lutheran .

With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Offendorf office came under French sovereignty. In the course of this process, the village received a Roman Catholic parish again.

After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, Hanau-Lichtenberg - and with it the Offendorf office - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) Of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval started by the French Revolution , Rohrweiler became French.

Population development

1798 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2013
430 1,040 1,092 1,140 1,287 1,441 1,448 1,672 1,708

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).
  • 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 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 163-164.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matt, p. 7.
  2. Eyer, p. 66.
  3. Eyer, p. 71.
  4. Eyer, p. 238.
  5. See Eyer, p. 98.
  6. Eyer, p. 239.
  7. Knöpp, p. 15.
  8. ^ Matt, p. 7.