Rouffach
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Thann-Guebwiller | |
| Canton | Wintzenheim | |
| Community association | Pays de Rouffach, Vignobles et Châteaux | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 57 ' N , 7 ° 18' E | |
| height | 195-980 m | |
| surface | 40.05 km 2 | |
| Residents | 4,518 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 113 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68250 | |
| INSEE code | 68287 | |
| Website | http://www.ville-rouffach.fr/ | |
 Town Hall ( Hôtel de ville ) |
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Rouffach (German and Alsatian : Rufach ) is a French commune with 4518 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region ( Alsace until 2015 ). The place belongs to the Arrondissement Thann-Guebwiller and the canton Wintzenheim and is the seat of the community association Pays de Rouffach, Vignobles et Châteaux .
Rouffach is on the Alsatian Wine Route . Every year an eco and organic fair takes place in the city, which is mainly about bread, wine and cheese.
geography
Rouffach is located on the river Lauch , 15 kilometers south of Colmar and 28 kilometers north of Mulhouse , on the vineyards of the eastern foothills of the Vosges . The most important inter-regional traffic routes are the N83 ( Lyon - Strasbourg ) and the Strasbourg-Basel railway line .
etymology
Rouffach is already in 662 as Rubiaco and a 12th-century Rubiacum mentioned. This name is also similar to the ancient forms of Robiac ( Robiaco 1119), Royat ( Rubiacum 1147).
It consists of two elements: the Gallo-Roman personal name Rubius or Rubbius and the Celtic suffix -āko > -ACU "property".
history
In the 5th century the city became a residence of the Merovingian kings. Legend has it that in the 7th century the son of King Dagobert II handed over the city to the Bishop of Strasbourg after he was said to have resurrected him from death. It eventually became the capital of an episcopal fief , to which Eguisheim also belonged. The city developed rapidly and was walled over.
In the 15th century, a pilgrimage resulted in the St. Valentin Hospital to care for people suffering from seizures.
The golden age ended abruptly with the Thirty Years War when the place was ravaged by the Swedes. At the end of the war and with the conquest of Alsace by France , the fiefdom was abolished. The city regained prosperity, mainly through viticulture and because it was spared during the wars that followed.
During the period of National Socialism, a National Political Education Institute (NPEA - popularly Napola ) was housed in a former nursing home in the city (from October 1940). In the mental hospital Rufach a "Reich School of Folk German" was founded, a boarding school , were taught in the 1940-1944 approximately 600-650 boys from South Tyrol whose parents opted for Germany had. (A corresponding school for girls existed in Achern ). In fascist Italy, teaching in German was forbidden under strict penalties, and so in order to learn to write their own mother tongue correctly, these young people had to attend school far from their parents' home. This imperial school for ethnic Germans then existed parallel to the Napola and separated from it spatially and in terms of the teaching program, until the events of the war gradually led to its dissolution.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | |
| Residents | 4781 | 5053 | 4768 | 4615 | 4303 | 4187 | 4664 | 4518 |
Attractions
- Rouffach is a stop on the Romanesque Road : the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption church, made of yellow sandstone, is built in Romanesque and Gothic styles; the transept dates from the 2nd half of the 11th century, the Gothic central nave from the 12th and 13th centuries with Romanesque side portals; the building was built until 1508, the double tower facade remained unfinished. The building was badly damaged during the French Revolution and appears relatively unadorned today. The large volume of the church and the presence of several medieval architectural styles appear all the more obvious to the observer. ( Monument historique since 1841)
- Synagogue , built around 1290 (Monument historique since 1921)
- The Franciscan church ( Kloster Rouffach ) was built at the end of the 15th century.
- Numerous buildings from the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Old Town Hall, Old Kornhaus) still give the city a medieval character.
- The Witches Tower from the 13th to 15th centuries served as a prison. (Monument historique since 1921)
- The Isenbourg Castle, the residence of King Dagobert II and his son Sigbert, and later also the Bishop of Strasbourg, is no longer preserved. A luxury hotel is now housed in a new building from the 19th century.
- High School for Technology, Agriculture and Viticulture (LEGTAV)
- Mount of Olives Chapel
Hexenturm with stork's nest
South-east side of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption
Facade and north side of Notre-Dame de l'Assomption
Mount of Olives Chapel
Town twinning
Rouffach has had a partnership with the German city of Bönnigheim in the Ludwigsburg district of Baden-Württemberg since 1964 .
schools
- Agricultural school (Lycée agricole)
- EPLEFPA (Etablissement Public Local d'Enseignement et de Formation Professionnelle Agricole Rouffach-Wintzenheim)
Personalities (born in Rouffach)
- Konrad Pelikan (1478–1556), reformer and theologian
- Valentin Boltz (1515–1560), theologian and writer
- Conrad Lycosthenes (1518–1561), humanist and encyclopaedist
- François-Joseph Lefebvre (1755-1820), French revolutionary general and Marshal of France
- the Callinet family of organ builders
Other personalities
- Sebastian Münster , humanist , was a student of Konrad Pelikan in Rouffach from 1509 to 1511
- Johannes Remus Quietanus (1588–1654), doctor and astronomer
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 1015-1027.
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Dauzat et Charles Rostaing, Dictionnaire étymologique des noms de lieux en France , éditions Larousse 1968. p. 569.
- ^ Karl Sudhoff : A late medieval epileptic home (isolation and nursing hospital for epileptics) in Rufach in Upper Alsace. In: Archive for the History of Medicine 6, 1913, pp. 449–455
- ↑ Michael Wedekind: National Socialist Occupation and Annexation Policy in Northern Italy 1943 to 1945: the operational zones “Alpine Foreland” and “Adriatic Coastal Land”. Munich 2003 (Oldenbourg), p. 240; [1]
- ^ Theobald Walter: The Minorite Monastery at St. Katharina in Rufach. In: Alemannia , (Volume 34 =) New Series, Volume 7, 1906-1907, pp. 14-65.
- ↑ Tourisme-Alsace: Recollets-Kirche ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
