Salenthal
| Salenthal | ||
|---|---|---|
|
|
|
| local community | Sommerau | |
| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 40 ′ N , 7 ° 22 ′ E | |
| Post Code | 67440 | |
| Former INSEE code | 67431 | |
| Incorporation | January 1, 2016 | |
| status | Commune déléguée | |
Salenthal ( German : Salental ) is a commune déléguée in the French commune of Sommerau with 216 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ) in France .
history
middle Ages
The oldest surviving mention of Salenthal comes from 1122 from a document from the Marmoutier monastery . Salenthal belonged to the Ochsenstein lordship . It was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Metz . When the family of the von Ochsenstein extinct in the male line with Georg von Ochsenstein 1485, the inheritance came through his sister to the counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch .
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought Salenthal 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 inheritance resulting from this constellation also included the rule of Ochsenstein. In the administrative structure of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg, Salenthal was added to the Westhofen office . 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 the reunion policy of France under King Louis XIV , the Westhofen and Salenthal offices came under French sovereignty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the Hereditary Prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt . Salenthal no longer belonged to the Westhofen office in the Hesse-Darmstadt period.
The Salenthal community was a member of the Communauté de communes de la Sommerau and was merged with Allenwiller , Birkenwald and Singrist to form the Commune nouvelle Sommerau on January 1, 2016 .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 113 | 123 | 123 | 121 | 140 | 165 | 214 | 216 |
Attractions
- The Saint-Maurice church dates from the 19th century; the tower choir from the 13th century.
literature
- 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].
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 680-681.
