Saulxures

Saulxures
region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Molsheim
Canton	Dirty
Community association	Vallée de la Bruche
Coordinates	48 ° 24 ' N , 7 ° 8' E Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ' N , 7 ° 8' E
height	420-812 m
surface	12.84 km 2
Residents	512 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	40 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	67420
INSEE code	67436
	; Saint-Michel church

Saulxures (German Salzern ) is a French commune with 512 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).

geography

Col du Hantz

The municipality is located in the Vosges near the Breusch River and is surrounded by forests. After the city of Strasbourg in the northeast, you drive around 60 kilometers. A road leads over the Col du Hantz into the Rabodeau valley in the Vosges department .

history

An early mention of the village comes from the 14th century. At that time it was owned by the Counts of Salm . When the property was divided, the estate was given to Jean IX in 1600 . awarded by Salm , who brought it to the Duchy of Lorraine when he married . In the course of the dwindling influence of the Dukes of Lorraine, the area fell back to the House of Salm in 1751 and was finally annexed by France in the course of the First Coalition War in 1793 and made the Canton de la Plaine , which no longer exists today . Under Napoléon , Saulxures became part of the Saales canton in 1801 . The municipality has belonged to the canton of Mutzig since 2015.

coat of arms

Description : Split in blue and red, in front a six-pointed silver star and behind two red-scaled silver fish with their backs turned to the front, accompanied by four common white crosses .

Population development

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2013
352	359	384	391	393	457	518	516

literature

Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1060-1061.

Web links

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