Saint-Jean-Saverne
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Saverne | |
| Community association | Pays de Saverne | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 46 ' N , 7 ° 22' E | |
| height | 186-436 m | |
| surface | 6.39 km 2 | |
| Residents | 560 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 88 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67700 | |
| INSEE code | 67425 | |
| Website | http://www.stjsaverne.com/ | |
Saint-Jean-Saverne ( German Sankt Johann bei Zabern , in local dialect Sànt Johànn ) is a French commune with 560 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) at the foot of the Vosges in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).
Location description
The street settlement is closely connected to that of neighboring Eckartswiller . While the two villages are flanked by the mountain range in the northwest, there is largely an open forest in the southeast.
history
The history of the place is reflected in the history of the place name.
A deed of donation from 1126 names a place with an estate called Meginhelmeswilre ( Meyenheimsweiler ) - a presumably Merovingian or Carolingian foundation - which Count Peter von der Lützelburg (near Ottrott ) transferred to the St. Georgen Abbey in the Black Forest . In the same year St. Georgen founded a Benedictine monastery here called S. Iohannes prope oppidum Zabernia ( St. Johann near Zabern ). For the current place name, the monastery was used instead of the old field name.
In 1676 the place was affected by the Dutch War when the French troops of the Marshal of Luxembourg suffered a defeat against the troops of Charles V of Lorraine on the Champs de Choux in the Vosges, who were fighting on the side of the emperor during the battle for Philippsburg ; until 1870 the place was called St.-Jean-des-Choux in memory of the fallen soldiers .
The monastery was abolished in the French Revolution .
In the course of the eventful history of Alsace, the French and German place names, based on the monastery, alternated in the 19th and first half of the 20th century, and since 1945 only the French name has been used.
Saint-Jean-Saverne has increasingly opened up to tourism by signposting and documenting its cultural assets and expanding its network of hiking trails in the vicinity, without having to cope with an exorbitant stream of visitors.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2009 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 543 | 550 | 547 | 563 | 559 | 598 | 602 | 560 |
Architectural monuments
- The former Benedictine abbey church of St. Jean Baptiste is a three-aisled Romanesque basilica without a transept and with three apse ; Arched frieze and half-columns show varied mask and animal representations on consoles and capitals . The five massive groin vaults inside are among the earliest of their kind in Alsace. The westwork with tower and baroque dome was added in the 18th century; The furnishings (pulpit, high altar) come from the same period . The church treasure kept in the sacristy includes eight knitted carpets from the 16th century, presumably brought together from various local workshops, with biblical scenes ( Entombment of Christ , Judgment of Solomon , Mary in the Rose Hag ) and profane scenes (agriculture and hunting).
- The monastery church, monument historique since 1840 , is today the parish church of the place.
- A medieval chapel and hermitage, Nothing remains of their original buildings, on the mountain above the village was in 1593 by a local Michaels - Brotherhood populated and developed into a place of pilgrimage; after several restorations in 1686, 1848 and 1952 nothing remains of the older furnishings ; However, the mountain was named like its more famous namesake in Normandy , but without any connection with it, after the sanctuary of Mont Saint-Michel .
- The Mont Saint-Michel, already inhabited in Celtic and Roman times, called Hexenstein or Bruderstein in older medieval sources , is an elevation near Saint-Jean-Saverne with a height of 373 m. ü. The mountain is largely forested, and from the top of the mountain you have a view of the entire village with its abbey, the neighboring village of Eckartswiller and to the east into the wide plain of the Hanauer Land in the direction of the Rhine, in clear weather up to the Black Forest heights .
A natural monument is the Grotte aux Fées , a cave under an overhanging sandstone rock with an enigmatic recess in the stone floor, called a witch's hole , presumably a burial place.
The Mont Saint-Michel with its archaeological network of hiking trails to prehistoric and Roman sites is part of the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 11-1134.
- Jean-Joseph Ring: Les Hauteurs du Mont Saint-Michel. Saverne 2000.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saint-Jean-Saverne on the INSEE site ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
