Sarre Union
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Ingwiller | |
| Community association | Alsace Bossue | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 5' E | |
| height | 217-330 m | |
| surface | 15.39 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,823 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 183 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67260 | |
| INSEE code | 67434 | |
| Website | www.sarre-union.fr | |
 Hôtel de ville (town hall) |
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Sarre-Union (German Saarunion ) is a French commune in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). The place belongs to the arrondissement Saverne and the canton Ingwiller . Sarre-Union has 2823 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) on 15.39 km² and is the largest municipality in Crooked Alsace . The city was created in 1794 by the union of the two cities of Bockenheim (Alsatian Buckenum , Buggenum ) and Neu- Saar Werden (hence the name Union ).
location
Sarre-Union lies on the Saar , on the Berthelming – Sarreguemines railway line and on the A4 autoroute from Paris via Metz (approx. 80 km) to Strasbourg (approx. 60 km). Saarbrücken is about 35 kilometers away.
history
Sarre-Union was created in 1794 through the unification of the two towns of Bouquenom (on the right of the Saar; German Bockenheim) and Ville Neuve de Sarrewerden (on the left of the Saar; in German, Neu-Saar Werden). Between 1871 and 1918 it belonged to the defeat of France in the Franco-German War under the name Saarunion as part of the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine to the German Empire . In 1915 - at least the station name - was changed to Saar-Buckenheim. After the defeat of the Empire in World War I , Alsace-Lorraine was awarded to France in the Treaty of Versailles ; Saarunion was renamed Sarre-Union again. During the Second World War , Sarre-Union was administered by Germany again when it was occupied by troops of the Wehrmacht of the now National Socialist German Reich and they took control of the place - now renamed Saar-Buckenheim - and the rest of Alsace-Lorraine, too if the area has not been annexed de jure ; this did not happen until the end of the war. In 1944 the place fell back to France and Saar-Buckenheim was renamed Sarre-Union again.
On February 15, 2015, the location hit international headlines after hundreds of graves in the Jewish cemetery were damaged in an act of vandalism and smeared with Nazi symbols.
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 2645 | 2965 | 3130 | 3169 | 3159 | 3356 | 3185 | 2823 |
Attractions
- The town hall ( Hôtel de Ville ) from 1684, restored in 1773, is registered as a monument historique .
- Regional Museum of Crooked Alsace (Musée régional de l'Alsace Bossue)
- Lutheran church in the district of Ville Neuve from the 18th century
- (former) Reformed Church, built in 1751 as a transverse church
- Catholic chapel Saint-Louis of the former Jesuit monastery from the 15th century in the old town (expanded / rebuilt in the 16th and 18th centuries)
- The restored synagogue of the Jewish community from 1840 is part of the architectural heritage of France
- The Jewish cemetery dates back to the 18th century and was once one of the largest in Alsace. The cemetery has recently been desecrated several times, for example in 1988, 2000 and 2001. In February 2015, over 200 gravestones were knocked over and some of them were destroyed. For this reason, President François Hollande visited the cemetery on February 17, 2015.
- Catholic church Saint-Georges in the old town Bouquenom with an organ by Delorme (student of Silbermann ) restored by JG Koenig
Personalities
- Johann Martersteck (1691–1764), sculptor and wood carver
- Virgile Schneider (1779–1847), General, Minister of War 1839–1840; born in Sarre-Union
- Théodore Karcher (1821–1885), journalist; born in Sarre-Union
- Laurent Meyer (1870-1945), German politician (SPD)
- Georges Imbert (1884–1950), inventor of a wood gasifier; died in Sarre-Union
- Josef Grabler (1899–1941), German author and war correspondent
literature
- Joseph Levy: History of the City of Saarunion from its inception to the present . Vorbruck-Schirmeck 1898, archive.org
- Bockenheim in the Topographia Palatinatus Rheni ( Matthäus Merian ) Wikisource
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1086-1092.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of October 30, 1915, No. 54. Announcement No. 721, p. 350f.
- ^ French Jewish graves vandalized in Sarre-Union. BBC News, February 15, 2015, accessed March 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Kathrin Ellwardt: Church building between evangelical ideals and absolutist rule. The cross churches in the Hessian area from the Reformation century to the Seven Years War . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2004, ISBN 3-937251-34-0
- ↑ judaisme.sdv.fr February 16, 2015
- ↑ a b dna.fr February 16, 2015
- ↑ lemonde.fr February 16, 2015
- ↑ judaisme.sdv.fr February 16, 2015
- ↑ lalsace.fr February 16, 2015