Schirmeck
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Molsheim | |
| Canton | Dirty | |
| Community association | Vallée de la Bruche | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 29 ′ N , 7 ° 13 ′ E | |
| height | 289-840 m | |
| surface | 11.42 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,183 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 191 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67130 | |
| INSEE code | 67448 | |
| Website | www.ville-schirmeck.fr | |
 Town hall (Hôtel de ville) on the Bruche |
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Schirmeck is a French commune with 2,183 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region ( Alsace until 2015 ) and was the chief town (chief lieu) of the canton of the same name until 2015 and has been part of the canton of Mutzig since then . The villagers call themselves Schirmeckois .
geography
Schirmeck is in the Bruche Valley in the Vosges . The Framont flows into the Bruche in Schirmeck , which is formed in Grandfontaine from two source streams. Furthermore , the stream of the same name coming from Barembach flows into the Bruche in the locality .
The districts of Wackenbach and Tommelsbach belong to the community. The neighboring communities are Russ , Barembach , Rothau , La Broque , Grandfontaine and Wisches .
The transport connection is via the Strasbourg – Saint-Dié railway with the Schirmeck-La Broque station on the one hand and via the D 1420 Mutzig / Molsheim - Saales as well as a branch from it in Schirmeck in a north-west direction over the Vosges ridge.
history
The small town of Schirmeck and the castle of the same name above it once belonged to the Roman-German Empire before it was occupied by the French king's troops and France was annexed. Until the French Revolution it was an administrative center of the Bishop of Strasbourg. The Bas-Rhin department was formed in 1790 and Schirmeck was provisionally assigned to it. In 1795 it moved to the Vosges department . From 1871 Schirmeck and the canton of the same name belonged to the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . After the First World War , Alsace was annexed again by France and Schirmeck has since been part of the re-established Bas-Rhin department. From Schirmeck, the historical German-French language border turns to the northwest.
During the period between 1940 and 1944, Schirmeck actually belonged again to the German Reich and was merged with La Broque, Rothau and Barembach to form the large community of Schirmeck . On the outskirts of La Broque there was the Schirmeck-Vorbruck security camp set up by the National Socialists from August 1940 to November 1944 , which served the police authorities as an "education camp " in the course of the " Germanization " of Alsace. After the Second World War, Alsace came back to France and French replaced German as the sole official language.
The Mémorial de l'Alsace-Moselle (Alsace-Moselle Memorial) is dedicated to the history of Alsace in the area of tension between Germany and France. Since June 2005, written, image and sound documents covering the period between 1870 and the end of the Second World War have been shown on 3000 square meters. A memorial wall was to be built there by the end of 2017 [obsolete] on which more than 50,000 names of those who died in World War II were to be engraved. After criticizing the indiscriminate naming of perpetrators and victims, the concept is revised.
Schirmeck has belonged to the canton of Mutzig since 2015 .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 2246 | 2605 | 2628 | 2352 | 2167 | 2177 | 2425 | 2183 |
Attractions
- Schirmeck Castle (13th / 14th century, restored in the 20th century) with a local museum, a statue of the Madonna in the courtyard
- Synagogue , built 1908/09 ( Monument historique )
- Parish church of Saint-Georges with organ by Stiehr and Mockers (1859) and Rinckenbach (1912): After the fire on July 4, 1859, which damaged the church, the parish commissioned the organ building company Stiehr and Mockers to build a new organ, the 13,000 Francs cost. The old organ was traded in for 3,000 francs and sold to the church in Odratzheim . The new instrument was delivered in 1863. The organ builder Martin Rinckenbach restored the instrument in 1912 and installed a separate console . It was the first neo-Gothic prospectus from the Stiehr and Mockers company.
- Saint-Pierre-Fourrier Church in Wackenbach
- Fountain in memory of November 17, 1918, when French troops marched into Schirmeck
- Former town hall from 1864, on the market, today a club house
- Former prison (19th century), now a residential building (111 rue du Tribunal)
- Hôtel des Postes from 1898 (121 B, avenue de la Gare)
- Schirmeck-La Broque station (1881)
- Alsace-Moselle memorial in the north of the village
Saint-Georges church
Looking towards the choir
View towards the main entrance and organ gallery
Altar of Saint-Sébastien (19th to 20th centuries)
Wall painting "The life of St. Norbert" (17th to 18th century)
Saint-Pierre-Fourrier Church in Wackenbach
Museum in the restored castle walls
Alsace-Moselle Memorial
Synagogue from 1908/09, rue des Écoles
Old town hall from 1864, place du Marché
Old prison (19th century), 111 rue du Tribunal
Hôtel des Postes from 1898, 121 B, avenue de la Gare
Schirmeck-La Broque station (1881)
Fountain in memory of November 17, 1918
Small community park with a duck and swan pond
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Personalities
- Jean-Noël Wolf (* 1982 in Schirmeck), French road cyclist
- Joseph Schmidlin (1876–1944), Catholic theologian, died in the Schirmeck security camp
- Heinrich Brandt (1886–1970), German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and state superintendent of the Osnabrück-Diepholz district of the Hanoverian regional church, was ordained in 1916 in Schirmeck.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1190-1192.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Alsace-Moselle Memorial Schirmeck on Chemins de Mémoire
- ^ Bärbel Nückles: Southwest: Alsace: Planned memorial for the dead of World War II. Badische Zeitung , February 8, 2017, accessed on February 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Bärbel Nückles: Who was a victim, who was a perpetrator? Badische Zeitung, March 24, 2017, accessed on April 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Schirmeck on the INSEE website
- ↑ Info on the page www.culture.gouv.fr