Schleithal
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Wissembourg | |
| Community association | Pays de Wissembourg | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 59 ′ N , 8 ° 3 ′ E | |
| height | 135-187 m | |
| surface | 9.12 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,428 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 157 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67160 | |
| INSEE code | 67451 | |
 Mairie Schleithal |
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Schleithal is a French commune with 1,428 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ) on the border with Germany . In the local Palatinate dialect, the place is called "Schladl". The inhabitants call themselves "Schleithalois". The Lauter flows next to the village . In addition to the main settlement, there are the outer quarters “Obere Ringgasse” and “Untere Ringgasse”. The immediate neighboring communities are Salmbach , Seebach and Wissembourg with the Altenstadt district .
Départementsstraße 244 passes Schleithal . In the north, along the Lauterburg-Weißenburg railway line , which is no longer in operation , there is a cycle path. Schleithal is a typical street village , which stretches almost four kilometers from northwest to southeast and itself advertises with the name Le Plus Long Village D'alsace (The longest village in Alsace).
history
An early mention of the settlement comes from the year 1145. There are speculations that the site was already settled in 631, when the Abbey of Weißenburg was founded.
The first church was built in the 13th or 14th century. It stood on the highest point of the district, but fell victim to a fire during a military invasion.
The place belonged to the old Principality of Speyer and in the French. During the revolution, the later cathedral capitular Franz Christoph Günther (1770–1848) worked there as pastor from the beginning of 1798 until his expulsion on August 20 of the same year . He was the son of the baroque sculptor Joachim Günther and the nephew of the famous baroque painter Matthäus Günther .
From 1871 to 1918, when the area belonged to the German Empire, Schleithal was subordinate to the canton of Lauterburg .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 1445 | 1459 | 1468 | 1389 | 1374 | 1395 | 1438 | 1428 |
See also
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1589-1591.
