Schlierbach (Haut-Rhin)
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Mulhouse | |
| Canton | Brunstatt | |
| Community association | Saint-Louis agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 41 ′ N , 7 ° 24 ′ E | |
| height | 244-346 m | |
| surface | 11.80 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,227 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 104 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68440 | |
| INSEE code | 68301 | |
 Schlierbach town hall |
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Schlierbach is a French commune with 1,227 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the arrondissement of Mulhouse , the canton of Brunstatt and the municipality of Saint-Louis Agglomération .
geography
The municipality of Schlierbach is located in the Sundgau , about ten kilometers south-southwest of Mulhouse . In the east it has a share of the flat Harthwald forest in the Rhine Valley ( Forêt de la Harth sud ). The municipal area covers 11.8 square kilometers. The highest point is 346 m above sea level , the lowest at 244 m.
Neighboring communities of Schlierbach are Dietwiller in the north, Kembs in the east, Geispitzen and Kœtzingue in the south, Steinbrunn-le-Bas in the southwest and Landser in the west.
history
The place was first mentioned as Slierbach in a document dated April 15, 877, which is kept in the St. Gallen monastery . Slier should mean swamp or mud . Schlierbach was not spared from the chaos of war, for example between 1445 and 1468 and in 1633 during the Thirty Years' War .
In 1648 it was stipulated in the Treaty of the Peace of Westphalia that the Sundgau , in which Schlierbach is also located, should become French. From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Schlierbach belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the district of Mulhouse in the district of Upper Alsace .
In 1940 the Schlierbachois and Schlierbachers felt the Second World War and had to be evacuated. They were housed in the municipality of Lauzun on the Garonne . After the liberation on November 20, 1944, the residents returned.
Population development
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 598 | 527 | 545 | 613 | 705 | 801 | 930 | 1053 | 1227 |
Attractions
An early church in Schlierbach was consecrated to Saint Leodegar , the parish belonged to Murbach Abbey and was administered from Lützel between 1443 and the French Revolution . The base of the church tower, newly built in 1576, formed the choir of the previous church from the 12th or 13th century. The nave was built in 1823. The main altar with two baroque statues of Saints Peter and Paul is adorned with a painting by François Joseph Bulffer (1787–1864) depicting Saint Leodegar. The Stiehr organ dates from 1863.
The rectory, built in 1724, was equipped with a cellar, in whose vaults the tithe was presumably stored.
The Forest Chapel of Our Lady in the Tears Valley ( Chapelle Notre-Dame de la Vallée des Larmes ) was built on the edge of the former road from Landser to Basel on the site of an abandoned brick factory, which was first mentioned in 1766. The chapel gradually fell into disrepair. In 1937 the statue of the Virgin Mary was transferred from the chapel to the Schlierbach church. The chapel, which became very dilapidated after the Second World War, was restored by Xavier Wintzer, a Schlierbach inmate who was forced into the building and who was a Gulag inmate. At that time he promised to erect a memorial in memory of the Alsatians who were forced to recruit. Every year on the first Sunday in May, the still living forced draftsmen meet here.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 1143-1145.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Register of municipalities in Germany 1900 - Mülhausen district
- ↑ freely based on the text of a public display board (bottom left in the picture), created by the Conseil Général de Haut-Rhin.