Sparsbach
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Ingwiller | |
| Community association | Hanau-La Petite Pierre | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 53 ' N , 7 ° 25' E | |
| height | 197-387 m | |
| surface | 13.58 km 2 | |
| Residents | 240 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 18 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67340 | |
| INSEE code | 67475 | |
Sparsbach is a French commune with 240 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Saverne and the Canton of Ingwiller .
geography
The municipality of Sparsbach is located in the Vosges Mountains and is part of the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve . The Meisenbach flows through the community and flows into the Moder in the nearby Ingwiller .
Neighboring communities of Sparsbach are Wimmenau in the north, Weinbourg and Ingwiller in the east, Weiterswiller in the south, La Petite-Pierre in the southwest and Erckartswiller in the west.
history
middle Ages
As an allod , the village of Sparsbach initially belonged to the Buchsweiler office of the Lichtenberg lordship when it was formed in the 13th century. Due to the large increase in territory in the first half of the 14th century, the Buchsweiler office was divided around 1330 and the Ingweiler office spun off. Sparsbach was added to the Ingweiler office as part of the Ingweiler Büttelei . The reason for the new organization may have been the two divisions that took place in the Lichtenberg House around 1330 and in 1335. In 1335 the land was divided between the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg . Sparsbach fell to the descendants of Johann III, who died early . von Lichtenberg , who established the middle line of the house.
In 1480, Count Jakob, the last male member of the von Lichtenberg family, died, his inheritance and rule were divided. The Ingweiler office belonged to that part of the inheritance that fell to the County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch . These counted it to their rule Oberbronn .
Modern times
The rulership of Oberbonn - and with it Sparsbach - came from Zweibrücken-Bitsch to this family in 1551 as a dowry on the occasion of the marriage of Amelie von Zweibrücken-Bitsch with Philip I of Leiningen-Westerburg . At this point in time at the latest, Sparsbach finally left the sphere of influence of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg.
As a successor to the Leininger, the Landgraves of Hessen-Homburg and, to a lesser extent, the Swedish aristocratic family of the Barons von Sinclair became lords of Oberbronn in the 17th century. Due to France's reunion policy , the rule of Oberbronn and the village of Sparsbach also fell under French suzerainty in the second half of the 17th century. The Hesse-Homburg part passed to the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein family in the middle of the 18th century , while the Sinclair part went to the von Lewenhaupt family, who were also of Swedish origin . Hohenlohe had to cede the rule to France in 1793 and was later resigned to areas of the secularized diocese of Würzburg . In the administrative reforms following the French Revolution , the rule of Oberbronn was dissolved. Sparsbach was now French.
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Sparsbach belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Zabern district in the Lower Alsace district .
Population development
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 | 2014 |
| Residents | 287 | 153 | 156 | 164 | 157 | 152 | 191 | 251 | 261 | 252 |
economy
Forestry and fish farming are the local industries in Sparsbach. In terms of tourism, the gastronomic specialties trout and tarte flambée are advertised .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 980-982.
- Fritz Eyer: The territory of the Lords of Lichtenberg 1202-1480. Investigations into the property, the rule and the politics of domestic power of a noble family from the Upper Rhine . In: Writings of the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . 2nd edition, unchanged in the text, by an introduction extended reprint of the Strasbourg edition, Rhenus-Verlag, 1938. Volume 10 . Pfaehler, Bad Neustadt an der Saale 1985, ISBN 3-922923-31-3 (268 pages).
- Freddy Gutbub and Ernst Hallenberger: Rothbach - Histoire d'un village des Vosges du Nord / History of a village in the Northern Vosges . 1991. ISBN 2-9505842-0-9 ( bilingual : in French and German)
- Alfred Matt: Bailliages, prévôté et fiefs ayant fait partie de la Seigneurie de Lichtenberg, du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg, du Landgraviat de Hesse-Darmstadt . In: Société d'Histoire et d'Archaeologie de Saverne et Environs (Eds.): Cinquième centenaire de la création du Comté de Hanau-Lichtenberg 1480 - 1980 = Pays d'Alsace 111/112 (2, 3/1980), p 7-9.
- Peter Karl Weber: Lichtenberg. Alsatian domination on the way to becoming a territorial state. Social costs of political innovation . Heidelberg 1993.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eyer, pp. 51, 53.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 238.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 79.
- ↑ Brumm, p. 11.
- ^ Weber, p. 37, note 59.
- ^ Matt, p. 7.
- ↑ Waltz and Rudolph.
- ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 481: Keyword: Oberbronn (Herrschaft) .
- ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Zabern district