Thal-Marmoutier
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Saverne | |
| Community association | Pays de Saverne | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 42 ′ N , 7 ° 21 ′ E | |
| height | 203-332 m | |
| surface | 3.42 km 2 | |
| Residents | 777 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 227 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67440 | |
| INSEE code | 67489 | |
Thal-Marmoutier (German: Thal bei Maursmünster ) is a French commune with 777 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).
geography
The districts of Schwabenhof, Schebwiller ( Schwebweiler ) and Saint-Gall ( Sankt-Gallen ) belong to Thal-Marmoutier . The neighboring communities are Gottenhouse in the north, Marmoutier in the east, Haegen in the northwest and Reinhardsmunster in the south.
history
middle Ages
Thal near Maursmünster belonged to 3/8 of the Ochsenstein lordship . It was a fiefdom of the Bishop of Metz . When the family of the von Ochsenstein extinct in the male line with Georg von Ochsenstein 1485, the inheritance came through his sister to the counts of Zweibrücken-Bitsch .
Modern times
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought the Zweibrücken share in Thal near Maursmünster to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg : Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, left only one each Daughter as heiress. Count Jakob's daughter, Margarethe (* 1540; † 1569), was married to Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599). The inheritance resulting from this constellation also included the rule of Ochsenstein. In the administrative structure of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg, the 3/8 stake in Thal near Maursmünster was added to the Westhofen office .
With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Westhofen and Thal offices at Maursmünster came under French sovereignty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the Hereditary Prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt . The share in Thal bei Maursmünster no longer belonged to the Westhofen office in the Hesse-Darmstadt period.
Population development
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2005 | 2012 | 2017 |
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| 474 | 495 | 563 | 631 | 637 | 706 | 717 | 778 | 777 |
Attractions
- Church of St-Pierre et St-Paul with a choir tower from the 12th century.
literature
- Friedrich Knöpp: Territorial holdings of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg in Hesse-Darmstadt . [typewritten] Darmstadt 1962. [Available in the Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , signature: N 282/6].
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 685-687.
