Traenheim

Traenheim
region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Molsheim
Canton	Saverne
Community association	Mossig et Vignoble
Coordinates	48 ° 36 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '  N , 7 ° 28'  E
height	174-265 m
surface	3.10 km 2
Residents	648 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	209 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	67310
INSEE code	67492
Evangelical Church (12th - 16th centuries)

Historical riding school (16th – 18th centuries), today: restaurant

Hofreite (19th century)

The Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul (1912)

Traenheim (German Tränheim ) is a French commune with 648 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the canton of Saverne and the Mossig et Vignoble municipal association .

geography

Traenheim is located 21 kilometers west of Strasbourg , 15 kilometers north of Obernai and five kilometers southeast of Wasselonne between the neighboring communities of Westhoffen in the west and Odratzheim in the east. The northern boundary of the municipality is the Kohbach , a left tributary of the Mossig .

history

middle Ages

Traenheim was half a fiefdom of the empire to the other half allod, and half of the Lords of Lichtenberg to the other of another fiefdom. At least in the 18th century, they were the lords of Flachslanden . The lords of Lichtenberg were first enfeoffed in 1431. The Lichtenberg share was assigned to their office in Westhofen , and in the meantime, in the 15th century, to their office in Wörth . When Jakob von Lichtenberg, the last male member of the house, died in 1480 , the inheritance was shared between his two nieces, Anna and Elisabeth. Anna had married Count Philipp I (the Elder) of Hanau (1417–1480), through whom the Westhofen office came to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , which resulted from this marriage .

Modern times

The Reformation was introduced in Traenheim in 1556 . With the reunion policy of France under King Louis XIV , the Westhofen and Traenheim offices came under French sovereignty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance - and with it the Lichtenberg share in Traenheim - fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the hereditary prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval started by the French Revolution , the Westhofen office became part of France and was dissolved in the ensuing administrative reforms.

Traenheim was a member of the Communauté de communes des Coteaux de la Mossig , founded in 1992 , which was merged into the Communauté de communes de la Mossig et du Vignoble in 2017 .

Population development

year	1798	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2017
Residents	209	382	397	421	477	496	556	630	648

Culture

Traenheim is represented with a flower in the Conseil national des villes et villages fleuris (National Council of Flowered Cities and Villages). The "flowers" are awarded in the course of a regional competition, whereby a maximum of three flowers can be achieved.

Attractions

Synagogues

The building in which the old synagogue was located bears the year 1582 on the door to the cellar. In 1722 the building was converted into a synagogue, which was inaugurated in 1723. The inner walls of the old synagogue are painted with Hebrew inscriptions, flowers and other decorations. It is the only synagogue in Alsace with painted interior walls. The old synagogue was given up for a new building in the 19th century. The painted walls of the old synagogue were whitewashed and the building was used as a granary. In the 20th century the wall paintings were rediscovered and restored by the owner's family. In 1998 the old synagogue was classified as a monument historique ( cultural monument ).

In 1842 a new synagogue was built. In 1923 the last Jewish family left Traenheim and the Consistoire Strasbourg sold the new synagogue, which has not been preserved.

Protestant church

The Evangelical Lutheran church was built over a cemetery from the Merovingian era. Of the original Romanesque building from the 12th and 13th centuries, only the bell tower remains today . The Gothic choir was built in the 13th or 14th century. The nave was renewed in the 14th or 15th century. The year 1508 is on the south-facing window.

Personalities

Joseph (Joe) Woerlin (born October 9, 1864 in Traenheim, † June 22, 1919 in St. Louis , United States ) was a professional baseball player who played in 1895 for the then Washington Senators team.

economy

Traenheim is on the Alsace Wine Route . Important occupations of the Traenheimois are, besides viticulture , fruit growing and the breeding of domestic cattle and domestic sheep . There is a wine cooperative and a wine trail on site.

literature

• 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).
• 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 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , p. 1559.

Web links

Commons : Traenheim  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Traenheim on annuaire-mairie.fr (French). Retrieved January 31, 2010.
2. ↑ Eyer, p. 128.
3. ↑ Knöpp, p. 17.
4. ↑ Eyer, p. 139.
5. ↑ Eyer, p. 239; Knöpp, p. 17; Matt, p. 9.
6. ↑ Eyer, p. 98.
7. ↑ Traenheim on the INSEE website (French). Accessed September 30, 2014.
8. ^ Matt, p. 9.
9. ↑ Bas-Rhin, Palmarès des communes labellisées  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) Retrieved January 31, 2010.  
10. ↑ The Old Synagogue at Judaisme de l'Alsace et de la Lorraine (French). Retrieved January 31, 2010.
11. ↑ Traenheim in Base Mérimée (French) Retrieved June 23, 2016.
12. ↑ Joe Woerlin on Baseball-Reference.com (English). Retrieved January 31, 2010.
13. ↑ Vignoble on traenheim.net (French).