Urschenheim
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Colmar-Ribeauvillé | |
| Canton | Ensisheim | |
| Community association | Pays Rhin-Brisach | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 5 ' N , 7 ° 29' E | |
| height | 185-190 m | |
| surface | 6.42 km 2 | |
| Residents | 735 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 114 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68320 | |
| INSEE code | 68345 | |
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Urschenheim ( Alsatian Ürsche , IPA : [yːrʃə] ) is a French commune with 735 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). The village in the canton of Ensisheim is a member of the Pays Rhin-Brisach community association .
geography
Urschenheim is about ten kilometers east of Colmar and eight kilometers north-northwest of Neuf-Brisach in the Upper Rhine Plain , about five kilometers from the Rhine . The very flat area has a height difference of only 5 meters.
Neighboring communities are (from the north clockwise) the places Muntzenheim , Durrenentzen , Kunheim and Widensolen as well as Fortschwihr, which are also in the canton of Ensisheim .
history
Burial mounds in the Urschenheimer Bann attest to a settlement as early as the first millennium BC.
Urschenheim itself is first mentioned in 817 as Ueratesheim . The spelling of the name then changed in the course of time, so the place is mentioned in 987 as Uresheim , 1318 as Ursheim and 1639 as Urszheim .
The place was owned by the diocese of Strasbourg from 1325 until the French Revolution in 1789. In the second half of the 17th century, in the course of Louis XIV's policy of conquest, the sovereignty of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation changed to France.
According to the chronicles, only five people survived the Thirty Years' War in the village. The place was then repopulated by immigrants from the wider region, including Switzerland . The then newly created cadastre from 1657 is still in the village archive.
From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Urschenheim belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Colmar district in the Upper Alsace district .
Population development
| year | 1910 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2014 |
| Residents | 353 | 271 | 301 | 336 | 551 | 569 | 639 | 666 | 714 |
coat of arms
The Urschenheim coat of arms shows a green, winged dragon on a silver background.
Attractions
- Catholic village church of St. George with furnishings by Léon Zack
- St. George Church
inside view
Southeast side
organ
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 125-127.
