Uttwiller
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Bouxwiller | |
| Community association | Hanau-La Petite Pierre | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 51 ′ N , 7 ° 29 ′ E | |
| height | 184-256 m | |
| surface | 2.99 km 2 | |
| Residents | 161 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 54 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67330 | |
| INSEE code | 67503 | |
| Website | uttwiller.olympe.in | |
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Uttwiller (German Uttweiler ) is a French commune with 161 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 Bouxwiller .
geography
The topography of the village is slightly hilly. The Soultzbach flows north of the town center through the municipality. Uttwiller is located between the neighboring communities Menchhoffen in the north, Niedersoultzbach in the west and the canton capital Bouxwiller in the south, 15 kilometers northeast of Saverne and 35 kilometers northwest of Strasbourg in Hanauerland in the northwest of Alsace.
history
middle Ages
As a fiefdom of the Bishop of Metz, Uttweiler belonged to the Lords of Lichtenberg as early as the 13th century . They assigned it to the Buchsweiler office , which arose at the beginning of the 14th century as an office of the Lichtenberg rule . Around 1330 there was a first division of land between Johann II. Von Lichtenberg , from the older line of the house, and Ludwig III. from Lichtenberg . Utweiler fell into the part of the property that was managed by the older line in the future.
Anna von Lichtenberg (* 1442; † 1474), daughter of Ludwig V. von Lichtenberg (* 1417; † 1474), and one of two heirs with claims to the rule, married Count Philip I the Elder of Hanau-Babenhausen in 1458 (* 1417; † 1480). He had received a small secondary school from the holdings of the County of Hanau in order to be able to marry her. The county of Hanau-Lichtenberg came into being through the marriage . After the death of the last Lichtenberger, Jakob von Lichtenberg , an uncle of Anna, Philipp I. d. Ä. 1480 half of the Lichtenberg rule. The other half went to his brother-in-law, Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . The Buchsweiler office - and thus also Uttweiler - belonged to the part of Hanau-Lichtenberg that Anna's descendants inherited.
Modern times
Count Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (1514–1590), after taking office in 1538, consistently carried out the Reformation in his county, which now became Lutheran . The Reformation has been considered to have been introduced in Uttweiler since 1545. In the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) Uttwiller was devastated and later repopulated by the Swiss .
Uttweiler was completely destroyed in the Thirty Years War and then settled again with immigrants , mainly from Switzerland. With France's reunification policy under King Louis XIV , the Buchsweiler office came under French sovereignty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, Hanau-Lichtenberg - and with it the Buchsweiler office - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , Landgrave Ludwig (IX) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval begun by the French Revolution , Uttweiler became French and received the status of a municipality in 1793 (as Uttweiler ) and in 1801 the right to local self-government (as Uttwiler ).
After Prussia's victory in the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871), the whole of Alsace - and with it the town - fell to Germany . After the First World War (1914-1918) it fell back to France.
Population development
| year | 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2014 |
| Residents | 188 | 187 | 191 | 177 | 169 | 191 | 177 | 172 | 159 |
Attractions
- The Lutheran church was built in 1683 after the previous building was destroyed in the Thirty Years War. From 1785 to 1787 the church was renovated.
- A so-called banc reposoir ( resting bench ) was built in 1854. It is a combination of seating and outdoor storage. The quiet bench was built on the instructions of the Prefect of the Department, Auguste-César West, for the annual celebration of the wedding of Eugénie de Montijo to Napoleon III. , built. In 1988 it was entered in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques (historical monuments).
economy
The image of the community is characterized by willows and fruit trees. An important line of business for the Uttwillerois (residents) is cattle breeding. There is a dairy cooperative on site.
literature
- Kathrin Ellwardt: Lutherans between France and the Reich: Church buildings in the Alsatian offices of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg under Johann Reinhard III. and Louis IX. In: New Magazine for Hanau History 2016, pp. 18–59.
- 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].
- 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.
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin . Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 238-239.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Uttwiller on annuaire-mairie.fr (French). Retrieved January 28, 2010.
- ↑ Knöpp, p. 6; Eyer, pp. 52, 160.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 52.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 238.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 238.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 78.
- ↑ Notre histoire on uttwiller.olympe.in ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French).
- ↑ Ellwardt, p. 49.
- ^ Uttwiller on Cassini.ehess.fr (French). Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- ^ Matt, p. 7.
- ↑ Ellwardt, p. 49.
- ↑ Utwiller in Base Mérimée (French). Retrieved January 29, 2010.
- ↑ Quelques données on uttwiller.olympe.in ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in French.
