Valff

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Valff
Valff coat of arms
Valff (France)
Valff
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein
Canton Obernai
Community association Pays de Barr
Coordinates 48 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 25 '  N , 7 ° 31'  E
height 152-167 m
surface 10.91 km 2
Residents 1,318 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 121 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67210
INSEE code 67504
Website http://www.valff.fr/

Mairie Valff

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Valff (German Walf ) is a French commune with 1,318 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Sélestat-Erstein and the Canton of Obernai .

geography

The municipality of Valff is located in the western Upper Rhine Plain , about 22 kilometers southwest of Strasbourg . The stream Kirneck, which comes from the four kilometers to the west towering Vosges , flows below the town center into the Andlau , which also forms the southeastern municipal boundary of Valff.

Neighboring communities of Valff are Niedernai in the north, Uttenheim in the east, Kertzfeld in the southeast, Gertwiller in the southeast, Zellwiller in the south, Bourgheim in the west and Goxwiller in the northwest.

history

The place name Valff was derived from the Celtic Valva and means river that runs into the flat country . In its centuries of history, the place belonged to various monasteries and abbeys. He was not spared from the Thirty Years War .

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Valff belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Erstein district in the Lower Alsace district .

Population development

year 1910 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2008 2017
Residents 1139 1011 1081 1121 1173 1234 1281 1352 1318

Attractions

  • Chapel of Sainte-Marguerite

  • Saint Blaise Church

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 934-935.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Erstein district
  2. ↑ Sainte-Marguerite Chapel in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  3. ↑ Saint-Blaise Church in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Web links

Commons : Valff  - collection of images, videos and audio files