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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Haguenau-Wissembourg | |
| Canton | Reichshoffen | |
| Community association | Sauer-Pechelbronn | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 56 ' N , 7 ° 45' E | |
| height | 160-242 m | |
| surface | 6.47 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,745 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 270 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67360 | |
| INSEE code | 67550 | |
| Website | www.ville-woerth.eu/ | |
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Wœrth or Woerth ( German Wörth or Wörth an der Sauer , formerly also Wördt ) is a French commune with 1745 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin (Lower Rhine ) department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement Haguenau-Wissembourg , the canton Reichshoffen and the community association Sauer-Pechelbronn .
geography
The municipality of Wœrth is located on the Sauer at the foot of the high forest belonging to the southern Palatinate Forest, about 23 kilometers southwest of Wissembourg . The municipality of Wœrth is part of the North Vosges Regional Nature Park .
history
middle Ages
The Lords of Lichtenberg bought the castle, town and mill Wörth (historically also: Nieder-Wörth) in 1308 from the Wildgraves of Kirchberg (Kyrburg). In the rule of Lichtenberg it was assigned to the Wörth office, which had arisen in the 13th century and whose “capital” it became at the end of the 14th century. In 1330 Wörth (a word related to Furt and Fürth ) received city rights , namely that of Hagenau . In 1335 the land was divided between the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg . The city fell to Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg , who founded the younger line of the house.
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 IV of Hanau (1514–1590), Elisabeth von Lichtenberg (* 1444; † 1495) Simon IV. Wecker von Zweibrücken-Bitsch . Amt Wörth and City of Wörth came to Zweibrücken-Bitsch during the division.
Early modern age
In 1570 there was another inheritance that brought the Wörth office to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg : Count Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) and his brother Simon V. Wecker , who died in 1540, each left only one daughter as heir. Count Jakob's daughter, Margarethe (* 1540; † 1569), was married to Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599). The legacy resulting from this constellation also included the second half of the former Lichtenberg rule, which was not already governed by Hanau-Lichtenberg. Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg immediately carried out the Reformation in the inherited areas , which, like the rest of his dominion, now became Lutheran .
Count Philipp V von Hanau-Lichtenberg set up the first mint of his county in the city in 1588 .
With the reunion policy of France under King Louis XIV. Wörth came under French suzerainty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance - and thus also Wörth - fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the hereditary prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) of Hesse-Darmstadt .
Modern times
With the upheaval begun by the French Revolution , the Amt Wörth became part of France and dissolved in the subsequent administrative reforms.
The place gained national fame through the battle of Wörth at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War on August 6, 1870. A museum in the village commemorates this battle, known in France as the Bataille de Frœschwiller-Wœrth and which claimed around 20,000 deaths . In Germany, streets in many cities are named after Wörth to this day. The memory of this battle, which was victorious for the Germans, used to have an important meaning in the memory of the German unification of 1871. Especially west of Wörth, on the roads to Fröschweiler and Elsasshausen, there are numerous war memorials dedicated to the German and French victims remember the battle.
Population development
| year | 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
| Residents | 774 | 1335 | 1475 | 1741 | 1710 | 1626 | 1670 | 1814 | 1745 |
Attractions
The Lutheran City Church is essentially a medieval building that has been rebuilt several times. It was a simultaneous church until 1898 .
There are a number of war memorials from the Franco-German War . The Musée de la Bataille du 6 Août 1870 in the castle is also dedicated to the battle of Wörth .
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).
- 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 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1655-1665.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eyer, p. 115.
- ↑ Eyer, pp. 57f, 115.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 238.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 115.
- ^ Website of the city: Présentation du village .
- ↑ Eyer, p. 228f.
- ↑ Eyer, pp. 79f.
- ^ Matt, p. 7.
- ↑ Cf. 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 (34).