Walbourg

Walbourg
region	Grand Est
Department	Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement	Haguenau-Wissembourg
Canton	Reichshoffen
Community association	Sauer-Pechelbronn
Coordinates	48 ° 53 ' N , 7 ° 47' E Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ' N , 7 ° 47' E
height	146-177 m
surface	5.33 km 2
Residents	917 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	172 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	67360
INSEE code	67511
Website	www.walbourg-hinterfeld.fr

Walbourg (German Walburg ) is a French commune with 917 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Haguenau-Wissembourg and the canton of Reichshoffen .

history

The place developed around the Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburg , in which Friedrich II , Duke of Swabia († April 1147), and the heart of his wife Judith of Bavaria († probably 1130/31), the parents of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa , buried were.

Devastated in the peasant wars, the monastery was incorporated into the Weißenburg monastery and then came under the rule of the Electoral Palatinate . 1687 assigned to the seminary in Strasbourg by Louis XIV . From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Walbourg belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Weißenburg district in the Lower Alsace district .

Population development

year	1910	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2007	2017
Residents	552	531	519	861	822	707	786	792	917

church

The Gothic church of St. Walburga , built between 1456 and 1462, contains elements of a previous Romanesque building . The place got its name from this church.