Westhoffen
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Molsheim | |
| Canton | Saverne | |
| Community association | Mossig et Vignoble | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 36 ' N , 7 ° 26' E | |
| height | 184-531 m | |
| surface | 20.65 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,651 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 80 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67310 | |
| INSEE code | 67525 | |
| Website | http://www.westhoffen.net/ | |
 Mairie Westhoffen |
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Westhoffen (German Westhofen in Alsace ) is a French commune with 1651 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the canton of Saverne in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). She is a member of the Communauté de communes de la Mossig et du Vignoble .
geography
Westhoffen is located on the Alsace Wine Route , 25 kilometers west of Strasbourg .
history
middle Ages
Westhofen was a fief of the empire to the Lords of Lichtenberg . The first loan took place on October 21, 1302. In the Lichtenberg rule it was assigned to the Westhofen office of the same name . In 1332 Westhofen received city rights , namely that of Hagenau .
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 I (the Elder) of Hanau (1417–1480), through whom the Westhofen office came to the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg , which resulted from this marriage .
Modern times
Count Philipp IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg carried out the Reformation in his county in 1545 , which now became Lutheran .
With the reunion policy of France under King Louis XIV , the Westhofen and Westhofen offices came under French suzerainty. After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. , the inheritance - and with it Westhofen - fell in 1736 to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , the hereditary prince and later Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval started by the French Revolution , the Westhofen office became part of France and was dissolved in the ensuing administrative reforms.
Westhoffen belonged to the Communauté de communes des Coteaux de la Mossig , which was founded in 1992 and which was merged into the Communauté de communes de la Mossig et du Vignoble in 2017 .
Population development
| year | 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2017 |
| Residents | 2383 | 1322 | 1348 | 1386 | 1416 | 1460 | 1590 | 1605 | 1651 |
Attractions
- Westhoffen Protestant Church
- Roman Catholic Martinskirche
- Synagogue and Jewish cemetery
- Building of the communal wine press Pressoir de la mairie
Personalities
- Gustav Kron (1878–1942), 1905 to 1914 teacher of the Jewish community, murdered in 1942 in the Kulmhof extermination camp
- Victor Nessmann (1873–1944), pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation from 1899 to 1940
- Victor Nessmann (1900–1944), son of the pastor, grew up in Westhoffen, doctor, resistance fighter and victim of National Socialism, namesake of Place Dr Nessmann
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).
- 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].
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1572-1575.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eyer, pp. 57, 128.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 130.
- ↑ Knöpp, p. 17; Matt, p. 9; Eyer, p. 239.
- ↑ Eyer, p. 228f.
- ^ Westhoffen on the INSEE website
- ^ Matt, p. 9.
- ^ Westhoffen, paroisse luthérienne