Wimmenau
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Bas-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Saverne | |
| Canton | Ingwiller | |
| Community association | Hanau-La Petite Pierre | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 55 ' N , 7 ° 25' E | |
| height | 197-413 m | |
| surface | 20.76 km 2 | |
| Residents | 1,081 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 52 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 67290 | |
| INSEE code | 67535 | |
| Website | http://www.wimmenau.new.fr/ | |
Wimmenau is a French commune with 1081 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin département in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Saverne and the Canton of Ingwiller .
geography
The municipality of Wimmenau is located on the Moder in the northern Vosges and is part of the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve .
The neighboring communities are Reipertswiller and Lichtenberg in the northeast, Ingwiller in the southeast, Sparsbach in the south, Erckartswiller in the southwest, Wingen-sur-Moder in the west and Goetzenbruck in the northwest.
history
middle Ages
The village of Wimmenau initially belonged to the Buchsweiler office of the Lichtenberg rule when this was formed in the 13th century. The information about the legal title on the basis of which the Lords of Lichtenberg held the ownership rights to the village is contradictory: Either it was an imperial fief - which is supported by the statement that the village was originally an imperial estate - or an allod . In the first half of the 14th century the Buchsweiler office was divided around 1330 and the Ingweiler office was spun off, to which Wimmenau was added. The reason for this may have been the division of the country, which was established around 1330 between Johann II. Von Lichtenberg , from the older line of the house, and Ludwig III. von Lichtenberg took place. Wimmenau fell into the part of the property that was managed by the older line in the future or to the middle line of the house - the information here is contradictory.
In 1480, Count Jakob, the last male member of the von Lichtenberg family, died, his inheritance and rule were divided. The Ingweiler office belonged to the part of the inheritance that fell to Zweibrücken-Bitsch .
Modern times
However, there was another inheritance in 1570, when the Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg took possession of the Ingweiler office. The Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg introduced the Reformation in their county from the middle of the 16th century , which now became Lutheran .
With the reunion policy of France under King Louis XIV , the office of Ingweiler came under French suzerainty.
After the death of the last Hanau count, Johann Reinhard III. In 1736, the inheritance - and with it the office of Ingweiler - fell to the son of his only daughter, Charlotte , Landgrave Ludwig (IX.) Of Hesse-Darmstadt . With the upheaval that began with the French Revolution , the Ingweiler office - and thus also Wimmenau - became part of France.
Population development
| 1798 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2012 | 2014 |
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| 221 | 826 | 860 | 864 | 900 | 1.012 | 1,050 | 1,130 | 1,133 | 1,125 |
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 994-996.
- 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.
