Wintzenheim
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Haut-Rhin | |
| Arrondissement | Colmar-Ribeauvillé | |
| Canton | Wintzenheim (main town) | |
| Community association | Colmar agglomeration | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 4 ′ N , 7 ° 17 ′ E | |
| height | 202-827 m | |
| surface | 18.97 km 2 | |
| Residents | 7,594 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 400 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 68920 | |
| INSEE code | 68374 | |
 Town Hall ( Hôtel de ville ) |
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Wintzenheim ( German Winzenheim ) is a French commune with 7594 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). The municipality is located on the Alsace Wine Route and is the capital of the canton of the same name .
geography
The municipality of Wintzenheim is five kilometers west of Colmar . The municipality, which belongs to the Regional Nature Park Ballons des Vosges , extends from the Upper Rhine Plain over the Fechttal (also called Münstertal ) to the heights of the Vosges south of the Fecht, which reach a maximum of 827 m above sea level.
In addition to the city center, the municipality also includes the villages of Logelbach, La Forge, Saint-Gilles and Chapelle des Bois .
history
The city and its surroundings were already settled in Roman times. The remains of a Roman villa and Roman coins have been found near the site.
The oldest documentary mention dates back to 786, at that time still under the name Wingisheim . Although the place was fortified around 1275, it was denied city rights . Already a winegrowing village, it belonged to the Landsberg rule and thus to the Habsburgs . The area was given several fiefdoms in the following centuries : first to the Lords of Rappoltstein , then to the Count of Lupfen and in the 16th century to Lazarus von Schwendi . In 1680 cavalry general Joseph de Montclar received the fief as a reward and was thus ruler of Wintzenheim.
The place has belonged to France since the French Revolution , but like the rest of Alsace was part of the German Empire between 1871 and 1919 .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
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| Residents | 5832 | 6001 | 6311 | 6441 | 6554 | 7180 | 7610 | 7594 |
Attractions
- Château du Haut-Landsbourg , built from 1279 under Rudolf von Habsburg . It is located at the exit of the Münster valley.
- Château du Pflixbourg
- Château Thurnburg (Wintzenheim Town Hall)
- The classicist Laurentiuskirche, built in 1840.
- Synagogue ( Monument historique )
Hohlandsberg Castle
Laurentiuskirche
synagogue
Sainte-Odile Church
View of the Rue Clemenceau street
traffic
From 1885 to 1960 there was a narrow-gauge rail connection from Wintzenheim to Colmar, which was integrated into the tram network in Colmar from 1932 . The departmental road D 417 leads through the village, which leads from Colmar through the Fecht valley via Munster to the Col de la Schlucht (gorge pass ) on the Vosges ridge .
Parish partnership
- Möhnesee , North Rhine-Westphalia, since 1988
Personalities
- General Joseph de Montclar (1625–1690), military governor of Alsace, noble title of Hohlandsbourg
- Joseph Joos (1878–1965), Catholic activist, member of the German Reichstag, victim of the Nazi regime
- Florine Langweil , née Ebstein (born September 10, 1861 in Wintzenheim; died 1958 in Paris), art dealer and collector
- Hans Karl Hohberg, called Hans Hohberg (born April 21, 1906 in Winzenheim, † November 2, 1968 in Leinfelden-Echterdingen) was a German auditor and convicted war criminal in the Nuremberg trial
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Haut-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-036-1 , pp. 1350-1356.
