Wolfgantzen

Wolfgantzen
region	Grand Est
Department	Haut-Rhin
Arrondissement	Colmar-Ribeauvillé
Canton	Ensisheim
Community association	Pays Rhin-Brisach
Coordinates	48 ° 2 ′ N , 7 ° 30 ′ E Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ N , 7 ° 30 ′ E
height	191-197 m
surface	9.38 km 2
Residents	1,048 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	112 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	68600
INSEE code	68379
Website	http://www.wolfgantzen.fr/
	; Mairie Wolfgantzen

Wolfgantzen ( German Wolfganzen ) is a French commune with 1048 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ). She is a member of the Pays Rhin-Brisach municipal association .

geography

Wolfgantzen is north-west of Neuf-Brisach and is passed by the Départementsstraße D 415 and the museum railway line Colmar - Volgelsheim . The community area is used for agriculture, in the west there is a forest area.

history

The place is named after Saint Wolfgang and was mentioned as Wolfgangesheim at the turn of the first millennium . The current place name is derived from the Alsatian-Alemannic pronunciation of the original name.

In the High Middle Ages Wolfgantzen was first under the rule of the Counts of Egisheim and then the Habsburgs in the 13th and 14th centuries . In the 15th century the place then fell to the House of Württemberg. Because of this affiliation, Wolfgantzen became Protestant in 1536 during the Reformation . Towards the end of the 17th century, the Württemberg possessions in Alsace came under French suzerainty. In contrast to the possessions that remained in the Holy Roman Empire, the people of Württemberg had to allow the Catholic rite again. The local church, whose origins date back to the 11th century, was then used as a Simultaneum from 1685 until the building of its own Catholic church in 1877 .

The rule of Württemberg ended with the French Revolution and the associated introduction of centralism in France. The further political affiliation Wolfgantzen followed that of Alsace. From 1871 until the end of the First World War , it belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Colmar district in the Upper Alsace district .