Zittersheim

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Zittersheim
Zittersheim coat of arms
Zittersheim (France)
Zittersheim
region Grand Est
Department Bas-Rhin
Arrondissement Saverne
Canton Ingwiller
Community association Hanau-La Petite Pierre
Coordinates 48 ° 54 '  N , 7 ° 21'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 54 '  N , 7 ° 21'  E
height 220-390 m
surface 7.92 km 2
Residents 250 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 32 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 67290
INSEE code

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Zittersheim is a French commune with 250 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Bas-Rhin department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Alsace ).

Geographical location

Zittersheim lies in the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve , in the area of ​​the Moder streams . The district Moderfeld, which lies on a ridge, belongs to Zittersheim. The source of the Moder lies directly below Moderfeld.

The neighboring communities are Rosteig in the north, Wingen-sur-Moder in the northeast, Erckartswiller in the southeast, Hinsbourg in the west and Puberg in the northwest.

history

middle Ages

As an allod , the village of Zittersheim initially belonged to the Buchsweiler office of the Lichtenberg lordship when it was formed in the 13th century. Around 1330 the Buchsweiler office was divided and the Ingweiler office spun off. Zittersheim was assigned to the Ingweiler office as part of the Ingweiler Büttelei . The reason for the new organization may have been the two divisions that took place in the Lichtenberg House around 1330 and in 1335. In 1335 the land was divided between the middle and younger lines of the House of Lichtenberg . Zittersheim fell to the descendants of Johann III, who died early . von Lichtenberg , who established the middle line of the house.

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 that part of the inheritance that fell to the County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch . These counted it to their rule Oberbronn .

Modern times

The rulership of Oberbonn - and with it Zittersheim - came from Zweibrücken-Bitsch to this family in 1551 as a dowry on the occasion of the marriage of Amelie von Zweibrücken-Bitsch to Philip I of Leiningen-Westerburg . At this point at the latest, Zittersheim finally left the area of ​​influence of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg.

As a successor to the Leininger, the Landgraves of Hessen-Homburg and, to a lesser extent, the Swedish aristocratic family of the Barons von Sinclair became lords of Oberbronn in the 17th century. Due to France's reunification policy , the rule of Oberbronn and the village of Zittersheim also fell under French suzerainty in the second half of the 17th century. The Hesse-Homburg part passed to the Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein family in the middle of the 18th century , while the Sinclair part went to the von Lewenhaupt family, who were also of Swedish origin. Hohenlohe had to cede the rule to France in 1793 and was later resigned to areas of the secularized diocese of Würzburg . In the administrative reforms following the French Revolution , the rule of Oberbronn was dissolved. Zittersheim was French now.

From 1871 until the end of the First World War , Zittersheim belonged to the German Empire as part of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine and was assigned to the Zabern district in the Lower Alsace district .

Population development

1910 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012 2014
371 206 231 228 216 217 205 249 237 235

literature

  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Bas-Rhin. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Charenton-le-Pont 1999, ISBN 2-84234-055-8 , pp. 1004-1005.
  • 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).
  • Freddy Gutbub and Ernst Hallenberger: Rothbach - Histoire d'un village des Vosges du Nord / History of a village in the Northern Vosges . 1991. ISBN 2-9505842-0-9 ( bilingual : in French and German)
  • Peter Karl Weber: Lichtenberg. Alsatian domination on the way to becoming a territorial state. Social costs of political innovation . Heidelberg 1993.

Web links

Commons : Zittersheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Eyer, p. 53.
  2. Eyer, p. 238.
  3. Eyer, p. 79.
  4. Brumm, p. 11.
  5. ^ Weber, p. 37, note 59.
  6. ^ Matt, p. 7.
  7. Waltz and Rudolph.
  8. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 481: Keyword: Oberbronn (Herrschaft) .
  9. Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Zabern district