Bœrsch

Bœrsch is a common French, located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace.

The German name - Alsacien which is not official is Börsch . Its inhabitants is called Bœrschois.

Geography

Bœrsch is located in the Alsatian vineyard, in a depression of an affluent of left bank of the Ehn, to approximately 30 km in the south-west of Strasbourg. Boersch is between the town of Rosheim and Obernai not far from Molsheim.

Localities and variations

  • Klingenthal, celebrates for its manufacture of knives.
  • St-Léonard, celebrates for his workshop of Marqueterie Spindler conceived at the beginning of the 20th century.

Communes bordering

History

The village is mentioned for the first fos in 1109 at the time of the foundation of the abbey of Saint-Léonnard. About 1340, the bishop of Strasbourg, Berthold de Bucheck, grants the statute of city to the locality and sets up the fortifications of the city. With the Middle Ages the city is devastated and plundered on several occasions. From the XVI to the XVII centuries she knows one boom, but during the Thirty Year old war, (1618 - 1648) she is plundered then occupied by the Swedes. Its population increases then regularly until about 1830, then regresses then with the closing of the manufacture of knives of Klingenthal and the rural migration. The situation is reversed about 1960. (source: Inheritance of the Communes of France)

Blasonnement

Two white fish (poles) which turn the back on a bottom blue-azure.

Administration

Demography

  • municipal population in 2004: 2.457

  • municipal population in 2006: 2.499

Personalities related to the commune

  • Carl Georg Müller is an author of the Alsatian Théâtre, born in 1796 with Rosheim, notary then mayor of Boersch of 1830 to 1848. He died on October 1st, 1879, in Boersch.
  • Charles Müller, journalist, born in Boersch the May 8th 1823.
  • Charles Spindler, painter and inlayer, born in 1865.
  • Paul Spindler, painter and inlayer, born in 1906. It will take again the workshop of marquetry of his Charles father.
  • Anselme Laugel, large Alsatian Patron , died in Saint-Léonard the July 29th 1928.

Inheritance

Religious heritage

  • church of the 18th century, flanked of a partly Romance tower of chorus.
  • bell of 1536
  • Mount of Olives of 1602.

Civil inheritance

  • doors of acccès at the city Des.
  • Town hall of the middle of the 16th century; its turret carries the date of 1572 and the oriel that of 1615.
  • well to six seals on the place of the Town hall.
  • well in the court of old Chartreuse of 1565.

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