Dabo

Dabo (in German Dagsburg ) is a common French, located in the department of the the Moselle and the area Lorraine. The inhabitants of Dabo are called the daboisiens.

Geography

Dabo is a small village, located in full heart of the the Vosges natives of the Moselle region, between Sarrebourg, Phalsbourg and Saverne. The vast territory of the common extends on the western slope from the Vosgean massive , in its sandy part. This sandstone of the Buntsandstein , old from approximately 240 to 250 million years, constitutes an element marking of the medium: it is declined in ruiniform reliefs, completely traditional of modelled of sandy structure in multiple places of the commune, as with the locality of the rocks of the Corbels . The species Végétal be are well adapted to the substrate sandstone which confers an high degree of acidity on the ground: the thorn-bushes or the Fougère S cover an important part of the communal round of applause.

The emblem of the locality, the rock of Dabo, culminates with 647 meters, the right of a top of sandstone. It owes its rise with a more hardened sandstone by the presence in detrital elements of the rollers type: differential erosion thus did not succeed in coming also easily to end from this more resistant sandstone (see Poudingue). Constrained relief the wet Wind S of west to abondonner a surplus of precipitations on these Vosgean buttresses compared to the Lorraine plate : it rains on average more than 1000 millimetres of precipitations in Dabo, whereas the precipitated water blade exceeds slightly 800 millimetres with Sarrebourg and 740 with Metz.

History

Vestiges attest human presence dice the Stone Age, then Celtes, Triboques, Romains then Francs.

The County of Dabo passed successively to the hands of Hugues I, count of the Nordgau (Alsace), at the beginning of X century, then with his/her son Eberhard IV towards 934 (grandson of Etichon-Adalric of Alsace, duke of Alsace and nephew of Sainte Odile). It is as from this time that it made build the castle of Dabo or Dagsburg. The walls encircled all the circumference of the rock and included/understood a tower of dwelling, small towers of guet and a building for the reserves and the stables, as well as a puit for water reserve (still visible today behind the vault).

The grand-daughter of Eberhard and her husband inherited the county, then starting from Hugues IV of Eguisheim the area belonged to the counts d' Eguisheim-Dabo (of which most famous representing of the family is the pope Saint Leon IX) until the 13th century. The county passed in 1225 to the family of Linange until 1793.

October 24th, 1648, Alsace was yielded to France by the Traité of Westphalia. The Counts de Linange who refused allégence with Louis XIV, took the weapons against him in 1672. But after a long seat in front of the castle, which constituted an obstacle with advanced troops, this one had to capitulate on March 13rd, 1677. The castle of Dabo was shaven in 1679 on order of Louis XIV and Louvois, its minister of state.

The rock remained naked during one century and half, then a vault devoted to Saint Leon IX was set up in the same place in 1825. Following the bad weather, the building was demolished in 1889 and rebuilds in Romance style with addition of a tower which will be used as view-point (according to the wishes of Strieve, founder of the Vosgean Club). The new vault was inaugurated on October 12th, 1892.

A Franco-German informal summit took place on July 19th, 1983 in Dabo between President Mitterrand and the Kohl Chancellor.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the rock of Dabo , culminating with 647 meters, surmounted Vault Saint-Leon (664 meters).
the headland-view-point of Backofenfels , with its vast panorama on the rock of Dabo and the Lorraine Plate (740 meters).
the headland of climbing of Falkenfelsen , between Hellert and Haselbourg (426 meters): superb sight on Dabo and its valley, troglodytic houses with the foot of cliff, varied climbing ways, etc

These houses troglotyques of Falkenfelsen go back to good before the construction of the first houses of Hellert in 1789. A census of 1872 counts 38 people living under the rocks in margin of the company. In 1894, the Austrian administration makes jump these dwellings to oblige the inhabitants to lie in the villages (indications being reproduced on the panel in the entry of the site). Only remain 3 dwellings located on private fields, carefully restored and worth visiting.

the circuit VTT of Eichelkopf (accessible since the forest collar from Schleif, or also, since the hamlet of Hoube).
the rock of Nutzkopf (515 m), with its beautiful and comfortable top (bench of rest and sight).
the monolith strange, wild and insulated, of Steinerne Maennel (picturesque human forms): rock also known under the name of " Hommelet of Pierre " .
Of many marked out hikes allows excursions without difficulties and to admire the area since the many view-points (Web site of the Hiking).

the Roman cemetery of Beimbach , with the locality of the " Three saints" , on the height of Walscheid. Surrounded by a low wall, the cemetery is composed of the stones of likings cut in the shape of house posed on another flagstone. Such a monument is visible opposite the entry of the Tourist office of Dabo and one will notice, at his base, the opening which owed servire with " to supply the défunts".

the crystal manufacture of Dabo and the crystal tailors show all the art of the work of glass and decoration by cutting (tailor on crystal).

Personalities related to the commune

Saint Leon IX (1002 - 1054) would have been born in Dabo, which question the Alsatian city of Eguisheim, also claiming the fatherland of the saint man, as well as the Lorraine village of Walscheid.

Festivals and habits

an old habit which goes back to the XVI century, following the repopulation of the area by colonists from France, of Bavaria, of Switzerland and the Tyrol, the lords granted many forest rights to them, of which oldest goes back to 1569. Still nowadays the descendants of these colonists profit from the granting of 8 resinous trees per annum (right known as of the middle-class wood ). this habits gives place to an important annual fair which is held after November 11th.

To see in the surroundings

the Haut-Barr
the Turn of Cap, last vestigue of the telegraph
turns of the Large-Geroldseck and the Small Geroldseck
the tower of Brotsch, altitude of 530m.
the Castle of Ochsenstein (XII century, destroyed with the XIV century, restored and redétruit in 1632.
the tilted Plane of Saint-Louis-Arzviller, on the channel of the Marne in the Rhine.
the charming town of Saverne.

sources

Tourist office of Dabo, hiking and visits tourist.

External bonds

Tourist site of Dabo
Dabo on the site of the national geographical Institute
Dabo on the site of INSEE
Dabo on the site of Quid
Localization of Dabo on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Dabo on Mapquest

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