Dambach-the-City

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

Geography

History

Some reference marks chronolgic
  • 1125: first mention of the village under the name of Tambacum
  • 1227: Dambach becomes the possession of the bishop of Strasbourg
  • beginning of the 14th century: regrouping of the villages close and fortification to Dambach
  • 1444: sit by the Armagnacs
  • 1492: revolt Bundschuh
  • 1525: Revolt of the bumpkins ( war of the peasants )
  • 1622: during the War Thirty Year old, Dambach resists the attacks of Mansfeld but is plundered by the catholic party
  • 1632: the city goes to the Swedes and is saved
  • 1648: Treaties of Westphalia, the Alsace is conquered by the France
  • 1792: repurchase of the Vault Saint-Sebastien by the villagers
  • 1871: Treaty of Frankfurt yielding the Alsace to the Prussia under the statute of Reichsland
  • 1919: Treaty of Versailles - return of the Alsace to the France
  • 1940: annexation of the Alsace to the Nazi Germany
  • 1941 - 1944: enrolements of force in the army Nazi or services back-up troops
  • 1944: release by the American army

Heraldic

Gold ECU to the sinople fir tree supported with dextral by a bear in foot of sand, the whole posed on a terrace of mouths

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the Chapelle Saint-Sebastien is one of the most remarkable monuments of the commune.

  • fortifications built with the XIV° century like three still preserved doors.

  • the village shelters many houses with wood sides making it possible to traverse on a perimeter restricts the history of the techniques of construction of the XIV° to the XX° century.

  • the Town hall of Renaissance style.

  • the fountain of the bear ( Stockbōrne ), octagonal surmounted by a bear, Renaissance style.

  • the Badehaus or Bādhiesel (house of the baths), built at the 17th century among the vineyard, comprised two basins hones some at the ground floor and of the bath-tubs on the floor. The children rachitics were brought in this place to find cure in a water which however does not have any particular quality.

  • the parish church offers a Dit of three dead and the three sharp ones, representation mural showing three young gentlemen challenged in a cemetery by three died, which point out to them the brevity of the life and the importance of the hello of their heart.

  • the vault Notre-Dame

  • the vault Midsummer's Day

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