Friedolsheim

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

History

The origins of the village go back to Antiquity; one found abundant Gallo-Roman vestiges and traces of Roman way dating from IIe century, but the first hard copy of Friedolsheim goes up with 770. The abbey of Fulda had its goods there. In 826, the village was called Friedesheim and belonged to the Grafschaftsdörfer. The old imperial village belonged to the baillage of Kochersberg and constituted an undivided possession managed jointly by the bishop of Strasbourg and the Emperor. Half of this last was acquired by the town of Strasbourg in 1496. Friedolsheim was an appendix of Maennolsheim until in 1343. From this year, the village became a Kaplanei vicariate, depend on the rural Chapitre of Betbur. In 1803, the village becomes an autonomous parish.

The Saint-Denis church

The parish church, devoted to Denis saint, was built in 1812 and shelters baptismal funds going back to 1652.
The bell-tower would shelter a bell of Matthieu Edel going back to 1779.

The convent and the old boarding school

The convent is inhabited by the Sisters of Divine Providence of Saint-Jean-of-Bassel. Until in the years 1960, the Sisters held a domestic university for young girls and exempted the courses of teaching until the class of 6th. Many pupils were originating in Lorraine and continued their studies as interns with the boarding school.

The Saint-Leger vault

The vault of Friedolsheim, with approximately a kilometer in the north of the village, is an old place of pilgrimage devoted to Leger saint. The date of exact construction is not known but it dates without any doubt from the beginning from the 18th century. It sheltered a statue of holy Leger dating from second half of the XVIIIe century but for safety reasons, it was deposited in another place and is replaced by a statue of holy Louis de Gonzague. It also sheltered ex-votos XVIIe century deposited with the wire of time by the pilgrims honouring holy Leger (traditionally called upon against the diseases of the sight and the convulsions) but the major part was plundered because the vault was put at bag at the end of the Second War.

Crosses and bildstocks

One counts a Latin cross and five bildstocks with Friedolsheim. One of these bildstocks is located at a few meters of the Saint-Leger vault. He was high in 1700 in the honor of the marriage of Schultheiss de Friedolsheim Hans Fritsch and which carries the inscription: Disen Bild/stock hat/lassen auf/richten H/ans Fritsh/Schultzhe/is zu Fridol/sheim und/Magdalena/sein Hausf/raw zu DER/hechste eh/ren Gottes/1700.

Anecdote

In top of the village, with the Sternenberg locality (to a hundred meters of the vault), on the road connecting Altenheim to Sæssolsheim, there exists a splendid point of view overhanging all the valley of Zorn de Saverne with Hochfelden. According to certain sources, it is from there that the emperor Guillaume II observed the military operations which proceeded there.

One can see there some old bodies of farm and the half-timbered houses. Oldest go back to 1628.

Geography

Friedolsheim is a small village of Back-Kochersberg between the foot of the Vosges and the plain of Alsace with 12km of Saverne and 27km of Strasbourg. The communes bordering are:

in north: Littenheim
in the south: Landersheim and Maennolsheim
in the east: Sæssolsheim
in the west: Altenheim and Wolschheim

Heiligengraben is the river which runs in Friedolsheim. It takes its source in the north of the village, the round of applause Steiel, is joined by some brooks coming from Wolschheim, by Gaensbach coming from Kleingoeft, Rosslaufgraben coming from Saessolsheim, and is thrown finally in Rohrbach with Landersheim (which will join the Zorn with Hochfelden). It is interesting to note that Friedolsheim (which belongs to the canton of Hochfelden), made " frontière" with the cantons of Saverne (Littenheim, Altenheim, Wolschheim, Maennolsheim) and of Marmoutier (Landersheim), and consequently, also between the districts of Saverne (cantons of Saverne and Marmoutier) and of Strasbourg-Countryside (Canton of Hochfelden).

Administration

Demography

provisional population for 2005: 231

Personalities related to the commune

Laurent Roos , priest-poet, born in Friedolsheim on June 10th, 1801 and deceased in Switzerland with Seignelégier on October 31st, 1848.

See too

Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

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

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