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

Geography

History

A small castle ( eine Bürglin ) of the " von Waltenheim" rose on the hill with the site of current restoring " In Burgritter" , opposite the Romance church. Following a private war ( eine Fehde ) between the town of Strasbourg and the " von Waltenheim" , the castle was destroyed by the troops of Strasbourg in 1365 . This year, " von Waltenheim" , close to the bishop Jean II of Lichtenberg, had ordered to six their servants to go to Strasbourg in order to put fire at it. One of them, after being lodged in an inn of the Saint Nicolas's Day quay, succeeds in setting fire to the stable but was recognized and stopped with three of his/her companions. Condemned to be flarings, the servants flamers perished on roughing-hew it and, in reprisals of their misdeeds, the small castle of Hohatzenheim was dismantled by the Of Strasbourg one.

Administration

Demography

source: Cassini site

Places and monuments

  • Church (XIIe century) of the painful Virgin.

  • Pietà (XVe century?) of the painful Virgin.
  • funerary Stele of Nicolas Blaess to the cemetery. The epitaph conceals two errors:
    • the year 1793 is erroneous because Nicolas Blaess was guillotine in January 1794
    • the executor was not Euloge Schneider because this public prosecutor of the revolutionary Tribunal of the Low-Rhine was stopped in Strasbourg the 25 frimaire of Year II (December 15th, 1793) then transferred to Paris and guillotine 12 germinal from Year II (April 1st, 1794).
  • Tombstone of Wilhelm II von Mittelhausen fixed at a wall external of the sacristy. Wilhelm II resided in its castle of plain ( eine Wasserburg ) of Mittelhausen. With its death in 1472, it was buried in its parish church of Hohatzenheim of which he was a benefactor since he had the privilege to be buried in front of the furnace bridge of saint Antoine (today site of the painful Virgin). The still readable epitaph nowadays is written as follows:
Ass D MCCCCLXXII Am XII Dez Ap (pril) starb DER eren Vest Wilhelm von Mittelhausen dem God gnäd' und barmherzig sey amndt.

Translation:

In the year of the Lord 1472, the 12 of April, died it very honourable Wilhelm von Mittelhausen. That God grants grace to him and mercy. Thus it is.

Personalities related to the commune

Nicolas Blaes, Schultheiss of 1787 to 1792.

See too

  • Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

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

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