Hohengœft

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

Geography

Goeftberg, culminating point of the commune with its 397 meters, is the top of the Kochersberg.

Communes bordering

in the North-East: Rangen and Willgottheim
in the east: Wintzenheim-Kochersberg
in south-east: Kuttolsheim and Nordheim
in south-west: Wasselonne
west: Crastatt
in the North-West: Zehnacker

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Splendid lawns pushing on a calcareous ground, it is what you will discover on Gœftberg, plate overhanging the village of Hohengœft. You will also cross the Saint-Wendelin vault there built in 1666 in thanks with God to have saved the village of the Peste, as well as the Chemin of cross going back to 1772. Each year, the Whit Monday, an office of pilgrimage is celebrated in front of the vault. Culminating point of Gœftberg, you will discover the immense antenna (130 m height) of the transmitting radio/TV of Nordheim, being on the hill of Stephansberg. In June, you will have in more the privilege to see flowering full with wild orchises on these lawns.

Personalities related to the commune

Stengel Florent (10/28/1865 - 4/12/1935): resistant restorer during the First World War
Stengel Michel (10/2/1833 - 10/31/1902): soldier at the sides of Napoleon

See too

Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

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

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