Kingersheim

Kingersheim is a common French located in the northern suburbs of Mulhouse. It belongs to the department Haut-Rhin and area Alsace. Of a tiny village a few centuries ago, Kingersheim became the eighth commune of Haut-Rhin. Very residential, it offers nevertheless unexpected visions.

Its inhabitants is called Kingersheimois and Kingersheimoises.

Geography

Kingersheim is located in the plain of Alsace. The city thus does not have almost reliefs. She knows a strong increase in her population since 1999, due to the proximity of Mulhouse. The statistics count on 14.000 inhabitants in 2008. “Wedged” between Wittenheim and Mulhouse, sudden Kingersheim of the important automobile transits in particular on the level of Kaligone (2nd retail park of Alsace). The city waits impatiently been able of line 1 of the Tramway of Mulhouse which must be prolonged while crossing the city, then to join Wittenheim as of 2010. Since ten years, the city does not cease gaining in urban area with in particular several poles of constructions of habitats of the individual types or HLM.

History

Kingersheim appears for the first time in 1195 pennies the denomination of Kemingsen and owes its origin a legend, with a hunting lodge probably set up in the historical center. The chronicle of Schoenensteinbach speaks about the state of the parishes about Wittenheim and Kingersheim during the XII and XIIe century. this chronicle reports that in the year 1199, the Lüthold bishop of Basle, orders that the vault of Kinsgersheim is attached to the parish of Wittenheim. In 1202, the Innocent pope III, confirmed the letters of ordinance of the two bishops. In 1216, the abbey of Neuwiller made gift to the convent of Schoenensteibach of a relic of Adelphe Saint who was deposited in the vault of Kingersheim.

The noble ones of Hus Wittenheim were the lords as of XIVe century and, thereafter, their successors, the noble ones of Andlau. Nompbreux titles or charters of nomination were written, among which the title of 1351. It is written there that Therry de Hust is invested quarter of the castle of Wittenheim as well as village of Kingersheim. The village of Wittenheim formerly constituted in the feudal mode the body of a borough having received a charter which gave to the lords the right to govern several villages inter alia that of Kingersheim. In 1473, Lazare d' Andlau was in his invested turn of the village of Kingersheim by Pierre de Hagenbach, large baillif de Charles the bold one. Lazare had of his marriage with Judith of ramstein a son named Louis (1474-1509). Knight, he was the founder of the branch of Andlau de Kingersheim.

The autonomy of the village thus appears at the end of XVe century. Louis d' Andlau de Kingersheim was the first of Andlau to build the castle of Kingersheim and to live there.

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