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

Geography

Communes bordering

History

The village of Landersheim is quoted at the beginning of the XII' century in the “Besitzverzeichnis der Abtei Mauersmllnster” under the denomination “Lantheresheim” (= Wohnsitz of Lanther), then at the XIV' century under the name of “Lantersen”, become “Landersche” in the popular speech. Landersheim belongs to the Middle Ages with the imperial nobility basic Alsace, the “Reichsritterschaft”.

In 1595, the lords of Mittelhausen have half of the locality until their extinction in 1634. They introduced the Réforme into this village, which was attached to the Protestant parish of Zehnacker until 1688. Holzapfel which has half of the village, in common with the noble ones of Landsberg, inherit on behalf of Mitteihausen in 1634. They reintroduce the Catholic religion in 1688. At the end of the XVII' century, it is the Weinemer family, middle-class man of Strasbourg and Colmar, which repurchases the three quarters of the village; the last quarter always belonging to Holzapfel and in 1702, to the heirs to Wangen. This situation lasted until the Revolution. The goods of the family of Wangen, regarded as properties of emigrants, are yielded to the biddings like national goods; middle-class rich person of Strasbourg became the purchasers about it.

A study of J. - M. Boehler on agriculture in Low Alsace classifies Landersheim among the villages whose indigenous population has less grounds in personal property (7% compared with 88% with the privileged people, end XVIIIe century). The village forms today part of the canton of Marmoutier and is one of the smallest communes of the Kochersberg with 132 inhabitants with the census of 1999 for a surface of 210 hectares.

Economy

From an economic standpoint, the weight of Landersheim, in spite of the phenomenon of delocalization of certain industries, remains rather important. The commune accommodates the head office of Adidas Sarragan France which employs 400 people, the hotel complex of the inn of Kochersberg, an travel agency, as well as a company of agricultural work. In spite of the basin of employment existing on the commune, a fifth of the population still saw agriculture, five farms including one specialized in the production of goat's milk cheese, with the old mill, which contributes to make of Landersheim a small rural district.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

  • Mr. Horst Dassler founder of Adidas France, wire of Adi Dassler, founder of Adidas.

  • the abbot Denis Will , priest and politician, it was born in Landersheim on September 8th 1867. It makes its studies with the small seminar of Zillisheim, then with the great seminar of Strasbourg. Ordered priest in 1892, it is named vicar with Bischheim, then in Holy-Madeleine of Mulhouse and is cleaned Hoenheim in 1906. It continues higher learning in Germany and supports a thesis of doctorate in political sciences on the right of coalition in Alsace. It is one of the promoters of the Christian trade unionism in Alsace and was elected appointed with the Reichstag for the district of Strasbourg-Countryside in 1907. He is then elected with the “Reichstag” for the district of Sélestat where he sits at the Committee on Budgets. He dies, cleaned of Hoenheim, in July 1912.

  • Of other monks originating in Landersheim remained in the collective memories. Denis Will, uncle of known named, cleaned Schwenheim, was born in 1830 and died in 1899. Jacques Nonnenmacher, priest of Saessolsheim, was born in 1844 and dies in 1908. The priest Holder, priest refractory with the Revolution, decree with the furnace bridge during the celebration of the holy mass, was off-set with the Ile de Ré.

See too

  • Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

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

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