Lapoutroie

Lapoutroie is a common French, located in the department of the Haut-Rhin and the area Alsace.

Its inhabitants names Lapoutroyen () S.

Geography

Located in the department of the Haut-Rhin between Vineyard and Mountain, Lapoutroie is to 18 km in the North-East of Colmar. Lapoutroie is the place chief of the " canton of Lapoutroie" who includes/understands the communes of Fréland, Labaroche, the Catch and Orbey also called " canton vert" because of abundance of the meadows and forests which surround the commune. The surface of the commune is of 2135 hectares, including 1000 ha of forest and 900 ha of meadow and pasture. Altitude varies from 330 to 1228 meters for the culminating point which is with the Brézouard.

Places and variations

Hachimette, a large hamlet
Ribeaugoutte
Kermodé
Mérelles

Origin of the name

The name would come under any reserve from the local novel breadth louse rây which wants to say, the bad drain, or perhaps of former French, beam, mare, and of the collective suffix - eta. But actually the origin of the name remains dubious. One is unaware of if the name of the village east of Germanic or Romance origin. Several assumptions were advanced on the origin of the name of the village. Certain etymologists think, if a Romance origin is admitted, that the name has a relationship with the old Roman road which crossed the commune.

History

The first mention of the village dates from the year 1090. It then formed part of the seigniory of Hohnack and the bailliage of the Valley of Orbey, located close to Labaroche and pertaining to the count of Eguisheim. Lapoutroie becomes the administrative center of the bailliage. The Provost of the valley, charged to return justice resides at it. With the XIIe century the village of Lapoutroie is quoted under the name of Sconerloch as a document raises it of the convent of Holy Cross been based by the Pape Leon IX. Of 1348 with 1536 Lapoutroie belongs to the seigniory of Ribeaupierre and the representative of the seigniory lived in the places, and one found there also a prison and a court. The criminals were hung in Hachimette and the gibet was on pre opposite the Chapelle. The inhabitants paid besides the Dîme S and others Redevance S with the Couvent Holy Cross whose Abbesse named the Curé of the Paroisse. After the disappearance of the convent the Dîme passes to the town of Colmar which sold in 1568 its rights to the Abbaye of Pairis. The first inhabitants of the commune were probably coalmen who had fixed themselves along the road. Then the village changes owner. The village is devastated during the Guerre thirty year old. Towards 1632 one counted 206 more habiatnts, then in 1681 he remained nothing any more but 36 occupants and 30 houses. In Hachimette, the hamlet of Lapoutroie, it restaio more that 10 inhabitants and 8 houses, with the Drop 9 inhabitants and 5 houses and in Ribeaugoutte 27 inhabitants distributed in 22 houses. The same year the hamlet of Ribeaugoutte was practically decimated by a fire which carried 18 houses. After the Treated of Westphalia in 1648, the lords of Hohnack, initially vassal of Habsbourg, are placed under the suzerainty of the King of France. In 1750 a fire destroys the borough and the church. Lapoutroie becomes the place chief of the canton in 1796. Under the German mode of 1871, the village is called Schnierlach . During the war 1914 - 1918, the commune is used as a basis for the German troops which fight with Head-of-False. When it is integrated into the Germany by the IIIe Reich, its men are enlisted of force in the Wehrmacht. the commune is released in December 1944. The textile factories have since missing and agriculture declined. Today, the village of Lapoutroie turns to tourism.

Places and monuments

Holy-Odile church

St. Lawrence vault

Museum of brandies

Folded

The way of the Romans

Brézouard

The head of the Forgeries

Administration

Demography

Personalities related to the commune

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