Mietesheim

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

Geography

The village is located at the skirt of forest of Haguenau, in the north of Alsace, on banks of the Zinsel. It is about a village of the plate, with the softened relief, Pays of Hanau.

History

Imperial village, Mietesheim is with the hands of the Landgrave S of Low-Alsace. Traces Neolithic S and Roman be (relief of Mercure) were discovered.

The village has beautiful half-timbered houses, of which one of oldest of Alsace, dating from the 15th century.

Economy

Culture of horseradish

The Horseradish (at the 15th century " raiz extremely " , means " strong root " . The horseradish, of the family of the Crucifère S, is a plant connected with the Moutarde whose French origin is in Alsace, in Mietesheim.

There is nearly 40 years, Georges Urban and Marguerite Schmidt, two children of farmers of the village, decides to create a workshop of horseradish. The essence of their customers was composed then of townsmen because, at this time there, the majority of the peasants grated themselves their horseradish.

Manufacture, when with it, was concentrated over the winter months. An old saying affirmed it: During the months without " r" , the horseradish is bitter .

Technological advances made it possible to circumvent this handicap: as of spring, the roots are stored in cold stores to be transformed during the summer.

A few years later, the company finds its denomination final. Its only competition is foreign. Currently, the factory treats 171 tons of roots per annum. The Alsatian farmers, thirteen on the whole, are not enough to ensure its provisioning. Indeed, the local production is limited to a few 70 tons on an total surface area of eight hectares. Also the factory it is obliged to import a hundred tons of the Pays of Bade and Hungary.

Administration

Worships

In 1807, the principal religious confessions are: Catholic (4%) and Lutheran (95%).

The Temple, after the destruction of the old building at the time of the Bombardment S of 1945, is entirely rebuilt in 1948. It is used for the catholic worship once per annum.

Demography

See too

Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

Mietesheim on the site of INSEE
Localization of Mietesheim on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Mietesheim on Mapquest
Raifalsa, horseradish producer with Miestesheim

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