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

Geography

Armoirie de Minversheim

" Of azure to the figure four posed in bande". The figure four comes from a pun on the Alsatian name of the " commune; Men' fer' she"; iron = vier= 4.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Traditional church with the gate gone back to 1765, renovated at the 19th century.

Personalities related to the commune

Etschhausen, a disappeared village

This village was located at 1.3 kilometers in the South of Minversheim, between the road of Mommenheim and the Landgraben brook.

Etschhausen which was a district dîmière with whole share had a vault Saint Nicolas, subsidiary of Minversheim in 1763; and in 1762, the priest touched 106 more guilders of dîme of the old bench. However the last mentions of village go back to 1300,1308,1349 and 1360 but perhaps he is not inhabited already more.

The vault which appears as a ruin on the chart of Cassini of the 18th century, does not exist today any more. But the stone statue of Hilaire Saint, placed at the top of the gate of the church of Minversheim comes from this vault.

This locality gave various names of localities:

- Etschhauser Weg (Way of E.)

- Etschhauser Feld (Field of E.)

- Etschhauser Pfad (Path of E.)

sources: SHASE book I-III, 1962 texts of A. Humm and A. Wollbrett.

See too

  • Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

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

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