Molsheim

Molsheim is a common French, located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace. The etymology wants that one pronounces Mols-heim .

Its inhabitants is called Molsheimois.

Geography

Molsheim is located at approximately 30 kilometers in the south-west of Strasbourg, at 10 kilometers in the north of Obernai and a little less than 30 kilometers in the south of Saverne, with the outlet of the valley of the Bruche in the plain of Alsace. The culminating point, the Molsheimer Berg , offers a good point of view on the Alsatian plain. To the crossroads of the lines FOR THE THIRD TIME Strasbourg-Molsheim St-Dié and Strasbourg-Molsheim Sélestat , the city was also connected to Saverne via Wasselonne by the railway but the way was closed with the passenger traffic in 1969 then deposited in 1993 (it constitutes today, partly, a green lane opened to the cyclists). Another cycle track skirts the Canal of the Beetle and makes it possible to join Strasbourg with bicycle (20 km from the exit of Molsheim to the entry in Strasbourg).

The road accessibility of Molsheim is ensured via Dorlisheim by the highway A352 coming from Strasbourg the east, by the secondary road 500 with 2x2 ways towards the south in direction of Obernai and Sélestat and by the Trunk road 420 towards the west in direction of the valley of the Beetle towards Schirmeck and Saint-Dié. To north the secondary road 422 connects the city to Saverne. It should be noted that it is also the route followed by the road of wines of Alsace towards Marlenheim.

History

Excavations carried out in 1935, in the north of Molsheim, revealed the existence of many tombs mérovingiennes (VIe - VIIe centuries), along the old Roman way coming from Avolsheim. The first mention of Mollesheim appears only towards 820, in a deed of gift of vines of the Adaloch bishop, in favor of the Chapter of Saint-Thomas.

Because the bishops of Strasbourg had goods there, it resulted from it from the conflicts between them and the Germanic emperors, quarrel which finished in 1308, with the profit of the bishop Jean de Dirpheim. It is him which made increase the first enclosing wall dating from the middle of the 13th century.

The “great century” was the period which followed the Réforme Lutheran. Driven out by the Magistrate of Strasbourg, the canons of the Cathedral found refuge behind the fortifications of Molsheim in 1605. They were preceded by various religious orders: the Jesuits and the Benedictines, as of 1580, the Carthusian monk in 1598, followed by the Capuchins in 1657.

Thus the episcopal city became at the beginning of the 17th century the center of the Counter-Reformation in Low-Alsace. The monks of Molsheim got busy to fight the “new doctrines” by preaching, the teaching and the training of young priests.

The Révolution put an end to the company Ancien Mode and marks the entry of the city in the industrial era (Coulaux workshops). Chief town of district after 1870, Molsheim saw its activities diversifying during the 20th century grace, in particular, with the establishment of the factories of the car manufacturer Ettore Bugatti (1881 - 1947).

; Armorial bearings: Of azure to a gold wheel to the rays of which is attached a naked man of complexion nimbus of gold.

Administration

Twinning

Demography

provisional population for 2005: 9.452

Economy

  • Factory Messier-Bugatti (subsidiary of the Aeronautical Snecma, )

  • Company Mercedes-Benz Molsheim (subsidiary of the Daimler group), specialized in the transformation of industrial vehicles
  • Establishment of the factory Volkswagen - Bugatti for the final assembly of the Veyron
  • Millipore Company, supplier of products and services for biopharmaceutic industry
  • Retail park the reprimands between Molsheim and Dorlisheim with for example a hypermarket Cora, a McDonald or a center car
  • Industry of wood (Feidt Sawmill, Siat-Braun Sawmill).

On the tourist level, Molsheim is one of the stages of the Wine trail of Alsace.

Education

Molsheim has many nursery schools and primary.

Molsheim also has two colleges:

  • College Henri Meck
  • College Rembrandt Bugatti

Moreover, three colleges are located at Molsheim:

  • Henri-Meck College (general and technological)
  • College Louis-Marchal (general, technical, professional and industrial)
  • College Camille Schneider (professional)

Famous characters

Tourist monuments and places

  • Church of the Jesuits, beginning XVIIe century
  • Priory of Chartreuse, 1598
  • Metzig, masonry rebirth built towards 1525 by the corporation of the butchers
  • Door of the Blacksmiths, XIVe century

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