Munster (Haut-Rhin)

See also: Munster

Munster is a Commune Frenchwoman, located in the Département of Haut-Rhin and the area Alsace.

Its inhabitants is called the Munstériens and the Munstériennes .

Located in the valley of the Fecht this village was a long time a center of industry Textile until the moment when the crisis struck this activity.

The agricultural activity remains always sharp by the production of famous the cheese of Munster.

The forestry development also constitutes an always flourishing activity.

Moreover the Tourisme develops to with it because of the many paths of Randonnée which traverse the surroundings.

Geography

In the east, the valley leads to Gunsbach, fatherland of Doctor Albert Schweitzer, then on Colmar and the plain of Alsace.

In the west, the valley is barred by the peak of the the Vosges and by the tops of the Hohneck and the Rothenbachkopf.

One can reach has Munster by borrowing D417 since Colmar.

The valley of Munster and the tradition marcaire

The valley of Munster offers all the aspects of a true “Land EM Land” (country in the country). Indeed it is characterized and distinguished rather clearly from the remainder of the Alsace by its Alpine aspect which was worth the nickname of Kleini Schwitz to him (small Suisse). The form of the dialect Alsacien spoken is often difficult to include/understand for which comes from another even neighbouring area.

What makes really the originality of the valley they are the Malker or Marcaire S, whose tradition goes back to IXe century. They are farmers of high mountain, who modelled the landscape of thatches and which transformed by their hard labor this Alsatian ground corner. The marcaire which spends the winter in the valley, goes up with its herd of bovines on the mountain pastures at the end of May. There will remain all the summer there, and will go down again only after the Saint-Michel, when the storms and the gusts of wind of autumn oblige it to leave its marcairie and its dear mountains. Its principal occupation consists of the manufacture of the Fromage of Munster

History

The name of Munster comes from the word " Monastère" , the city finding its origin in the creation of a Abbey Benedictine E built in 660 and dedicated to Holy Gregoire, the Abbey of Munster.

Surrounded by Rampart S in 1308, it joins other cities to found the Décapole in 1354.

To the XVIe century the city passes to the Réforme.

The Guerre Thirty Year old devastated all the surroundings of 1618 with 1648 before Catholique S and Protesting S is not recognized mutually.

The abbey of Munster is closed in 1791.

All the area cruelly suffered from the First World War and the Second world war (Munster is released the February 5th 1945). The town of Munster was destroyed to 85% at the time of the First World War.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • ruins of the old founded abbey bénédicine Saint-Gregoire towards 660. The remaining arcades date from the 17th century.

  • the Town hall (1550).
  • the Heraldic Lion (1576) on the fountain of the place of the market.
  • the building of the Laub builds between 1867 and 1869 (with resumption of the elements of old Laube, meeting room of the council of the valley and the town of Munster and market of market).
  • the Protestant Church néo-Romance built spring 1868 at December 1873, and inaugurated on January 1st 1874. Architect: Louis-Frederic de Rutté.
  • the Catholic church : Protestant woman of 1553 to 1685, then simultaneum of 1685 to 1873, it was increased and renovated at the end of the 19th century.

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