Nicolás Flamel

Fegersheim is a common French, located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace. " Feg" is a familiar name to indicate the city.

Geography

Fegersheim is located at 12 km in the South of Strasbourg, between the Andlau, the Scheer and the Ill.

History

The discovery of tombs dating from IIIe century before J-C, attests an occupation of the site as of the Celtic time. Vergersheim is quoted for the first time at XIe century, the convent of the bénédictines of Eschau having an important property there. Fegersheim and its Ohnheim appendix belong successively like episcopal stronghold to Ochsenstein, Hanau-Lichtenberg and Rathsamhausen which are lords until the Revolution. In 1680, the court of the Sun king, follow-up of Boss-suet and Mrs. de Maintenon, remains in Fegersheim, where it awaits Marie Christine of Bavaria, future wife of the Large Dolphin.

They are five public rejoicing and feastdays dazzling. Traditionally agricultural village, Fegersheim becomes an increasingly gravitational center at the end of the 19th century. In 1933 settles there the first company, Cajofé, a factory of toys. In 1962, the municipality arranges one of the first industrial parks of the sector to provide employment on the spot. This zone did not cease developing since this time. With construction, proximity has, of the by-pass Strasbourg and the accessibility, the future should make it possible the town of continue within the urban community of Strasbourg…

Administration

Demography

provisional population in 2004: 4.846

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

  • Dynasty of the merchants of art Wildenstein: Nathan Wildenstein (Fegersheim 11/11/1851 - 1934), the grandfather, Georges Wildenstein (1892-1963), the father, and Daniel Wildenstein the son

See too

  • Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

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

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