Obernai

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

The German name - Alsacien which is not official is Oberehnheim-Owernah .

Its inhabitants is called Obernois.

Geography

Located at 25 km in the south-west of Strasbourg, Obernai is one of the cities of the plain of Alsace in edge of Piedmont of the Vosges.

Localities and variations

St Ingmar - Green Fields - Southern Europe

Communes bordering

Bernardswiller, Goxwiller, Krautergersheim, Meistratzheim, Niedernai, Heiligenstein, Bischoffsheim, Bœrsch and Ottrott.

History

The area of Obernai, property of the dukes of Alsace at the 7th century, is known to be the birthplace of Sainte Odile, girl of Etichon-Adalric and future owner of the Alsace. The name of Obernai appears towards 1240, when the borough reaches the statute of city under the supervision of the family of Hohenstaufen.

The city thrives at that time. To secure covetousnesses, it becomes member of the Décapole in 1354, league of mutual aid of ten imperial cities of Alsace. The city reaches its apogee at the 15th century and 16th century.

The Guerre Thirty Year old makes devastations in the city, which is occupied by the imperial ones, then by the Swedish.

The city is held to ransom and yielded to the France in 1679. After this period, the city finds a certain prosperity but without finding its power of antan.

The city is annexed, as the remainder of the Alsace, with the Germany in 1871, before returning to the France in 1918.

Administration

Demography

Economy

Obernai is an important wine, brewery and tourist center with nearly 8000 employment. Its important industrial site is in particular made up by Hager, Kronenbourg, Triumph, Sobovia, Supra, CMO, Stoeffler, Ebm Papst and Gripple.

Armorial bearings

“Party of mouths and sand to an eagle stitching on the whole. ”

Places and monuments

field of Léonardsau (19th century - beginning of the 20th century): current museum of the horse and the attachment
abbey ruined of Truttenhausen: old convent of the regular canons of Saint-Augustin (15th century), classified with the historic buildings
castle of Gail (1826-1827): current college Freppel
castle of Oberkirch: building rebuilt between 1843 and 1846 preserving characters of a castle extremely older of 16th or century
castle El Biar: building built of 1864 to 1865 on the field of an old mill, Aumuehle, by the Sharp general (1802, 1884); it bears the name of a residential district of Algiers
well to six buckets (1579)
belfry (Kappelturm)
Corn exchange
Romance Maison of the street of the Pilgrims

Personalities related to the commune

Charles Emile Freppel: born in Obernai in 1827, he was appointed with the National Assembly and bishop of Angers. Its heart rests in the right transept of the church of the city, in accordance with its last wills to see this one joining Alsace with the return of the area to France.

See too

Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

Official site of the town of Obernai
Official site of the community of communes of the country of holy Odile
Obernai on the site of the national geographical Institute
Obernai on the site of INSEE
Obernai on the site of Quid
Localization of Obernai on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Obernai on Mapquest
Visit in photographs of Obernai
Site of the vocational school Paul Emile Victor
Site of the Local Public corporation of Agricultural Teaching and Professional training of the Low-Rhine

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