Pfetterhouse

Pfetterhouse is a common French, located in the department of the Haut-Rhin and the area Alsace. The inhabitant (E) S of Pfetterhouse are called the " Pfetterhousien () s". The emblem of the village is the " schneegans" , the snow goose.

Origin of the name of the village

The mention the oldest found to date date of 732 after JC and is resulting from the Latin language: “Petrosa” (the stony way). According to the archeologist Karl Gutmann, this name would come owing to the fact that one used stone S of a career of Pfetterhouse to build a Roman station in the vicinity. XVIIe century at 1919 one finds the term German “Pfetterhausen” (- hausen being a suffix present in many names of Alsatian villages) before reading “Perugia” then, finally, “Pfetterhouse”.

Geography

Pfetterhouse is with the foot of the the Alsatian Jura, with the limits of the Suisse and the Territoire of Belfort. This village is surrounded by the villages of Réchésy, Seppois-le-Bas, Seppois-le-Haut, Mooslargue and Courtavon in its French part; by Bonfol and Beurnevésin in its Swiss part.

History

Before the First World War of 1914-1918, one found a factory of Horlogerie in Pfetterhouse, and which attracted many residents. But this one did not resist the economic routs generated by the two successive world wars.

The territory of the commune is the seat of the Borne of the Three Powers, limits out of stone which marked division France - Germany - Suisse up to 1919. This terminal gave to the village a certain international repute. Indeed, of many shops of photographers had been born close to this terminal, where the visitors could be made draw the portrait, and to send the photograph in the form of postcard to their close relations. During the First World War, the French soldiers had occupied the border post and the border with the Suisse was closed. Many German military operations had taken place in the forest located of each with dimensions of the border, to prevent the clandestine desertions the Alsatian ones bound for Switzerland. One even finds there still many traces of points of impact of shell.

A railway Dannemarie - Porrentruy served Pfetterhouse, but for lack of travellers and industrial products to transport, the line was gradually closed in the Sixties. There remains today the Swiss part of the line, which serves Porrentruy - Bonfol, mainly to transport wood. One can still see today the Station of Pfetterhouse, which was rehabilitated in residences, with on its pediment the typical blue plate of the SNCF, bearing the name of the village.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Haut-Rhin

External bonds

Internet site of the village: * Pfetterhouse on the site of the national geographical Institute
Pfetterhouse on the site of INSEE
Pfetterhouse on the site of Quid
Localization of Pfetterhouse on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Pfetterhouse on Mapquest

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