Philippsbourg

Philippsbourg ( German Philippsburg in ) is a common French, located in the department of the the Moselle and the area Lorraine. The Village belongs to the Regional natural park of the Vosges of North and of the basin of life of the Moselle-is.

Geography

In the middle of the country covered, in a broken Landscape strewn with sproutings of sandstone, the Village of Philippsbourg developed along the Route of Bitche with Haguenau, just with the borders of the Alsace. The Village and its variations are located mainly in the Vallée Falkensteinerbach, opening the Pays of Bitche towards the Alsace. The River to the Rive S escarpées is stretched through large the domanial Forêt of Bannstein.

characteristic Village-street, Philippsbourg is dominated by the high silhouette of the Protestant church. The Village still preserves some Maison S old, including one very long firm of 1812.

Variations and localities

The variations of the Village many, are reduced to some rare Maison S:

Year der Strasse date of 1840.
Hanau of 1861.

Falkenstein , Castle quoted as of 1127 and destroyed at the 17th century.
Helfenstein , Castle already destroyed in 1437.
Kachler of 1850.
Leitzelthal , mentioned to the 14th century, belongs to the seigniory of Falkenstein.
Lieschbach is already named in 1170 like Village - Frontière of the seigniory of Bitche.
Mambach is indicated in 1527 like possession of the Abbaye of Sturzelbronn.
Mattenthal of 1863.
Muckenthal of 1795.
Rothenburg , strong Castle dating from the 9th century.
Schlangenthal of 1810.
Schloss , of the beginning of the 17th century.
the forest House of the Schlossberg of 1854.
Unter , of 1860.
Weiherthal of 1898.
Gehrhardt and Reiterbach is of recent origin.

The hamlets of Netzelhof , Katzenthal and Schweizerhof are probably built before 1767.

History

The appendix of Lieschbach mark the limit enters the provinces of the Gaulle Belgium and the Germanie. The territory then forms part of the seigniory of Falkenstein which is sold in 1564 with the counts de Hanau-Lichtenberg. The Village owes its name to the count Philippe IV of Hanau Lichtenberg which made there build a Château in 1606, located on the right Rive of the Falkensteinerbach, in the North-West of the current Agglomération.

In 1606, the Charles IV of Lorraine, lord of Bitche, gives up its rights on the territory in favor of the Hanau-Lichtenberg which join together it with their baillage Lemberg, close to Pirmasens. In 1633, the Château is destroyed by the imperial troops and Lorraine. With the foot of the Château in ruins develops the Village of Philippsbourg, which passes in 1736, with the seigniory of Hanau-Lichtenberg, with the landgrave of Hesse - Darmstadt. The city is besieged and taken in 1688 by Vauban.

With the French revolution, during which the Village is annexed to the France in 1793.

During the Second world war, the Village is evacuated on September 1st 1939 with Saint-Simeux and Sonneville in Charente, the Mairie there being folded up. The Village is bombarded in September 1944 and of January to March 1945. It is released by the American the March 17th 1945.

Worships

Before the Reform, the territory forms an appendix of the Paroisse of Obersteinbach, in the archpriest of the Haut-Haguenau to the diocese of Strasbourg. In 1564, the count Philippe de Hanau-Lichtenberg introduces the Réforme and Philippsbourg becomes branch of the Protestant Paroisse of Offwiller until in 1700, Date to which the Village is set up in Paroisse, before becoming again appendix of the Protestant Paroisse of the Village close to Baerenthal in 1739. The Protestant church is built in 1912 by the German Architecte Arthur Kickton in the style of the Gothic architecture of the Germany of the South. The building has a Porche in frontage and a Toit with very strong slope, which give him a very picturesque kind. This religious situation particular explains the absence of cross of way in these two Village S.

For the catholic , the Village is since 1804 an appendix of the Paroisse of Eguelshardt, with the Diocèse of Metz. The vault Our-Lady-of-Door is built in 1905.

Administration

Demography

The Population doubled between 1801 and 1900, passing from 237 inhabitants with 571. She has remained relatively stable for this period and counts 531 more inhabitants with the Recensement of 1999.

Places and monuments

the vault Our-Lady-of-Doors, dating from the beginning of the 20th century.
the Castle of Falkenstein, built at the beginning of the 12th century to supervise the valley of the Zinsel.
the Castle of Rothenbourg, dating from the 9th century.
ruins of the Castle of Helfenstein, already destroyed in 1437.
the temple protesting, chief of work of the Germanic Architecture , built in 1911.
the Terminal S located on the Round of applause S of Philippsbourg and Eguelshardt, installed in 1606 to delimit the territories of the lords of Lorraine and Hanau-Lichtenberg, classified historic building since the April 9th 1929.
the pond of Hanau, at the edge of which Goethe enjoyed to walk.
the botanical path and forester who allows to discover the slow evolution of a Tourbière and in particular celebrates it carnivorous plant, the Drosera.
the Pottery, presenting the various stages of the Cooking of the objects
the pond of the Lieschbach , which allows a one hour walk within a pleasant and preserved framework.
In edge of the Road of Niederbronn, isolated to a few hundreds from meters only from the Alsace, a firm with side-of-wood is organized around a court closed. The home illustrates well the evolution of the placement of the buildings: the oldest part, at the bottom of the court, dated 1744, has a first level in Maçonnerie and a second level in half-timbering, while the wing in return of square added in 1836 has its principal rough-cast hardcore frontage, the side-of-wood being relegated to the back. In the court, a Hangar is dated 1821 and bears the name of the owners of the time.
innumerable rock, wild and isolated sites, of the Natural reserve of the Peat bogs and the Rocks of Bitche; examples: Falkenberg, Rothenberg, Large and Small Heads of Dog, Geierstein, Kandelfels, Erbsenfels, Waldeck, Kachler, Small-Steinberg, Carlsfels, Schloesschen, Zwillingsfels, Hasselberg, Rothenfels, Sandkopf, Landersberg, Armsberg, Gauchsberg, Luchsfels, Philippsfels, Wildmannsfels…

Armorial bearings

The armorial bearings of the common are of gold to the three rafter S of Gueules accompanied at a peak by a letter P by very the .

The weapons and the initial one are those of Philippe IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg, which is at the origin of construction in 1566 of the Château around whose the Village was formed.

Personalities related to the commune

Delphine Descouvières , person in charge of the tourist office of Philippsbourg.

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