Pulversheim

Pulversheim is a common French located in the northern suburbs of Mulhouse. It belongs to the department Haut-Rhin and area Alsace.

Its inhabitants is called Pulversheimois and Pulversheimoises.

Geography

- The commune of Pulversheim, located at the center of the Potassic Basin, currently counts 2900 inhabitants. Its round of applause extends on 856 hectares. Belonging to the canton of Ensisheim and the district of Guebwiller, Pulversheim was early marked by the exploitation of the potash which largely contributed to the development of the village. With the opening of the Rodolphe mine, in 1913, the population counts 260 inhabitants, 675 in 1936 and this growth continued to reach 2200 inhabitants in 1973.

- With its adhesion at the community of the Mulhousian agglomeration South-Alsace (CAMSA) and its strategic situation in the center of the department, the commune is confronted with new territorial stakes. In spite of the development of town planning, zones of activities, the village remains largely dominated by agricultural natural spaces, forests, orchards, spaces, the Thur river and its marshes in the North-West of the commune. Near the road main roads, restaurants, trade of proximity, an exceptional sports complex, écomusée, make of Pulversheim a very gravitational village.

History

Short history

The village entered the history at the 8th century, under its primitive name Wolfrigesheim or Wolfriegeshaim its orthography underwent during the centuries of many changes. Etymologiquement the genetic part comes from the Gothic wulf or Wolf , (syllable of the name which one finds in the name of many localities). An outline of the current orthography appears as of the 14th century Bulffersheim (1369) and (1506) Wulfersheim (1544) then Pulversheim (1725). With time the malicious wolves ( wulf , Wolf ) were transferred in bird, cuckoo, messenger of spring. The situation of Pulversheim on an old Celtic way supported the passage of the tribes towards the west. The successors of Clovis created the duchy of Alsace and increased their authority on our area, having grounds going of Sundgau to Seltz. Under the Carolingians, Pulversheim depends on Sundgau and the bishop on Basle. The revolution, by creating new administrative divisions, makes belong the commune of Pulversheim to the department of Haut-Rhin, the district of Colmar and the canton of Ensisheim.

Old agricultural village in a modern city

As of its origin the village has an agricultural vocation. The inhabitants are poor and for almost the whole worked as logger or day laborer. Between 1790 and 1830, the population passes from 150 inhabitants to 347. The demography of the village falls as from 1870, and counts 280 inhabitants in 1885. The discovery of the potassic layer, its introduction at the beginning of the 20th century, caused in the villages located in the perimeter of the potassic basin whose Pulversheim is the center, a total upheaval and a fast transformation of their economic, social and cultural structure. From 250 inhabitants in 1920, the population passes to 376 in 1930. Thanks to the enlarging of the mining city, the population progresses quickly: 1.000 inhabitants in 1946; 2.292 with the census of March 1999 and 2.917 with the census complementary to 2005. The economic reconversion of the potassic basin directs today the active population towards Automobile industrial sites of the company the “Peugeot”, towards the chemical and pharmacological companies, in particular in Switzerland. After having developed the intercommunality by melting the community of commune of the Potassic Basin, Pulversheim and the majority of the communes bordering joined in January 2004 the community of Mulhousian agglomeration South-Alsace (CAMSA).

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Bioscope (Ungersheim)
Écomusée of Alsace (Ungersheim)

Personalities related to the commune

See too

Common of Haut-Rhin

External bonds

Pulversheim on the site of the national geographical Institute
Pulversheim on the site of INSEE
Pulversheim on the site of Quid
Localization of Pulversheim on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Pulversheim on Mapquest

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