Siewiller

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

Geography

Heraldic

Blasonnement is the following: half-compartment: with the first of sand to the bicephalous money eagle issuant, beakful of gold and lampassée of mouths, with the second half-compartment with the one of mouths to the money rafter and both of gold .

History

Administration

Demography

provisional population for 2005: 411

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Monseigneur Henri Alfred Hoffmann bishop of Djibouti, born on September 24th, 1909 in Siewiller. It enters to the convent of the Capucins to Koenigshoffen and reads its first mass with Siewiller in 1936. He is then missionary of 1936 to 1944 with Madagascar and in Somalia. It is ordered bishop in the cathedral of Strasbourg on August 4th, 1957. He is the first bishop of Djibouti, and he made there build a cathedral. He dies suddenly in Paris in XIVe district on March 23rd, 1979. He is buried in the church Sainte Dorothée de Siewiller.

See too

  • Common of the Low-Rhine
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