Village-Nine

Village-Nine is a common department of the Haut-Rhin, in the area Alsace, in France, located at approximately 27 km in the south-east of Mulhouse. Its inhabitants is called the Villageneuvois .

Geography

Located in edge of the the Rhine, there even where occurs the Grand channel of Alsace and where the Palmrain was built, Pont connecting the south of the Département of Haut-Rhin to the Pays of Bade, Village-Nine is in the middle of the Région of the Three Borders, with 3 kilometers of Basle in Suisse and with less than 10 kilometers of Lörrach in Germany.

This exceptional geographical location is consolidated by the proximity of important highway infrastructures (A35 French side and A5 German side), air (airport of Basle-Mulhouse), railway (Basle-Strasbourg line) and harbor (Rhenish Port of Huningue).

Part of the territory of Village-Nine is also a Natural reserve: the Natural reserve of the small Alsatian Camargue

History

In 1684, a royal decree (after the fastening of the Alsace in France by the Treated of Westphalia), imposes the transfer of the village of Large Huningue towards old a island of the the Rhine baptized initially “New Borough of Aoust” then in 1704, “Village-Nine”.

Culture

The asparaguses, Village-nine is indeed recognized nationally for its asparaguses which make him honor in Alsace.L' asparagus everywhere is to date, the floret of the market gardening of village-nine, the brotherhood of asparaguses, partly made up of restorers and of market-gardeners, the day in 1985 with an aim saw of promoting this culture, the culture of asparaguses is done starting from a very special instrument, gouges it of curved form is exceptionally right at village-nine, the market-gardener must plant the right gouge in the ground to divide the body of asparagus… {Alex}

Armorial bearings

Herwart, an big family of lords, had Armoiries representing a red Chouette on white zone. The commune of Large Huningue adopted them by reversing the colors: a white owl on bottom rouge' (Of mouths, with the money owl).

Famous characters

the poetess Lina Ritter (1888-1981)

Twinnings

Haagen, Germany
Geaune, Moors, France

Economy

Agriculture, Truck farming.

Until the end of the Sixties, the traditional and dominant activity was the market-gardening production whose more than 60% towards Basle within the framework of a free-Switzerland convention of 1938 which granted the benefit, in some is currently exported limiting, of the exemption from customs duties for the local products exported on the market bâlois. And which does not know famous the Asperge S of Village-Nine collected in the sandy ground of the soil which attracts many and remote customers in the eight restaurants only account the commune.

various Industries.

It is towards 1970 that the local economic activity knew an important transformation with the establishment, in a industrial Park managed with the “SIPES of the three borders” which amalgamated in 2001 with the “district of the three borders” to become the community of communes of the Three Borders, of many industrial companies which employ at Village-Nine even approximately 1000 people whereas the local population was established with 3157 inhabitants with the last general census of 1999.

The coexistence of these new industrial activities and the traditional market-gardening activities constitutes the major asset of Village-Nine for the present and especially for the future. The maintenance of vast market-gardening spaces in the agglomeration even of its periphery where is also the Natural reserve of the small Alsatian Camargue, works the local framework of life and attracts a population which seeks to be established in a preserved environment, in the vicinity however industrial urban centres.

Administration

|- | colspan=" 3" align=" center" | Les data former to 1788 is not yet connues. |- | align=right| 1788 || Mr. Peter Moser || |- | align=right| 1790 || Mr. the USSR Ritter || |- | align=right| 1791 || Mr. Billion || |- | align=right| 1793 || Mr. Peter Moser || |- | align=right| 1805 || Mr. Blaise Mackeres || |- | align=right| 1807 || Mr. Barbe || |- | align=right| 1811 || Mr. Philippe Jacques Weiss || |- | align=right| 1813 || Mr. Blaise Mackeres || |- | align=right| 1814 || Mr. Blaise Mackeres || |- | align=right| 1816 || Mr. Meisburger || |- | align=right| 1816 || Mr. Grund || |- | align=right| 1819 || Mr. Peter Moser || |- | align=right| 1826 || Mr. Johann Salibat || |- | align=right| 1831 || Mr. Johann Kauffmann || |- | align=right| 1842 || Mr. Joh. Bapt. Hoffstetter || |- | align=right| 1850 || Mr. François Boulay || |- | align=right| 1867 || Mr. Joh. Bapt. Dantzer || |- | align=right| 1871 || Mr. Joseph Moser || |- | align=right| 1888 || Mr. Louis Ritter || |- | align=right| 1903 || Mr. Joseph Hartmann || |- | align=right| 1908 || Mr. Gustave Boeglé || |- | align=right| 1914 || Mr. Louis Steiblé || |- | align=right| 1919 || Mr. Philippe Ronis || |- | align=right| 1925 || Mr. Victor Deichtmann || |- | align=right| 1926 || Mr. Louis Hemmerlé || Mayor by interim |- | align=right| 1927 || Mr. Victor Deichtmann || |- | align=right| 1929 || Mr. Eugene Hemmerlé || |- | align=right| 1935 || Mr. Eugene Hemmerlé || |- | align=right| 1940 || Mr. Victor Deichtmann || Mayor of office (Occupation) |- | align=right| 1947 || Mr. Joseph Schneilin || |- | align=right| 1953 || Mr. Joseph Schneilin || |- | align=right| 1959 || Mr. Joseph Schneilin || |- | align=right| 1965 || Mr. Joseph Schneilin || |- | align=right| 1971 || Mr. Joseph Schneilin || |- | align=right| 1977 || Mr. Joseph Schneilin || |- | align=right| 1983 || Mr. Rene Flad || |- | align=right| 1989 || Mr. Rene Flad || |- | align=right| 1995 || Mr. Rene Flad || |- | align=right| March 2001 || Mr. Bernard Tritsch || |}

Demography

provisional population for 2005: 3.444

See too

Common of Haut-Rhin

External bonds

Town hall of Village-Nine, official site.
the brotherhood of asparagus of Village-Nine.
Village-Nine on the site of the national geographical Institute
Village-Nine on the site of INSEE
Village-Nine on the site of Quid
Localization of Village-Nine on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Village-Nine on Mapquest
the class 1965 of Village-Nine, photographs of the class, nursery school, exits, voyages

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