Wingen-on-Moder

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

The common one belongs to the Regional natural park of the Vosges of North.

Geography

Wingen-on-Moder is a village located at 10 km in the North-East of Small- thePierre.

The village is located in the high valley of the Moder. Its communal round of applause is next to the departmental limit with the the Moselle.

Communes bordering

Variations and localities

History

At the time of Roman Alsace , Wingen belonged to the city of the tribe of the Triboques. In edge of old the Via Bassoniaca , forest road between the province Belgica and that of the Germania, its fining is marked out of Menhir S: Spitzstein, Drei-Peterstein, and the Breitenstein. At the 18th century, Breitenstein was transformed into cross overhanging the figures of the twelve apostles carved out of the four faces of the stone, from where its name of Pierre of the twelve apostles. Drei-Peterstein marks the limit between the Seigneurie S of Bitche, Lichtenberg and the Small-Pierre.

The first indications on Wingen appear in the Charte S of the Abbaye of Wissembourg in 718, at the time of its donation in favor of the abbey by Chrodoin, noble Franc, and is called then Wingibergus. In 742, one quotes Wigone Monte.

At the 14th century, Wingen was still the theater of many warlike facts, in particular in 1378 at the time of the war which opposed Henri of the Small-Pierre to the counts of Linange. In 1382, the count gives Wingen in stronghold to the emperor. At that time, Wingen is an important crossing point of the Vallée of Moder to the Vallée of Eichel. The emperor installs a tollbooth there. Its demographic importance is established. However its population regresses until the middle of 16th century. After the passage of the troops engaged in the wars of religion, the situation of the village is not brilliant: only two farms seigneuriales, the mill and the church seem to remain at that time.

In 1314, Hugues de Fleckenstein, cousin of Nicolas of the Small-Pierre, is united with other lords of the Low-Alsace and Palatinat, against the town of Strasbourg, whose soldiers burn Wingen, called Winden, the Puberg old man and Speckwiller (two disappeared villages), and Hinsbourg, at the time of their walk towards the Small-Pierre.

As of 1622 and until in 1648, the War Thirty Year old and the Peste make devastations leaving devastated and depopulated Wingen. To attract new inhabitants, the count founds a new forest payment which authorizes the population to collect the deadwood in the forests for the personal needs. He also envisages the delivery on a purely structural gracious timber basis. The inhabitants can also make feed the cattle in the forests.

These advantages attract many inhabitants mainly of origin Suisse: marcaires, guards of herds, employed in the farm seigneuriale of Wingener Hof. The mention of the presence of Pasteur, in 1659, indicates that the village develops again.

The true revival of Wingen will take place thanks to the installation of two glassmakings: that of Neuhütte in 1708 and that of Hochberg in 1715, created by glass Masters of Kahlenberg (Rosteig).

The Glassmaking of Hochberg, built in 1715 under the impulse of the count de Hanau-Lichtenberg and the glassmaker Jean Adam Stenger, is attached to Wingen with the Revolution. In 1816, following a marriage, the glassmaking of Hochberg passes between the hands of the Teutsch family. At that time, the manufacture of window glasses of color is introduced.

The reduction of the forest rights starting from 1860 involves the closing of the factory in 1868.

The glassmakers emigrate towards the Lorraine glass centers or the Westphalia, the Spain or the Mexico.

But there exists, well before these departures, from the migrations towards other glass areas or countries: Murano in Italy, Gijon in the Spanish province of Oviedo, the Canton of Bern or Soleure, the Seine-Maritime, Palatinat, the Bohemia and the North America.

A half century later, Rene Lalique founds the glassmaking of Alsace and thus joins again with the glass tradition of Wingen. The Lalique crystal manufacture, which counts more than 350 employees, exports its products in the whole world.

Another luxury goods industry manufactures covers and other articles silver: it is about Gulden goldsmithery, founded in 1925, by a child of Wingen, Alex Gulden.

The historical events of the 19th century do not affect the commune directly. But Wingen will be the theater of hard combat during the Second world war, which are held between December 1944 and January 1945 within the framework of the Opération Nordwind. Inhabitants of Wingen leave there their life and of many houses were destroyed.

Administration

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Twinning

Services with the population

  • nursery school, primary, college
  • halt-nursery
  • media library
  • local services: post, banks, doctors, dentist, kinesitherapist, pharmacy, ambulances, etc the commune has a rare panel of local services in rural environment and for a village of this importance.

Demography

Provisional population (Annual inquiries of census 2004): 1617 inhabitants

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Edouard Teutsch

Wire of Jacques Henri Teutsch, Edouard (1832-1908) follows studies of right to Paris, but returns in Wingen into 1855 to deal with the glassmaking with his Victor brother. Elected official general adviser in 1869, then in 1871 at the assembly of Bordeaux, it belongs to the deputies protesters, brought together around Leon Gambetta to be opposed to the annexation of Alsace. In 1874, he is elected as appointed protester with the elections of the Reichstag where he makes, in the presence of Bismarck, a speech which causes an angry outburst. Leaving Berlin definitively, it is withdrawn in France in 1879 to become paymaster with Auch, Mâcon, Épinal, then Nancy where it takes his retirement. To a few hundred meters of the glassmaking and family manor, Edouard Teusch makes arrange a cemetery, which contains a dozen tombs of members of its family, like three tombs of servants.

Rene Lalique

Rene Lalique, born in 1860, was a famous jeweller. He made his studies at the school of decorative Arts of Paris, then at the school of the Art schools in England.

On its return to Paris in 1878, it drew models of jewels for the largest jewellers of the street of Peace, such Cartier, Boucheron, etc

In 1891, it is established on its account. Thanks to its very delicate taste, with its very great artistic imagination, it quickly obtains a great success at the time in particular of the presentations in the living rooms of the “French Artists”.

In 1905, it made build its private mansion and installed its workshops there. Very attracted by nature, it there sought its inspiration and used the most varied matters, such mother-of-pearl, amber, agate, corundum or other hard stones with the translucent nuances which it crimps in enamelled mountings.
Its first creations of glassmaker were bottles of perfume intended for the perfumer “Coty”. They is to realize them that it acquired, in 1909, of the small glassmaking of Combs-the-City.

It is close to the great Lorraine glass centers, in the North of Alsace, with Wingen-on-Moder, which it found important and specialized a labor. In 1919 with leaving the war, the Government seeking to give again life with the industry of these French become again areas, Rene Lalique obtains facilities of establishment on a piece of the national forest.

In 1921, first lit furnace, the Crystal manufacture Lalique which took the name of crystal manufacture of Alsace until 1962, came to ensure, after a 50 years interruption, the continuation of the glass tradition of Wingen-on-Moder.

Marc Lalique

Born in 1900, Marc Lalique, faithful collaborator of his father, had ensured since 1922 the load of the technical realizations of creations of crystal manufacture. Very informed technician, having a perfect knowledge of the effects which it can obtain from the matter, faithful in his creations to the original design particular to the style “Lalique”, it carries out many models which appear among most known of the important current collection. Under its impulse, in spite of certain difficulties, the Lalique crystal will become one of the florets of art glass cutter and the French good taste. Collaborating narrowly with a very qualified personnel and which have like him it love of the trade, it implements unceasingly renewed techniques which allow him daring creations and seeks it of an always improved quality.
Um museum will open in 2009.

Marie-Claude Lalique

The grand-daughter and the girl of these two large artists were high in the worship of the beauty and the passion of work. After having made the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of decorative Arts of Paris, it came to work at the sides of her father. Impregnated traditions of the house, it knows, while preserving them, to give a new impulse to the creation of the models. While remaining faithful to the crystal, it creates jewels, by thinking that it is also important to attempt to imagine sought forms, even sophisticated, to make display of the stones of great value.
To this end, it employed semi-precious stones and enamels for the realization of its works.

Alex Gulden

It is by one beautiful day of 1925 qu' young man a 18 year old, Alex Gulden, decided to found its own business.

Until 1934 it was a company of trade, almost exclusively based on Alsatian hotel customers.

In 1934, under the name of “Manufacture of covers and goldsmithery of Alsace A. Gulden”, its founder crosses a new step by building a workshop of galvanoplasty, polishing and reviving. Covers, the flatware and other articles of table, bought in a rough state among various French estampeurs, could be silver plated and finished in its own workshops.

The company, still extremely modest at that time, counted in addition to its founder, his parents and his wife, two collaborators. The rise was stopped by the war. During the black years, the company lived sparely. Raw material fault, the production was stopped in 1940. A few months later, and until the end of 1944, the small company could remain while silver plating made-to-order of the electric contacts and other parts, on behalf of the Siemens Company which had a subsidiary company with Guebwiller.

January 6th, 1945, at the time of the battle of Wingen, the workshop and the dwelling house were almost completely destroyed.

As of spring 1945, Mr. Gulden, armed with much courage, undertaken to clog the breaches, and towards the end of this same year the production had begun again, at intervals moderated certainly, because the matter was still very rare. But gradually the production developed and, with it, the manpower of the collaborators, which passed from two to ten, then twenty, to exceed about thirty as of the end 1948.

A decisive step was crossed in 1950 with the construction of a hall intended to shelter a workshop of tools and stamping.

The acquisition of the presses and the training of a personnel particularly qualified were certainly not an easy task, but gave to the company a total independence compared to its former estampeurs, just as on the level of the creation and manufacture of its own models. In parallel the customers developed and the company could cut a good place on the national plan and even beyond our borders, by in particular creating branches in Strasbourg and Paris, and by diversifying its production schedule.

Ets Gulden organize the every years in August of the days open doors of their factory for the tourists and the amateurs.

See too

External bonds

  • Official site of the commune
  • Wingen-on-Moder on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Wingen-on-Moder on the site of INSEE
  • Localization of Wingen-on-Moder on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Wingen-on-Moder on Mapquest
  • On the glassmakings on the country on the small-stone
  • Crystal manufacture LALIQUE

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