Wingersheim

Wingersheim is a common French, located at the North-West of Strasbourg, in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace. Its inhabitants is called Wingersheimois.

Geography

The commune of Wingersheim is located at the North-eastern limit of Kochersberg not far from Brumath and of Mommenheim. The communal round of applause is crossed to North by the Canal of the Marne in the Rhine and the Zorn.

History

The oldest traces of human occupation on the round of applause of Wingersheim go back to one period of the age of the bronzes final . Tombs punts of incineration, discovered at the beginning of the XXe century in the Lehmann sand pit, make it possible to go back this presence to Protoceltes between 1000 and 900 years before Jesus-Christ. The funerary rite of these tribes consisted in incinerating the late ones on one to rough-hew, to collect ashes in small biconical ceramics goblets with high collar, to place these goblets in another larger biconical vase, to cover this last of a lid then to hide it in open ground. One could thus find several vases of all sizes in the same burial.

Administration

Demography

provisional population for 2004: 1.105

Places and monuments

Church Saint Nicolas : the turn-bell-tower of XIIIe century with roof as a bâtière sheltered the chorus of the first two churches. New chorus and nave built in 1768 and blessing of the carcass work by the Canon Jean-Georges Loyson (grandson of Jean Loyson) on December 27th, 1768.

Organ of 1782 by the factor Nicolas Tollay. It is only the Alsatian Orgue coming from this Lorraine Organ builder, which makes its regional celebrity.

Synagog of 1875.

Town hall of 1790 with stage with half-timbering and roof with the Mansart.

War memorial the inaugurated on July 11th, 1920.

Virgin with the Child (year 2004), sculpture in sandstone of the Vosges de Christian Fuchs of Niederhaslach.

Personalities related to the commune

Jean Loyson born in 1643 in Kirrwiller of a family of salt merchants of the area theSaline ones/Écoutète (Schultheiss) of the community village in 1671/Sparing of the Chapter of the Canons of Neuwiller-les-Saverne/by letters patent of July 15th, 1697, provided with the load of Prosecutor of King Louis XIV close to Large Bailliage de Haguenau. Deceased on May 12th, 1706 at the 63 years age and buried in Wingersheim (funerary plate on a wall of the tower of the bell-tower). The body of late was buried under a flagstone carrying number 1, inside the second church, in front of the chorus, between the two side furnace bridges. To have had the privilege to be buried in the church, Jean Loyson was certainly a benefactor. The archaîque German epitaph of the beginning of the 18th century can summarize " thus; 12 years, procurator of Large Bailliage de Haguenau/20 years, treasurer of collegial of Neuwiller/30 years, Schultheiss de Wingersheim; Anna SCHOTT its widow, Father Nicolas Loyson of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit), Laurent lawyer at the Court of Colmar, Christian and Salome minors with Laurent LOYSON, Marie and Marguerite moniales with co. Marguerite Strasbourg, stone set up in the honor of their father bien-aimé".

Alain Bashung spent the first years of its youth in the farm known as " “S Low” it hungs" (6, rue de la Libération) in his/her adoptive grandmother (paternal side) Elisabeth Battenstein, born the 4/26/1897 with Düsseldorf.

See too

Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

the town hall of Wingersheim on the site the Community of Communes of the Country of Zorn
the Community of Communes of the Country of Zorn
Official site of the commune of Wingersheim
nonofficial Site of the commune of Wingersheim
Wingersheim on the site of the national geographical Institute
Wingersheim on the site of INSEE
Wingersheim on the site of Quid
Localization of Wingersheim on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Wingersheim on Mapquest

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