Wolfisheim

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

Geography

History

Wolfisheim, the den of the wolf Located to the doors of Strasbourg, in edge of the Beetle, the commune of Wolfisheim, belongs to the oldest villages of Alsace. It is located at the origin with the accesses of a Celtic way connecting, by the valley of the Beetle, the commune of Osthoffen at the town of Strasbourg.

While skirting the tow path of the channel of the Beetle, the Sunday walker passing near the castle, of the mill and the church, can think what was the past of these buildings, formerly center of the life of our city, today model favorites of so much of painters. The bell-tower proudly raises its ancestral past above the red tiled roofs, and thus gives a note of serenity to the traditionally calm and quiet atmosphere of Wolfisheim.

In dialect " WOLFZE" meant: Heim of WOLFO. WOLFO could be the chief of a Celtic tribe which had been installed on an arm of the Beetle, melting the village.

It is noted that the " root; WOLF" is concerned in the successive denominations. That explains the configuration of the mantrap in the armorial bearings of Wolfisheim.

The history of our village is closely related to the birth of Alsace. Celts, Romans, Francs, Alamans and Gaulois mark Wolfisheim of their print. The population hitherto pagan will become Christian as from the 6th century. One of the first documents written and going back to 717 fact mention of the abbey of Etienne Saint, owner of goods with Wolfisheim.

To the 13th century, Wolfisheim belongs to évêché of Metz. It is during the fights of the population against the bishop of Metz, that a fire destroyed the commune (1262). In 1315, one notes a Jean de Wolfisheim, Maire of Strasbourg.

Our commune which belongs to Schafrit de Leyningen is yielded of half to the Museler family, with which we owe the castle of Wolfisheim, whose ruins still existed at the 18th century. In 1534, the count Philippe Hanau de Lichtenberg repurchases the village, which is then dependant on Bouxwiller. He passes under the domination of the Bitche family Two more bridges before returning in Hanau in 1570.

In 1685, a fire destroyed, once more, part of the village. A bee-keeper was the cause.

The birth of the Commune to the administrative direction of the term was done at the end of the 18th century, during the French revolution.

In 1895, one inaugurates the first tram line connecting the station of Strasbourg to Breuschwickersheim, passing by Wolfisheim. The " tram" circulated until 1959. Since this time, our village is not any more " at the end of the monde" , a bringing together was created by this means of transport. Wasn't this there the first stake of the fastening of Wolfisheim at the Urban community of Strasbourg (CUS) which took place in 1968?

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

See too

  • Common of the Low-Rhine

External bonds

  • Wolfisheim on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Wolfisheim on the site of INSEE
  • Wolfisheim on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Wolfisheim on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Wolfisheim on Mapquest
  • the site of the town hall

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