Diedendorf

Diedendorf is a commune with 331 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Bas- Rhin in the Alsace region. She is assigned to the district Saverne and the Canton Sarr - Union and member of the Association of Municipalities Alsace Bossue.

Geography

The community Diedendorf is at the upper Saar in western landscape Crooked Alsace, about eight kilometers southwest of Sarre- Union. In the southwest of the municipality Diedendorfs bordering the Moselle department in Lorraine.

Neighboring communities of Diedendorf are Harskirchen in the north, Sarrewerden in the northeast, Wolf churches in the east, the south and Niederstinzel Vibersviller ( point of contact ) and Altwiller in the northwest.

History

A first mention there is from the year 699 as Villa Didinescheaime. Later the place Dedesdorf, Dietendorf and Diedendorff said. In the 14th century there was rampant plague. To 1559 Huguenots were established.

By an official letter of introduction in 1570 enfeoffed Count John IV of Nassau- Saarbrücken his bailiff Johann Streiff Lauenstein with land and a dairy farm in Diedendorf - plus permission, there to build a castle. Diedendorf was one of the seven French speaking villages which were briefly colonized ago by Lorraine Reformed again. The castle was built around 1580. The bailiff came from a small noble family, whose members administrative offices in the county Saarwerden and East Melbourne paused. Johann Streiff, who left in 1588 to build the church of Diedendorf, along with his wife Mary of calibration bought numerous decades; He died in 1595, leaving a daughter and six sons. His daughter Elizabeth married Mathias Steyss de Görnitz pledge to Mr. Lorentzen castle against 1570th One of his sons, Johann Eberhard, was also bailiff of the County of Nassau - Saarwerden and succeeded his father in the castle. A prominent figure in his posterity was " Lady G. " Eva Streiff of Lauenstein, widow of her cousin Philipp Streiff. This drew in 1647 with her two young children from Livonia after Diedendorf to settle in the devastated by the Thirty Years War the castle. The place was 1641-1644 remained uninhabited. The last owner of the castle of succession Streiff was a baroness Charlotte Frédérique Munchausen born Quadt of Landskron (1684-1762) ( parents of Ernst Friedemann von Munchausen ), which in 1722 inherited the castle of her maternal uncle Otto Eberhard Streiff Lauenstein; 1730 they screwed up with her ​​husband, the Duke of Saxony- Weimar Oberhof Meisterernst Friedemann von Munchausen ( 1686-1762 ) to Herrengosserstedt in Weimar and sold the castle Diedendorf 1730 August Wilhelm von Lueder, Vogt of the county.

There followed a succession of owners, fourteen in little more than a century. Finally, the castle was purchased in 1862 by the landowner Simon Striffler and remained in his family until the Second World War. 1944 first, then occupied by the Germans to the Americans, the house was for many years only partially inhabited. Jean Schlumberger, mayor of the village, bought it in 1966 for his daughter Nancy. From her it acquired Jean -Daniel Ludmann, former museum director of the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, in 1977 and restored it fully.

Demographics

Attractions

• The castle dates back to 1570th
• The church was built in 1588.