Goxwiller

Goxwiller ( German Goxweiler, alsatian Gogsch'willer ) is a commune with 831 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011) in the department of Bas- Rhin in the Alsace region. It belongs to the district Sélestat - Erstein, for Canton Obernai and founded in 1995, Local Government Association, Piedmont de Barr.

Geography

The community Goxwiller is about three kilometers south of Obernai and 23 kilometers southwest of Strasbourg on the edge of the Vosges. The immediate surroundings of the village is dominated by the wine.

Neighboring communities of Goxwiller are Obernai in the north, Niedernai in the northeast, Valff the southeast, Bourg home in the south and the Holy Stone in the southwest.

History

Goxwiller was first mentioned in 920. It belonged until 1522 to various abbeys, such as that of Niedermünster. Until the French Revolution, the church was then placed under the city of Strasbourg. In the 19th century the wine replaced more and more crops and livestock.

Demographics

Culture and sights

Goxwiller was originally a village street, which consisted mainly of wineries and farmhouses. In the village there are six draw-well (two of them from the 16th century ) and a bakery in the 17th century (142, rue Principale ). The bakery was until the end of the 19th century in operation and was then used as a residence. When she threatened to expire at the end of the 20th century, it was eventually bought by the community, restored and converted into a community center. The fire in the stove is lit at local festivities again to bake bread and Tarte. Also there housed wine press dating from 1669 can be visited.

In the Church of Saint Jean, whose choir tower already partly comes from the Romanesque period, there is an organ by Johann Conrad Sauer from the year 1811. Moreover, the church houses two frescoes from the 15th century, St. Anthony and St. Christophorus represent.

Transport links

Goxwiller lies on the railway line from Strasbourg to Sélestat. The station was demolished in the 1980s and replaced by a breakpoint with shelter. The National Road 422 touches in its course between Strasbourg and Sélestat the community. A few 100 meters east of the village runs the Autobahn A 35 Goxwiller is connected to via exit number 12 this.

Personalities

From 1963 until her death in 2001, lived the painter Hélène de Beauvoir, the sister of Simone de Beauvoir, in a former vineyard house in Goxwiller. The French architect Jacques Albert Brion was born on June 8, 1843 in Goxwiller († 1910 in Strasbourg).

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