La Wantzenau
La Wantzenau (German and Alsatian dialect Wanzenau " Wonzenöü " ) is a commune ( as at 1 January 2011) with 5837 inhabitants in the department of Bas- Rhin in the Alsace region.
Geography
The community is located about ten kilometers north of Strasbourg at the Petit Ried. It is crossed by the railway Strasbourg- Lauterbourg. In the east it borders on the Rhine and is thus located on the border with Germany. The Ill flows through the idyllic village with many half-timbered houses and led until the 70 years ( until the construction of the barrage Gambsheim ) not far from there across from Diersheim into the Rhine. In the district of La Wantzenau are large-scale nature-based recreation areas. Ried landscapes interspersed with riverine forests. Especially on weekends, it attracts a lot of Strasbourg in these neighboring village, resulting in the high density can be explained at inns.
Toponymy
La Wantzenau means of Au - Saint Wendelin, who comes from Hochfelden. The name was influenced by the German Bug by Paronymie.
Demographics
Economy
1882 here the first Raiffeisen bank in France (now Crédit Mutuel ) was founded.
St. Wendelin
La Wantzenaus medieval history is closely linked with that of the neighboring German town today Honau. The Irish monks on the High Au, then an island in the Rhine, in the Alemannic Christianization erected the monastery, founded in the neighborhood chapels, for example, in the 13th century in Diersheim and mid-15th century in La Wantzenau. Around the year 1469 La Wantzenau independent parish. The church, once as the Honauer monastery church of St. Michael ordained, since the 18th century bears the name of Saint Wendelin. The present church building dates from the 19th century.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Heinz Autenrieth (1906-1984), lawyer, 1960-1966 President of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg
- Max Pfannenstiel (1902-1976), geologist, paleontologist and librarian. Professor at the University of Freiburg