Lucelle (Haut-Rhin)
Lucelle ( German Luetzel ) with 40 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) the smallest of the 377 municipalities in the department of Haut-Rhin in the Alsace region of France. The place is located in the canton of the arrondissement Ferrette Altkirch. The municipality is a member of the Association of Municipalities Alsatian Jura.
Geography
Lucelle lies directly on the border to the Swiss canton of Jura and its place Lucelle, in the municipality of Pleigne. In the place at about 640 m height springs the Luetzel that the border between France and Switzerland bildet.Nachbargemeinden of Lucelle there are angles to the north, Ligsdorf in the northeast, Kiffis in the east, Pleigne (CH) in the south and Oberlarg in the northwest.
History
Its history is closely connected with the history of the Cistercian monastery of La Petite, which played an important role in the Middle Ages. This is also reflected in the municipal crest showing a monastery church in simplified form.
1801, the monastery buildings were sold to three blacksmiths. The church and other buildings were removed from their stones an ironworks and a foundry was built. Were not removed, the convent building ( lived in it since 1793 artisans and laborers ), the winery with outbuilding, a building complex of the main building and two wings ( in the stables, hay barn, mill, bakery, butcher shop, tannery, laborers and servant flats were housed ) and the Tourist house with its outbuildings. Unbroken remained the orangery and gardens. 1824, the monastery buildings, the newly built factories and ironworks of St- Pierre were sold to the Paravicini.
The community Lucelle was now a major supplier of iron for the French arms production, their strong industrial stocking was reflected in the population figures: by 1820 280 inhabitants, by 1835 320 inhabitants; three-quarters of the population were artisans and laborers. In 1850 there were in Lucelle and St- Pierre ever a blast furnace, the ore it came from both sides of the border.
After about 1860 it came to the decline of the industry, in 1883 the last remaining institutions were closed, later demolished. The plants of L. Paravicini Ironworks (1817-1870), the " King of Iron Lucelle ", had in 1883 by Emanuel Leonhard Paravicini, the father of Mathilde Paravicini, be sold by the Roll'schen iron works because of financial difficulties at the company.