Montreux-Vieux
Montreux- Vieux ( German Altmünsterol; Alsatian Old Menschtral ) is a commune with 890 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Haut-Rhin in the Alsace region. It belongs to the district Altkirch, for Canton Dannemarie and community association Porte d'Alsace.
Geography
The municipality of Montreux- Vieux is located in the extreme southwest of Alsace on the border region of Franche -Comté. In the southeast of the community of the Rhone-Rhine canal runs in the area of the Burgundian gate between Altkirch and Belfort.
Neighboring communities of Montreux- Vieux are Chavannes -sur- l'Étang in the north, Valdieu - Lutran in the east, in the southeast of Magny, Montreux -Jeune in the south, Montreux -Chateau in the South West and Cunelières and Foussemagne in the northwest.
History
Altmünsterol, first mentioned on June 2, 962 in a deed of Emperor Otto I to the Abbey Andlau, was as part of the rule Münsterol (see Montreux -Chateau ) Bailiwick possession of the Counts of Pfirt and from 1350, the Habsburgs. As their servants the lords of Münsterol owned the place and the important strategic reasons surrounding the Burgundian gate until their extinction in 1560. 1444 the city was devastated by incident Armagnacs. From 1560 up to the upheavals of the French Revolution in 1790 the estate belonged to the Lords of Reinach - Münsterol. 1648 fell place and domination - like the rest of the Habsburg possessions and rights of the Sundgau - to France.
Situated on the language border site was launched in 1871 with the Treaty of Frankfurt, in turn, for strategic reasons, together with the also French-speaking communities Valdieu (German Gottesthal ) and Montreux -Jeune as the eastern part of the former canton Fontaine to the kingdom land Alsace -Lorraine. With this limiting drawing drying the three Montreux were politically and administratively separated, as Montreux -Chateau stayed with France. Altmünsterol experienced in the years to 1914, a strong increase of the population (1871: 294 inhabitants in 1914: 1000 inhabitants). This was due to the fact that the city's train station was expanded to the border station ( station 1 class, shunting and freight station, train depot) and the relevant agencies (border police, customs, post) were settled there. Furthermore, there were industrial enterprises as the cognac distillery Dürr Delamare and the Fungal cannery Laible. During the First World War, the first French army occupied under General Pau at the assault on Mulhouse on August 6, 1914 Location. After the re-integration of France (1919 ) the place lost a part of the meaning gained again. From 1940 until the liberation in 1944 the place belonged again to the German Empire ( Gau Baden- Alsace ), the station for the last time acted as a border station.
- East of the church
- South side of the church
- Water Tower
Demographics
Transport links
Montreux- Vieux has a railway station on the Paris- Mulhouse, this was put into operation on 15 October 1857. At that keep trains of TER TER Alsace and Franche -Comté.
Personalities
- Rossé Joseph, born August 26, 1892, Alsatian Autonomist, MP and politician
- Hans Paetsch, born December 7, 1909, German actor, director and voice actor
- Léon Hegele, born January 30, 1925, a French clergyman, Auxiliary Bishop of Strasbourg