Mortzwiller

Mortzwiller ( German Morzweiler ) is a commune with 328 inhabitants ( 1 January 2011) in the department of Haut-Rhin in the Alsace region. It belongs to the district Thann, to Canton Masevaux and community association Vallée de la Doller et Soultzbach.

Geography

Mortzwiller lies around 20 kilometers west of Mulhouse and Belfort in the north-east of Sundgau on the east side of a wooded mountain range of the Vosges, which largely coincides here with the political border between the regions of Alsace and Franche -Comté and also with the traditional language border.

The street village lies in the valley of the Soultzbach and is surrounded to the north, west and south by the State Forest Forêt de domaniale Masevaux. At the southern edge of the village is the Etang du Vieux Moulin, a pond in the private possession of a fishing association.

In the southwest Mortzwiller borders Petitefontaine, on the west by Leval in the Territoire de Belfort, on the northwest by Masevaux, on the north by Lauw, on the northeast by Sentheim and to the southeast by Soppe -le-Haut in Alsace.

History

The history of the village is closely linked with that of the valley of the Soultzbach. It was ravaged by the plague in 1234, destroyed in 1376 by ​​English troops in 1444 and by the Armagnacs.

The name may be traced back to the name Moritz and is occupied in the 1455 verdict of a knight, when the village formed a community with the immediately adjacent Soppe -le-Haut.

As part of the rule Thann, the village belonged since 1324 through marriage of Joan of Pfirt the Habsburgs and came in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia to France.

Jean Baptiste Joseph Gobel had in the 18th century a small castle in Mortzwiller.

Demographics

Infrastructure

Mortzwiller is developed by the department of road D14b. The nearest motorway is the A36 Autoroute with connections in the direction of Mulhouse and Belfort.