Rosheim
Rosheim is a town in the Alsace region of France in the department of Bas- Rhin with 4862 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011). The community is a member of the Communauté de communes du Canton de Rosheim.
History
The city was first documented in 778 mentioned as Rodasheim. Municipal law it receives in 1262, coupled with the right to build a city wall. 1303 Rosheim is Imperial City. 1354 is one of the cities that make up the Ten Cities and Towns.
Demographics
Attractions
- Église Saints- Pierre- et- Paul ( Peter and Paul Church ) ( 12th century, crossing tower increased in the 14th century organ by Andreas Silbermann, 1733)
- Église Saint- Étienne ( Stephen's Church ) (18th century bell tower still 12th century )
- Romanesque residential house Maison païenne ( " Heath House " ) (12th century)
- Town Hall (18th century)
- Puits à six Seaux ( "Six bucket fountain" ) (17th century)
- Four gate towers ( 13th and 14th centuries )
- Half-timbered houses (16th century)
- Synagogue, built in 1884 in neo-Romanesque style
Hôtel de ville
Peter and Paul Church
Partner community
Kappelrodeck in Baden- Württemberg is connected in a city partnership with Rosheim.
Personalities
- Heinrich Eggestein (ca. 1415-1488 ), pioneer of printing
- Josel of Rosheim (1476-1554), one of the most important representatives of the Central European Jewry in his time, died in Rosheim.
- Jean -Marie Lehn ( born 1939 ), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1987
- Claude Vasconi (1940-2009), architect