Weitbruch

Wide fracture is a municipality with 2672 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the canton of Haguenau in the department of Bas- Rhin in Alsace region of France. She is a member of the Communauté de communes de la Basse anger.

Geography

The place is passed from the secondary road D 140 and is located 24 km north of Strasbourg and 13 km south of Haguenau in the Upper Rhine Plain. Surrounding municipalities are Haguenau in the north, the south and Brumath Niederschaeffolsheim in the West.

Of the 1,511 hectares of its territory is covered by forest about 600, 750 are used for agriculture and 160 are inhabited. 670 hectares are privately owned.

History

Around the year 743 the place was called Uiccobrocho or Wiccobrocho. Later place names were Wibbruch ( 1166 ), Wipruch ( 1266 ), Witbruch ( 1337), Vitbruch ( 1434 ), and Wibruech. The village got its present name, as the Alemanni in Alsace gained the upper hand.

A noble family which was called from wide fracture occurs first documented in 1166 in appearance. In this document, in a large sale of lands of the Emperor Frederick I " Barbarossa " - " Friderico imperatore regnante " next Gottfried von Haguenau ( Godefridus de Haguenau ) also a Erkenbald or Archibald from wide break ( Erchenboldus de Wibbruch ), called the common with the abbot of St. Blaise Werner ( Wernherus ), represented by the two priors Wolframus and Garfilius the presence of two imperial ministers - " miniserialis imperatoris ", Arnold ( Arnoldus ) and Wicherus, and the knight Dolmarus of Central House ( Dolmarus miles de Mitel House ) the real estate transaction sealed. In the years 1393, 1399 and 1400 documented enters Johannes Scheffer on, which at times refers to himself on the maternal side referring to as " widows son of wide- cut". After his father Lütfried (also Lüthold ) Schäffer ( Schüsser ) was killed at the battle of Sempach reasoned that the Shepherd line in the former county of Hauenstein.

It seems that there was also a male line of those Far fraction which was carrying away the name. To appear in a feudal levy an estate located in Weitbruch which a Joychen Claus von Wipruch, then to his widow Margred 1457 (from 1476 to 1481 ) and then went on to Joichen Hans von Wipruch ( 1483 ). The 1462 recipient called benefices, the monastery of St. George in Haguenau, John of Wipruch, hardly consistent with the aforementioned well, as this would already have been at this time more than 90 years old.

Demographics

Mairie