Wintzenheim

Wintzenheim ( German: Winzenheim ) is a commune with 7573 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Haut-Rhin. The municipality is situated on the Alsace wine route and is a member of the Communauté d' agglomération de Colmar and the capital of the canton of the same name.

Geography

The community Wintzenheim is located five kilometers west of Colmar. The municipality, which is part of the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park to, extending from the Upper Rhine Valley on the Fechttal (also known as Munster ) up to the heights of the Vosges Mountains south of the fencing, reach the maximum 827 m above sea level.

About the city center, the municipality also includes the villages of Logelbach, La Forge, Saint- Gilles and Chapelle des Bois.

History

The city and its surrounding area was already inhabited in Roman times. In the vicinity of the place remains of a Roman villa and Roman coins have been found.

The oldest written mention dates to the year 786, at that time still under the name Wingisheim. Although the place in 1275, was a fixture him the city rights were denied. Already a winery village, it belonged to the rule Landsberg and thus the Habsburgs. The area was several times awarded as fief in the following centuries: first to the Lords to Rappoltstein, then to the Count of Lupfen and in the 16th century Lazarus of Schwendihotel. 1680 received cavalry General Joseph de Montclar the fief as a reward and was thus ruler over Wintzenheim.

The place belongs to France since the French Revolution, but he was like the rest of Alsace 1871-1919 part of the German Empire.

Demographics

Attractions

  • Hohlandsberg castle, built from 1279 under Rudolf von Habsburg. It is located at the output of the Munster.
  • The neoclassical church of St. Lawrence, built in 1840.

Traffic

From 1885 to 1960 there was a narrow-gauge rail link from Wintzenheim to Colmar, which was built from 1932 in the network of trams in Colmar. Through the village leads the department road D 417, the Colmar through the valley of the Fecht Munster to the Col de la gorge ( canyon pass ) leads to the Vosges ridge.

Community partnership

  • Soest, North Rhine -Westphalia, since 1988

Notable people

  • Joseph Joos (1878-1965), a Catholic activist, German Reichstag, victims of the Nazi regime.
  • General Joseph de Montclar, military governor of Alsace, noble title of Hohlandsbourg
  • Hans Karl Hohberg called Hans Hohberg (* April 21, 1906 in Winzenheim; † 2 November 1968, Leinfelden ) was a German chartered accountant and convicted war criminal at the Nuremberg Trials
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